ConferenceCall 2005 04 14

[ontolog] Member Conference Call - Thu 2005-04-14    (BZR)

Conference Call Details    (BZS)

• Subject: [ontolog] member conference call Thu 2005-04-14    (BZT)

• Agenda Comments:    (BZU)
  • ... build rapport; ... sync up; ... distribute, assign or arbitrate virtual ownership of tasks; ... and use it to deal with emergencies. ... plus, member suggested agenda items.    (BZV)
  • 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    (BZW)
  • VNC session (if needed) will be started 5 minutes before the call at: http://vnc2.cim3.net:5800/    (BZX)
    • view-only password: "ontolog"    (BZY)
    • view-and-control pw: to be supplied during session as needed    (BZZ)
  • Wiki page for this call (i.e. this page) is at: http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2005_04_14    (C00)
• Date: Thursday, Apr. 14, 2005    (C01)
• Start Time: 10:30 AM PDT / 1:30 PM EDT World Clock    (C02)
• Expected Call Duration: 1 ~ 1.5 hour    (C03)
• Dial-in Number: 1-702-851-3330 (Las Vegas, Nevada)    (C04)
• Participant Access Code: "686564#"    (C05)

Attendees    (C06)

• Attended:    (C07)
  • DuaneNickull    (C29)
  • PeterYim    (C24)
  • AdamPease    (C2A)
  • KurtConrad    (C2R)
  • BobSmith    (C23)
  • AndersTell    (C28)
  • NicolasRouquette    (C22)
  • DavidWhitten    (C2U)
  • MonicaMartin    (C46)

• Expecting:    (C08)

• Regrets:    (C09)
  • PaulKoch    (C25)
  • LisaSeaburg    (C26)
  • RayFergerson    (C27)
  • JamesDouma (meeting conflict)    (C2O)
  • LeoObrst    (C2P)
  • BillMcCarthy    (C3X)

Agenda Ideas    (C0A)

Agenda & Proceedings    (C0B)

1) Welcome & confirmation of agenda    (C0C)

• KurtConrad took the chair and welcomed everyone.    (C0D)

2) Appointment of secretary to take minutes    (C0E)

• PeterYim volunteered    (C0F)

3) Roll-call of participants    (C0G)

• see above    (C0H)

4) Upcoming meeting & event schedule (near future)    (C0I)

• Nominal meeting types (on a monthly basis):    (C0J)
  • member regular meeting    (C0K)
  • invited speaker session    (C0L)
  • scheduled discussion    (C0M)
  • project review    (C0N)
  • workshop / work session    (C0O)
  • planning    (C0P)

• Invited Speaker Schedule for the next 3~6 months    (C0Q)
  • for Apr. 2005 - MichaelUschold from Boeing - Thu 2005-04-21 - confirmed (-ppy) - see: ConferenceCall_2005_04_21    (C0R)
  • for May. 2005 - MonicaMartin from Sun - Thu 2005-05-12 - confirmed    (C0S)
  • for Jun. 2005 - DavidWhitten & ChrisRichardson from WorldVistA - Thu 2005-06-16 - confirmed (-ppy)    (C0T)
  • for Jul. 2005 - AndersTell of Business Collaboration Toolsmiths, AB (Sweden) - suggested by DuaneNickull - confirmed date: Thu 2005.07.14    (C16)
  • future candidates speakers:    (C0U)
    • LarryReeker of NIST (suggested by SusanTurnbull)    (C0V)
    • SimonBuckinghamShum of the Compendium Institute ( ? ; ref. post from ScottLHolmes & PeterYim's reponse)    (C0W)
    • DougLenat on the Cyc project (suggested by PeterYim)    (C0X)
    • NicolaGuarino on DOLCE, possibly also BillAnderson or ChrisWelty (suggested by PeterYim & PatCassidy)    (C0Y)
  • new suggestions:    (C0Z)
    • a panel with speaker representating: SUMO, OpenCyc Upper Ontology, DOLCE, ... (suggested by PeterYim)    (C10)
      • possibly teaming up with SICoP and their CUO-WG; after independent sessions on Cyc and DOLCE    (C11)
    • Monica: suggest inviting someone from the [regrep] group    (C12)
    • Mark Greaves of DARPA - suggested by NancyFaget and PeterYim - confirmed intent; date to be fixed    (C13)
    • JonBosak of Sun on OASIS Process - suggested (KurtConrad) at our 2005.03.03 Planning Session    (C14)
      • possibility of this rolling into a joint SICoP or CEW-multiple CoP Best Practice event - Jun.2005? (SusanTurnbull)    (C15)
  • 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)    (C17)

• Scheduled Discussions for the next 2 months    (C18)
  • David: maybe we should designate a moderator, and then coordinate the event from there, in a fashion similar to speaker events.    (C19)
  • see: OntologDiscussion    (C1A)
  • more work/discussion on OWL    (C1B)
    • Adam: need OWL & SWRL for OWL ontologies to really be useful    (C1C)
  • NicolasRouquette has a couple of topics lined up too ... we'll talk about those when he is at the call.    (C1D)
    • Nicolas will moderate - Date: Thu 2005.04.28 - Nicolas will post something and solicit responses    (C31)

• Upcoming Events of interest    (C1E)
  • April 7-8, 2005 - Semantic Web Applications for National Security    (C21)
  • Stanford Clinical Informatics seminar series; events on 4/8; 4/15; (4/22 rescheduled) & 4/29.2005 - see: http://clinicalinformatics.stanford.edu/scci_seminars/2004-05.html    (C1F)
    • In particular, MarkMusen will be speaking on Fri 2005.05.27 (was 2005.04.22 - note change of date) on "The Role of Ontologies in the Electronic Health Record." - see: http://clinicalinformatics.stanford.edu/scci_seminars/2004-05.html    (C1G)
  • Mon 2005-04-25 CCTONT work session at Stanford - see: CctRepresentation/WorkSession_2005_04_25_CCT    (C2S)
  • Mon~Wed 2005-04-25~27 - Transforming Healthcare with Information (w/ Information Liquidity) - see: http://www.almaden.ibm.com/institute/agenda.shtml - BobSmith will be there, and will report to the group afterwards    (C2T)

5) Communications, logistics, & work protocols issues    (C1H)

• none    (C3Y)

6) Follow-ups from previous calls    (C1I)

• none    (C3Z)

7) Current Project Status Report    (C1J)

• Status CCT-Representation and UBL-Ontology project work    (C1K)
  • work session coming up (at Stanford) on Mon 2005.04.25 - see: http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?CctRepresentation/WorkSession_2005_04_25_CCT (details coming soon)    (C2K)
    • expected onsite: RayFergerson, OlivierDameron, PeterYim, KurtConrad, ... please add your name here if you plan to join    (C2V)
    • expected to call in: PatCassidy, AdamPease (maybe, will think about it), ... please add your name here if you plan to join    (C2W)

• Status of Protege-KIF project work    (C1L)
  • same as above - work session at Stanford with the Protege team, Mon 2005.04.25    (C2L)

• status of NHIN-RFI & Health-Ont project work    (C1M)
  • ref Brand's input, 35 (out of the 500) responses now available online, which Bob has zipped up    (C2X)
    • availability may be under the 'freedom of information act'    (C2Y)
  • ontolog is tracking the opportunities for now    (C2Z)
  • Bob has a potential vendor    (C30)

• UBL liaison report    (C1N)
  • no report    (C32)

• SICoP liaison report    (C1O)
  • no report    (C33)

• status report from Planning team    (C1P)
  • planning team conference call today (right after this call)    (C2M)
    • LeoObrst cannot join today, but possibly ok on 2005.04.28 same time.    (C2Q)
  • see proceedings of today's session captured at: http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?OntologPlanning_2005#nidC3A    (C40)

8) project work session / discussion    (C1Q)

• not today    (C34)

9) New project proposals    (C1R)

• Anders - UN/CEFACT Modeling Methodology (UMM) - has UML now, OWL is on the list    (C35)
  • sugested that the 4/25 work session at Stanford would be of interest    (C36)
  • also suggested that Ontolog's case at the EIDX panel would be of interest - see: http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2004_12_01#nid4AH    (C37)
  • Nicolas request some pointers to UMM related resources.    (C41)
    • Anders: see - Current version of UMM http://www.unece.org/cefact/umm/umm_index.htm    (C39)

10) Sponsorship and funding    (C1S)

• working with BrandNiemann and MikeDaconta to see if we can get some sponsorship for the production level CCT-Representation / UBL-Ontology work.    (C2N)

11) Other business    (C1T)

12) Next meeting date and adjourn    (C1U)

• call adjourned 11:30am PST    (C1V)
• next call will be on Thu 2005.04.21 starting at 10:30am PST    (C1W)
  • MichaelUschold will be presenting next week - see: http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2005_04_21    (C38)

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 minutes captured in real time on this wiki by PeterYim
 ppy / 2005.04.14 11:31am PST    (C1X)