ConferenceCall 2005 03 24

[ontolog] Member Conference Call - Thu 2005-03-24    (5MS)

Conference Call Details    (5MT)

• Subject: [ontolog] member conference call Thu 2005-03-24    (5MU)

• Agenda Comments:    (5MV)
  • ... build rapport; ... sync up; ... distribute, assign or arbitrate virtual ownership of tasks; ... and use it to deal with emergencies. ... plus, member suggested agenda items.    (5MW)
  • 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    (5MX)
  • VNC session (if needed) will be started 5 minutes before the call at: http://vnc2.cim3.net:5800/    (5MY)
    • view-only password: "ontolog"    (5MZ)
    • view-and-control pw: to be supplied during session as needed    (5N0)
  • Wiki page for this call (i.e. this page) is at: http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2005_03_24    (5N1)
• Date: Thursday, Mar. 24, 2005    (5N2)
• Start Time: 10:30 AM PST / 1:30 PM EST World Clock    (5N3)
• Expected Call Duration: 1 ~ 1.5 hour    (5N4)
• Dial-in Number: 1-702-851-3330 (Las Vegas, Nevada)    (5N5)
• Participant Access Code: "686564#"    (5N6)

Attendees    (5N7)

• Attended:    (5N8)
  • KurtConrad    (5N9)
  • PeterYim    (5NA)
  • AdamPease    (5NB)
  • DavidWhitten    (5NC)
  • MonicaMartin    (5ND)
  • BobSmith (will only join for a while)    (5NE)
  • BillMcCarthy    (5NF)
  • PatCassidy    (5NG)

• Expecting:    (5NH)
  • LisaSeaburg    (5NI)

• Regrets:    (5NJ)
  • AndreCharland    (5NK)

Agenda Ideas    (5NL)

Agenda & Proceedings    (5NM)

1) Welcome & confirmation of agenda    (5NN)

• KurtConrad took the chair and welcomed everyone.    (5NO)

2) Appointment of secretary to take minutes    (5NP)

• PeterYim volunteered    (5NQ)

3) Roll-call of participants    (5NR)

• see above    (5NS)

4) Upcoming meeting & event schedule (near future)    (5NT)

• Nominal meeting types (on a monthly basis):    (5NU)
  • member regular meeting    (5NV)
  • invited speaker session    (5NW)
  • scheduled discussion    (5NX)
  • project review    (5NY)
  • workshop / work session    (5NZ)
  • planning    (5O0)

• Invited OntologSpeaker Schedule for the next 3~6 months    (5O1)
  • for Apr. 2005 - MichaelUschold from Boeing - Thu 2005-04-21 - confirmed (-ppy) - see: ConferenceCall_2005_04_21    (5O2)
  • for May. 2005 - MonicaMartin from Sun - Thu 2005-05-12 - pending date confirmation    (5O3)
  • for Jun. 2005 - DavidWhitten & ChrisRichardson from WorldVistA - Thu 2005-06-16 - confirmed (-ppy)    (5O4)
  • future candidates speakers:    (5O5)
    • LarryReeker of NIST (suggested by SusanTurnbull)    (5O6)
    • SimonBuckinghamShum of the Compendium Institute ( ? ; ref. post from ScottLHolmes & PeterYim's reponse)    (5O7)
    • DougLenat on the Cyc project (suggested by PeterYim)    (5O8)
    • NicolaGuarino on DOLCE, possibly also BillAnderson or ChrisWelty (suggested by PeterYim & PatCassidy)    (5O9)
  • new suggestions:    (5OA)
    • a panel with speaker representating: SUMO, OpenCyc Upper Ontology, DOLCE, ... (suggested by PeterYim)    (5OB)
      • possibly teaming up with SICoP and their CUO-WG; after independent sessions on Cyc and DOLCE    (5OC)
    • Monica: suggest inviting someone from the [regrep] group    (5OD)
    • Mark Greaves of DARPA - suggested by NancyFaget and PeterYim - confirmed intent; date to be fixed    (5OE)
    • JonBosak of Sun on OASIS Process - suggested (KurtConrad) at our 2005.03.03 Planning Session    (5OF)
      • possibility of this rolling into a joint SICoP or CEW-multiple CoP Best Practice event - Jun.2005? (SusanTurnbull)    (5OG)
    • AndersTell of Business Collaboration Toolsmiths, AB (Sweden) - suggested by DuaneNickull - confirmed intent; date to be fixed    (5OH)
  • In view of the great line-up of wonderful speakers, and the strong feedback that our speaker sessions (and the recordings) have really been useful to the community, we could consider doing speaking sessions twice a month - one on the regular Thursdays, and the other on a Monday, Tuesday or Wednesday (outside of the regilar call day) so that people (speaker or audience) who has a standing conflict on Thursdays could be accomodated too. (--suggested by KurtConrad)    (5OI)

• Scheduled OntologDiscussion for the next 2 months    (5OJ)
  • David: maybe we should designate a moderator, and then coordinate the event from there, in a fashion similar to speaker events.    (5OK)
  • work on protege exports - "Issues Associated with Converting Ontologies Between Representations (espcially via protege imports and exports)"    (5OL)
    • tentative date Thu 2005.03.31 - pending availability of a few key players (need at least Pat(ok), Adam(ok), Holger(?) and others from the Protege team(?).)    (5OM)
    • Kurt will moderate the session (Kurt says he is only moderating because he is neutral!)    (5ON)
    • see: OntologDiscussion/OntologiesConversion    (5OO)
  • more work/discussion on OWL    (5OP)
    • Adam: need OWL & SWRL for OWL ontologies to really be useful    (5OQ)
  • NicolasRouquette has a couple of topics lined up too ... we'll talk about those when he is at the call.    (5OR)

• Upcoming Events of interest    (5OS)
  • April 7-8, 2005 - Semantic Web Applications for National Security    (5OT)

• (Kurt alerted us to:) 2005.03.18 at Stanford - Carol Friedman from Columbia on "Natural Language Processing for Clinical Applications: Challenges and Opportunities" - Slides and Archived video available - see: http://clinicalinformatics.stanford.edu/scci_seminars/2004-05.html    (5OU)

5) Communications, logistics, & work protocols issues    (5OV)

• wiki is temporarily disabled for edit (until upgrade is in - ETA in a couple of weeks).    (5OW)
  • Anyone who needs to post to the wiki should call (or e-mail) PeterYim to make arrangements to do so (on a restricted window).    (5OX)

6) Follow-ups from previous calls    (5OY)

• Adam will ping Duane ref setting up the joint call with the CCTS WG    (5OZ)

7) Current Project Status Report    (5P0)

• Status of Protege-KIF project work    (5P1)

• Status CCT-Representation and UBL-Ontology project work    (5P2)
  • Requirements issues (ref: http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?UseCases)    (5P3)
  • Formalization issues    (5P4)
  • UBL Liaison update    (5P5)
  • [CCT-Rep] status report    (5P6)

• status of NHIN-RFI & Health-Ont project work    (5P7)
  • Peter will continue to track progress along with SICoP / BrandNiemann on this    (5P8)

• status report from Planning team    (5P9)
  • Kurt: will get this started soon.    (5PA)

8) project work session / discussion    (5PB)

• invitation by Brand for us to comment on FEA-RMO    (5PC)

• possibility of us making a community response and make a case for the need to map FEA-RMO to an Upper Ontology (like SUMO)    (5PD)

9) New project proposals    (5PE)

10) Sponsorship and funding    (5PF)

11) Other business    (5PG)

12) Next meeting date and adjourn    (5PH)

• call adjourned 12:40 PST    (5PI)
• next call will be on Thu 2005.03.31 starting at 10:30am PST    (5PJ)
  • that will be the discussion on Ontology Conversions with Protege mentioned above, subject to availability of the right people from the Protege team to join us. See: OntologDiscussion/OntologiesConversion    (5PK)

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 minutes captured in real time on this wiki by PeterYim
 ppy / 2005.03.24_11:54am PST    (5PL)