ConferenceCall 2004 08 26

[ontolog] Member Conference Call - Thu 2004-08-26    (303)

Conference Call Details    (304)

• Subject: [ontolog] member conference call Thu 2004-08-26    (305)

• Agenda Comments:    (306)
  • ... build rapport; ... sync up; ... distribute, assign or arbitrate virtual ownership of tasks; ... and use it to deal with emergencies. ... plus, member suggested agenda items.    (307)
  • 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    (308)
  • VNC session (if needed) will be started 5 minutes before the call at: http://vnc2.cim3.net:5800/    (309)
    • view-only password: "ontolog"    (30A)
    • view-and-control pw: to be supplied during session as needed    (30B)
  • Wiki page for this call is at: http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2004_08_26    (30C)
• Date: Thursday, August 26, 2004    (30D)
• Start Time: 10:30 AM Pacific Standard Time    (30E)
• End Time: 11:55 AM Pacific Standard Time    (30F)
• Dial-in Number: 1-702-851-3330 (Las Vegas, Nevada)    (30G)
• Participant Access Code: "0686564#"    (30H)

Attendees    (30I)

• Attended:    (30J)
  • see below    (30K)

• Expecting:    (30L)
  • KurtConrad    (30M)
  • PeterYim (only showing up for a bit; conflict with FHA meeting which I will be attending on behalf of Ontolog)    (30N)
  • AlanStitzer    (30O)
  • MonicaMartin    (30P)
  • BobSmith    (30Q)

• Regrets:    (30R)
  • BoNewman    (30S)

Agenda Ideas    (30T)

• Invited speaker for Decemeber 2004 - MarkMusen - date confirmed (see below). (--ppy)    (30U)

Agenda & Proceedings    (30V)

1) Welcome & confirmation of agenda    (30W)

• Adam took the chair and welcomed everyone.    (30X)

2) Appointment of secretary to take minutes    (30Y)

• Kurt volunteered    (30Z)

3) Roll-call of participants    (310)

• PeterYim    (311)
• KurtConrad    (312)
• AdamPease    (313)
• PatCassidy    (314)
• BobSmith    (315)
• MonicaMartin    (316)

4) Upcoming / Standing meeting schedule (this & next month)    (317)

• suggested time-table (on a monthly basis):    (318)
  • Week 1: Continue planning work    (319)
  • Week 2: Guest speaker    (31A)
  • Week 3: Project review    (31B)
  • Week 4: Workshop    (31C)

• Ontolog speakers for the next few months (follow-up by)    (31D)
  • MichaelGruninger - September 2004, Thu 2004-09-16 - confirmed (EvanWallace)    (31E)
    • Peter asked for a title and abstract    (31F)
    • Michael provided a list of possible topics, Peter suggested focusing on PSL with a little bit of info on first-order logic    (31G)
    • Adam suggests focusing on PSL, as we have already had presentations on logic    (31H)
  • ChrisMenzel - October 2004, date? (AdamPease)    (31I)
  • ChrisWelty - status? (BillMcCarthy)    (31J)
  • MarkMusen - December 9, 2004 - confirmed (PeterYim)    (31K)
    • Mark has confirmed the December date    (31L)

5) Communications, logistics, & work protocols issues    (31M)

• No topics discussed    (31N)

6) Status CCT-Representation and UBL-Ontology project work    (31O)

• [CCT-Rep] status report    (31P)
• Requirements issues (ref: http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?UseCases)    (31Q)
• Formalization issues    (31R)
• UBL Liaison update    (31S)

• No activity during the last week. The need to focus on contracts is taking time away from this activity.    (31T)
• Beyond the ontology, other deliverables include articulating a business case. Peter has set up wiki pages to support these parallel activities    (31U)

8) Status of Protege-KIF project work    (31V)

• Pat has not done any more work on this in the last week.    (31W)
• Adam has been making improvements to the Sigma system (Runs on XP, 2000, Linux. Not sure about Win98)    (31X)
  • Added Automated Contradiction and Redundancy Checker (background process which can be run)    (31Y)
  • Not sure what caused changes to configuration files    (31Z)
  • HOPPER server at CIM3 (which serves VCN2 & SIGMA2) has just been upgraded (doubled its memory)    (320)

9) New project proposal(s)    (321)

• No topics discussed    (322)

10) Sponsorship and funding    (323)

• No topics discussed    (324)

11) Other business    (325)

• Planning a face-to-face in December 1st time period    (326)
  • Should discuss next week    (327)
  • Need to find a place to put this in the standing agenda    (328)

12) Next meeting date and adjourn    (329)

• Adam will not be available    (32A)
• Monica notes mention of ontologies in a W3C policy and constraints discussion. They are accepting position papers through first week of September and holding a workshop in October. Papers only need to be 5 pages (summary/abstract papers)    (32B)

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 minutes captured in real time on this wiki by KurtConrad    (32C)