ConferenceCall 2004 12 16

[ontolog] Member Conference Call - Thu 2004-12-16    (4D7)

Conference Call Details    (4D8)

• Subject: [ontolog] member conference call Thu 2004-12-16    (4D9)

• Agenda Comments:    (4DA)
  • ... build rapport; ... sync up; ... distribute, assign or arbitrate virtual ownership of tasks; ... and use it to deal with emergencies. ... plus, member suggested agenda items.    (4DB)
  • besides our regular agenda items, the key themes of this call will be (a) post EIDX "Semantic Harmonization" session follow-up, and (b) an attempt to start a new community initiative to contribute to the (US) National Health Information Network RFI (which is due by Jan. 18, 2005.)    (4DC)
  • 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    (4DD)
  • VNC session (if needed) will be started 5 minutes before the call at: http://vnc2.cim3.net:5800/    (4DE)
    • view-only password: "ontolog"    (4DF)
    • view-and-control pw: to be supplied during session as needed    (4DG)
  • Wiki page for this call (i.e. this page) is at: http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2004_12_16    (4DH)
• Date: Thursday, Dec. 16, 2004    (4DI)
• Start Time: 10:30 AM PST / 1:30 PM EST World Clock    (4DJ)
• Expected Call Duration: 1 ~ 1.5 hour    (4DK)
• Dial-in Number: 1-702-851-3330 (Las Vegas, Nevada)    (4DL)
• Participant Access Code: "686564#"    (4DM)

Attendees    (4DN)

• Attended:    (4DO)
  • KurtConrad    (4DP)
  • PeterYim    (4DQ)
  • AdamPease    (4DR)
  • BobSmith    (4DS)
  • NatashaNoy - Protege, SMI (first 30 minutes only; has to go to another meeting after that)    (4DT)
  • NicolasRouquette    (4DU)

• Expecting:    (4DV)
  • ScottHolmes (interest in EIDX response only; not NHIN-RFI)    (4DW)
  • SamsonTu - Protege, SMI    (4DX)

• Regrets:    (4DY)
  • MarkMusen    (4DZ)
  • JackHoward (schedule conflict)    (4E0)
  • PaulKoch (schedule conflict, but do keep me posted as to developments in this area)    (4E1)
  • MonicaMartin (at BPEL meeting in NY)    (4E2)
  • SusanTurnbull (at CIOC meeting)    (4E3)
  • SteveRay    (4E4)
  • BrandNiemann (at CIOC meeting)    (4E5)
  • BoNewman    (4E6)

Agenda Ideas    (4E7)

• follow-up actions post EIDX "Semantic Harmonization" session delivery.    (4E8)
  • suggest we make a response, due by Fri 2005-01-21, to the request for comments on CCTS v2.01 (ref. post)    (4E9)

• putting together community efforts to make a response, due by Tue 2005-01-18, to the NHIN ("National Health Information Network) RFI    (4EA)
  • suggest those who are interested to contribute to US government health related work, and in particular, those who had indicated interest to participate earlier, to make sure they attend (or send representatives to) this call.    (4EB)
  • it is recommended that those who are interested to participate to review the documents cited below prior to joining in at this call, to make the best use of our time in the brainstorming session.    (4EC)

Agenda & Proceedings    (4ED)

1) Welcome & confirmation of agenda    (4EE)

• KurtConrad took the chair and welcomed everyone.    (4EF)

2) Appointment of secretary to take minutes    (4EG)

• PeterYim volunteered    (4EH)

3) Roll-call of participants    (4EI)

• see above    (4EJ)

4) Upcoming meeting & event schedule (near future)    (4EK)

• suggested standing schedule (on a monthly basis):    (4EL)
  • Week 1: Continue planning work    (4EM)
  • Week 2: Guest speaker    (4EN)
  • Week 3: Project review    (4EO)
  • Week 4: Workshop    (4EP)

•    (4EQ)
  • future candidates speakers -    (4ER)
    • MichaelUschold (EvanWallace)    (4ES)
    • ConradBock (NIST) on UML2/OCL - Q1/2005 (PeterYim)    (4ET)
    • LarryReeker of NIST (suggested by SusanTurnbull)    (4EU)
    • DuaneNickull (suggested by KurtConrad)    (4EV)
    • SimonBuckinghamShum of the Compendium Institute ( ? ; ref. post from ScottHolmes & PeterYim's reponse)    (4EW)

•    (4EX)
  • in view of the 2005-01-18 deadline for the NHIN-RFI submission, and the 2005-01-21 deadline for the CCTS response, suggest we schedule our monthly speaker for Jan. 2005 for Thu 2005-01-27, i.e. 4th Thursday, instead of the usual 2nd Thursday. (--PeterYim)    (4EY)
  • Peter will contact Conrad Bock to see if he can speak on 2005.01.27    (4EZ)

5) Communications, logistics, & work protocols issues    (4F0)

• try take the initiative, start a thread, and (at a later time) reorganize the knwoledge onto a topic specific wiki page.    (4F1)

6) Follow-ups from previous calls    (4F2)

• a review of the 2004-12-01 EIDX "Semantic Harmonization" panel session (ref: http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2004_12_01)    (4F3)
  • follow-up action items    (4F4)
    • possible representation at the next EIDX panel on the same topic - April 12-14, 2005 at HP, Houston, Tx    (4F5)
    • reinforcing (and evangelizing) our case of "getting eBusiness standards development efforts to adopt an ontological engineering approach."    (4F6)
      • putting together a response to the request for comments on CCTS v2.01 (ref. post) (see below)    (4F7)
        • note that this is due by Fri 2005-01-21    (4F8)
    • post 2004-12-01 CCT-Rep project work (discussion below)    (4F9)

• a review of the 2004-12-09 MarkMusen talk, the process, etc. - ref: http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2004_12_09    (4FA)
  • review/comment on the joint audience with SICoP for the MarkMusen talk    (4FB)
  • it went really well! Got very positive responses and appreciaitons from the SICoP people too!    (4FC)

• exploring possibilities in a joint effort to contribute to the federal health architecture (and/or related subject matter) - ref: our Joint SICoP-Ontolog Call of 2004-08-12    (4FD)
  • discussion below    (4FE)

7) Current Project Status Report    (4FF)

• Status of Protege-KIF project work    (4FG)

• Status CCT-Representation and UBL-Ontology project work    (4FH)
  • Requirements issues (ref: http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?UseCases)    (4FI)
  • Formalization issues    (4FJ)
  • UBL Liaison update    (4FK)
  • [CCT-Rep] status report    (4FL)

8) New project proposals    (4FM)

• NHIN-RFI project    (4FN)
  • important DATE: Responses should be submitted to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONCHIT), on or before 5 p.m. EST on January 18, 2005.    (4FO)
  • since we have more than 3 people supporting the project - we do have a new project now!    (4FP)

• putting together a response to the request for comments on CCTS v2.01 (ref. post)    (4FQ)
  • Kurt and Adam will decide if they could pull the right effort together (constraint is essentially their own, and others' available bandwidth in short order)    (4FR)
  • they'll contact DuaneNickull and possibly AlanStitzer too for guidance and involvement    (4FS)

9) NHIN-RFI project work session    (4FT)

• putting together community efforts to contribute to the NHIN ("National Health Information Network") RFI    (4FU)
  • link to NHIN-RFI (courtesy SusanTurnbull)    (4FV)
  • link to NHIN-RFI-FAQ (courtesy BobSmith)    (4FW)
  • the RFI Announcement page is at: http://www.hhs.gov/healthit/rfi.html    (4FX)
  • a concise summary of Issues is at: http://wfs.cgu.edu/lafkyd/cgu-kroch.pdf    (4FY)
• Project overview - by BobSmith (who attended the 2004-12-06 NHIN-RFI Technical Assitance Conference Call given by Dr. David Brailer)    (4FZ)
  • Key theme was "interoperability" and discovering new ways to achieve that    (4G0)
  • also to be noted is that this is not yet funded and not an RFP ... more a discovery of gaps and opportunities (with Dr. Brailer's team of 6 and an extended virtual community)    (4G1)
  • collaboration between the government sector and external contributors    (4G2)

• NHIN-RFI project brainstorm    (4G3)
  • suggested we should have another conference call next Tue or Wed on this    (4G4)

• ref Bob's breakdown: http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?NhinRfi#nid0114, Bob's suggestion on who should take up the details of each segment:    (4G5)
  • (A) - SMI contingent    (4G6)
  • (B) - Kurt, Bo & Bob    (4G7)
  • (C) - partly Kurt, Bo & Bob    (4G8)
  • (D) - NIST & SICoP contingent; possibly Adam    (4G9)
  • (E) - possibly NIST & SICoP contingent too    (4GA)

• initial plan, team & members    (4GB)
  • BobSmith will be our project manager (unless other people have alternatives to suggest within the next 5 days, in which case we will haev the project team deliberate.)    (4GC)
  • will add following people to the [health-ont] forum distribution list:    (4GD)
    • everyone on or expected at this call, plus those who sent in their regrets but indicated that they wanted to be in the loop.    (4GE)
      • that includes: BobSmith, MarkMusen, NatashaNoy, SamsonTu, SteveRay, KurtConrad, BoNewman, AdamPease, NicolasRouquette, PaulKoch, SusanTurnbull, BrandNiemann & PeterYim. (email PeterYim if you desire otherwise.)    (4GF)

• capture inputs into the project wiki page at: NhinRfi    (4GG)

10) Sponsorship and funding    (4GH)

• item not discussed    (4GI)

11) Other business    (4GJ)

• Nicolas alluded to similar RFI's from NASA    (4GK)
  • the Ontolog community would be interested to pursue if it is relevant to our mission of trying to move ontological engineering into the main stream    (4GL)
  • Nicolas will look into that and try to coordinate    (4GM)

12) Next meeting date and adjourn    (4GN)

• Bob will organize a conference call either on next Tue or Wed 2004.12.21 or 22 for a NH)N-RFI workshop (watch out on the forum postings.)    (4GO)
• next call Thu 2004.12.23 10:30am PST will be our CCTS-response workshop (Kurt and Adam, at leasat, will be able to make it).    (4GP)
• Breaking for the year-end holidays - no calls for 2004.12.30    (4GQ)
• call adjourned 11:33am PST    (4GR)

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 minutes captured in real time on this wiki by PeterYim
 ppy / 2004.12.16 11:30am PST    (4GS)