ConferenceCall 2004 06 24

[ontolog] Member Conference Call - Thu 2004-06-24    (2CS)

Conference Call Details    (2CT)

• Subject: [ontolog] member conference call Thu 2004-06-24    (2CU)
• Comments/Agenda:    (2CV)
  • Agenda Comments: ... build rapport; ... sync up; ... distribute, assign or arbitrate virtual ownership of tasks; ... and use it to deal with emergencies. ... plus, member suggested agenda items.    (2CW)
  • please post any suggested agenda items to the call wiki page and upload any material to be shared to the list, to the wiki or by WebDAV upload prior to the meeting    (2CX)
  • VNC session (if needed) will be started 5 minutes before the call at: http://vnc2.cim3.net:5800/    (2CY)
    • view-only password: "ontolog"    (2CZ)
    • view-and-control pw: to be supplied during session as needed    (2D0)
  • To contribute, and during the call, please access the wiki page at: http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2004_06_24    (2D1)
• Date: Thursday, Jun 24, 2004    (2D2)
• Start Time: 10:30 AM Pacific Standard Time    (2D3)
• End Time: 11:55 AM Pacific Standard Time    (2D4)
• Dial-in Number: 1-702-851-3330 (Las Vegas, Nevada)    (2D5)
• Participant Access Code: "0686564#"    (2D6)

Attendees    (2D7)

• Attended:    (2D8)
  • KurtConrad    (2D9)
  • PeterYim    (2DA)
  • AdamPease    (2DB)
  • PatCassidy    (2DC)
  • BillMcCarthy    (2DD)

• Expecting:    (2DE)
  • PeterYim    (2DF)

• Regrets:    (2DG)
  • MonicaMartin (Traveling and in a F2F this week.)    (2DH)
  • BobSmith (on the road)    (2DI)

Agenda Ideas    (2DJ)

• Programming the July 2004 Face-to-face Wokrshop in Washington DC. Ref: http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?OntologWorkshop_July_2004    (2DK)
  • discussing the SICoP-Ontolog joint meeting draft agenda    (2DL)
  • discussing the NIST-Ontolog workshop draft agenda    (2DM)
• CCTONT progress report    (2DN)

Agenda & Proceedings    (2DO)

1) Welcome    (2DP)

• KurtConrad took the chair and welcomed everyone.    (2DQ)

2) Appointment of secretary to take minutes    (2DR)

• PeterYim volunteered    (2DS)

3) Roll-call of participants    (2DT)

• see above    (2DU)

4) Upcoming / Standing meeting schedule (this month)    (2DV)

• Week 1: Continue planning work    (2DW)
• Week 2: Guest speaker    (2DX)
  • Bill will contact Chris Welty, both to invite him as the speaker for August, and also to invite him to come to our workshop session at Protege / NIH    (2DY)
  • Pat suggested, for a future month, inviting MichaelGruninger of NIST / Univ. of Maryland on PSL. Everyone agreed.    (2DZ)
• Week 3: Project review    (2E0)
• Week 4: Workshop    (2E1)

• July 2004 face-to-face    (2E2)
  • Bob-Kurt posted the agenda for the workshop at Protege. See; http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?OntologWorkshop_July_2004#nid0143    (2E3)
  • On the Joint SICoP-Ontolog Meeting, Peter will be getting the draft out today or tomorrow. Will try to finalize and publish early next week.    (2E4)
    • Pat Cassidy forwarded from Brand Niemann a suggestion for the agenda:    (2E5)

•    (2E7)
  • On the NIST meeting, what do we want to do:    (2E8)
    • find out what ontology related work they are doing    (2E9)
    • build a strategic working relationship    (2EA)
    • see how their existing PSL work can align with our SUMO-based work    (2EB)
  • the NSF Intelligent Manufacturing workshop is being postponed (possibly to September; will be either 9/14 or 10/17).    (2EC)
    • Bill noted that there will be a CEFACT meeting in Washington the week of 9/13-17/2004    (2ED)

• We need to encourage more people to show up at the F2F, especially those who are local to the Washington Area.    (2EE)
  • Kurt will make a post to that effect    (2EF)
  • Request, also, that LeoObrst might also try to get people from MITRE who are in the community to join us    (2EG)
  • We want them (even if they are not registering for the Protege workshop) to either join us at the SICoP-Ontolog joint meeting or the NIST meeting    (2EH)
  • or even some additional/ad hoc function we could come up with, if the response is overwhelming.    (2EI)

5) Communications, logistics, & work protocols    (2EJ)

• Adam and Kurt worked out logictics on our borrowing Adam's mic-mixer for the July workshop -- that will be Sat evening 6/26/04.    (2EK)

6) Requirements (http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?UseCases)    (2EL)

• not discussed    (2EM)

7) ubl-ontology Formalization issues    (2EN)

• not discussed    (2EO)

8) Status of Protege-KIF project work    (2EP)

• no update; still porting to Protege v2.1    (2EQ)

9) Status of CCT-Representation project work    (2ER)

• Adam had created a mapping of the CCT types to SUMO; working with GarretMinakawa of Oracle    (2ES)
  • CCTONT v0.4 will be released later this week or early next week for review and comment by the ontolog community    (2ET)
  • we are hoping to be at CCTONT v0.6 by the time of the Protege workshop, and open that up to review and comments by a larger ontology community    (2EU)
• Peter slicited contributed to the wiki pages that have been started that is aimed at collected comments and insights from these exercise    (2EV)

10) Sponsorship and funding    (2EW)

• not discussed    (2EX)

11) Other business    (2EY)

• none    (2EZ)

12) Next meeting date and adjourn    (2F0)

• call adjourned 11:15am PDT    (2F1)
• next call Thu 2004.07.01 10:30 PDT    (2F2)

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 minutes captured in real time on this wiki by PeterYim
 ppy / 2004.06.24 11:55 PDT    (2F3)