ConferenceCall 2004 07 15

[ontolog] Member Conference Call - Thu 2004-07-15    (2K3)

Conference Call Details    (2K4)

• Subject: [ontolog] member conference call Thu 2004-07-15    (2K5)
• Comments/Agenda:    (2K6)
  • 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.    (2K7)
  • 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    (2K8)
  • VNC session (if needed) will be started 5 minutes before the call at: http://vnc2.cim3.net:5800/    (2K9)
    • view-only password: "ontolog"    (2KA)
    • view-and-control pw: to be supplied during session as needed    (2KB)
  • To contribute, and during the call, please access the wiki page at: http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2004_07_15    (2KC)
• Date: Thursday, July 15, 2004    (2KD)
• Start Time: 10:30 AM Pacific Standard Time    (2KE)
• End Time: 11:55 AM Pacific Standard Time    (2KF)
• Dial-in Number: 1-702-851-3330 (Las Vegas, Nevada)    (2KG)
• Participant Access Code: "0686564#"    (2KH)

Attendees    (2KI)

• Attended:    (2KJ)
  • PatCassidy    (2KK)
  • PeterYim    (2KL)
  • BobSmith    (2KM)
  • AdamPease    (2KN)
  • KurtConrad    (2KO)
  • MonicaMartin    (2KP)

• Expecting:    (2KQ)

• Regrets:    (2KR)
  • RobertGarigue    (2KS)
  • AdrianWalker    (2KT)

Agenda Ideas    (2KU)

• follow-up items from the 2nd F2F OntologWorkshop_July_2004 (Washington, DC., July 6~9, 2004)    (2KV)

•    (2KW)
  • schedule the follow-up joint conference call with SICoP    (2KX)

•    (2KY)
  • develop a "bridge" between the Shared Actionable Guidance Environment (SAGE PROJECT) and SICoP-NIST Health Care Policies (And SUMO-KIF Influences) --BobSmith    (2KZ)
    • What if DoJ says "RESTORE FUNDING"?    (2L0)
    • What if DoJ says "END PROJECT"?    (2L1)
    • What if DoJ says "Wait another cycle or two...."?    (2L2)

Agenda & Proceedings    (2L3)

1) Welcome    (2L4)

• BobSmith took the chair and welcomed everyone.    (2L5)

2) Appointment of secretary to take minutes    (2L6)

• PeterYim volunteered    (2L7)

2a) Roll-call of participants    (2L8)

• see above    (2L9)

3) Review of the 2nd Ontolog F2F Workshop & Meetings    (2LA)

• BobSmith reviewed the F2F workshops and meetings    (2LB)
  • all the workshop and meetings were excellent and productive    (2LC)
  • Adam: would like to see action items ...    (2LD)

• follow-up items from the 2nd F2F OntologWorkshop_July_2004 (Washington, DC., July 6~9, 2004):    (2LE)
  • Pat's follow-up: Children's health ontology (ref BrandNiemann / PatCassidy discussion)    (2LF)
  • Bob's follow-up: NASA's TRL (Technology Readiness Level) Framework - comment brought up during discussion with SteveRay    (2LG)
    • Bob suggests that this group could take a look too!    (2LH)
  • Bob's initiating conversation with the Protege people on SAGE:    (2LI)
    • see above    (2LJ)
  • Peter's followup: schedule a joint call with SICoP    (2LK)
  • BrandNiemann has a call for paper -- Peter will forward that to the list    (2LL)

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

• Continue planning work    (2LN)
• Guest speaker    (2LO)
  • Aug'04 speaker -- candidate: Chris Welty-IBM -- awaiting feedback from BillMcCarthy    (2LP)
  • Sep'04 speaker -- candidate: Michael Gruninger-NIST -- awaiting feedback from EvanWallace    (2LQ)
  • Candidates: Robert Garigue (enterprise ontologies); Mike Genesereth (articulate, theoretical); Pat Hayes (exciting!); Chris Menzel (seminal paper on SUO)    (2LR)
    • we'll try asking Chris Menzel first -- AdamPease will go ask    (2LS)
• Project review    (2LT)
  • item not covered during the call.    (2LU)
• Workshop    (2LV)
  • item not covered during the call.    (2LW)

• schedule the follow-up joint conference call with SICoP    (2LX)
  • candidate dates?    (2LY)
    • believe SICoP meets f2f on the 3rd Wednesdays pm (EST) of every month    (2LZ)
    • we (ontolog) "meet" virtually every Thursday am (PST) on a weekly basis    (2M0)
  • Peter: how about making this a regular event - every other month?    (2M1)
    • maybe we can discuss this at the next joint call.    (2M2)
  • Pat will try to follow-up with Jie-Hong Morrison to see if SICoP's first white paper is available    (2M3)

5) Communications, logistics, & work protocols    (2M4)

•    (2M5)
  • Pat: might work on importing KIF into Protege-OWL rather than straight Protege    (2M6)

6) Requirements (http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?UseCases)    (2M7)

•    (2M8)
  • item not covered during the call.    (2M9)

7) ubl-ontology Formalization issues    (2MA)

•    (2MB)
  • item not covered during the call.    (2MC)

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

•    (2ME)
  • item not covered during the call.    (2MF)

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

•    (2MH)
  • item not covered during the call.    (2MI)

10) Sponsorship and funding    (2MJ)

• Pat mentioned some of BrandNiemann's activities that he learned about (especially SBIR, and seed funding related), which are detailed at http://componenttechnology.org    (2MK)

11) Other business    (2ML)

• Peter: for everyone's information, some of the other eGov CoP activites and content can be accessed via http://colab.cim3.net    (2MM)

12) Next meeting date and adjourn    (2MN)

• next call Thu 2004.07.22 10:30am PST    (2MO)
• call adjourned 11:36 am PST    (2MP)

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 minutes first captured in real time on this wiki by PeterYim
 ppy / 2004.07.15 11:36 am PDT    (2MQ)