ConferenceCall 2006 01 05

[ontolog] Member Conference Call - Thu 2006-01-05    (J06)

Conference Call Details    (J07)

• Subject: [ontolog] member conference call Thu 2006-01-05    (J08)

• Agenda Comments:    (J09)
  • ... build rapport; ... sync up; ... distribute, assign or arbitrate virtual ownership of tasks; ... and use it to deal with emergencies. ... plus, member suggested agenda items.    (J0A)
  • 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    (J0B)
  • VNC session (if needed) will be started 5 minutes before the call at: http://vnc2.cim3.net:5800/    (J0C)
    • view-only password: "ontolog"    (J0D)
    • view-and-control pw: to be supplied during session as needed    (J0E)
  • Wiki page for this call (i.e. this page) is at: http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2006_01_05    (J0F)
• Date: Thursday, Jan. 5, 2006    (J0G)
• Start Time: 10:30 AM PST / 1:30 PM EST / 18:30 UTC World Clock    (J0H)
• Expected Call Duration: 1 ~ 1.5 hour    (J0I)
• Dial-in Number: 1-702-851-3330 (Las Vegas, Nevada)    (J0J)
• Participant Access Code: "686564#"    (J0K)

Attendees    (J0L)

• Attended:    (J0M)
  • BobSmith    (J3M)

• Expecting:    (J0N)
  • KurtConrad (chair)    (J0O)
  • SteveRay    (J3K)
  • EMichaelMaximilien    (J3L)
  • ...(add your name here)...''    (J0P)

• Regrets:    (J0Q)
  • PeterYim    (J0R)

Agenda Ideas    (J0S)

• ...(add suggested items here)...    (J0T)

Agenda & Proceedings    (J0U)

Call cancelled due to lack of quorum. All following agenda items postponed.    (J4E)

1) Welcome & confirmation of agenda    (J0V)

• _____ took the chair and welcomed everyone.    (J0W)

2) Appointment of secretary to take minutes    (J0X)

• _____ volunteered    (J0Y)

3) Roll-call of participants    (J0Z)

• see above    (J10)

4) Upcoming meeting & event schedule (near future)    (J11)

• Reference: Nominal meeting types (on a monthly basis):    (J12)
  • member regular meeting    (J13)
  • invited speaker session    (J14)
  • scheduled discussion    (J15)
  • project review    (J16)
  • workshop / work session    (J17)
  • planning    (J18)

• Scheduled Ontolog Events    (J19)
  • Thu Jan. 12, 2006 - LeoObrst - "What is an ontology? - A Briefing on the Range of Semantic Models" - confirmed (PeterYim)    (J1A)
  • Thu Feb. 2, 2006 - NicolaGuarino - "DOLCE" (to-be-finalized) - confirmed (LeoObrst)    (J1B)
  • Thu Feb. 9, 2006 - AsumanDogac - "Exploiting ebXML Registry Semantics in the eHealth Domain" - confirmed (MonicaMartin)    (J1C)
  • Thu Mar. 16, 2006 - UpperOntologySummit - Moderator: SteveRay - organizing committee formed and working on it    (J1D)

• Invited Speaker Schedule for the next 3~6 months    (J1E)
  • Candidate -    (J1F)
    • SimonBuckinghamShum of the Compendium Institute ( ? ; ref. post from ScottLHolmes & PeterYim's response)    (J1G)
    • LarryReeker of NIST (suggested by SusanTurnbull)    (J1H)
    • John Sowa (suggested by BillMcCarthy)    (J1I)
  • other suggestions:    (J1J)
    • Monica: suggest inviting someone from the [regrep] group    (J1K)
    • Rex suggsted we should also invite UDDI and XMDR people, and possibly to have all three parties (regrep, uddi & xmdr) on a panel    (J1L)
    • Peter also suggested that we should invite Dieter Fensel to talk to us some time    (J1M)
    • Rex / Peter: XMDR - BruceBargmeyer or someone from his XMDR team    (J1N)
    • PeterYim / ElisaKendall: PatHayes, DeborahMcGuinness    (J1O)
    • To be brought up for discussion:    (J1P)
      • ChrisMenzel: BillAndersen    (J1Q)
      • BrandNiemann / MarkMusen / PeterYim: Frank Hartel (NIH/NCI)    (J1R)
      • BrandNiemann / PeterYim: RoyRoebuck    (J1S)
      • DuaneNickull: suggesting candidates from Microsoft - Phil Berstein & Sergey Melnik - ref: http://ontolog.cim3.net/forum//ontolog-forum/2005-08/msg00027.html    (J1T)
      • DuaneNickull: EricMiller, Tim Berners-Lee of W3C    (J1U)
      • ChrisMenzel & PeterYim: ChrisMenzel some time early 2006 - on some of the work he is doing at Boeing)    (J1V)
      • PeterBrown & PeterYim (new!): PeterBrown some time early 2006 - on the EU project that PeterBrown has been working on in Austria: of building an "eGovernment Resources Network" - the issues relating to handling the exchange of reference information about eGovernment services across the continent - in many languages. This could serve as an interesting case study of what we are looking for from so-called "semantic web services".    (J1W)
      • BrandNiemann (new! input/2005.10.15): EricPeterson - who's been working on an OWL version of the FEA-DRM and who will lead the COSMO development subgroup in the newly formed SICoP / ONTAC-WG    (J1X)
      • MillsDavis (new! / 2005.11.26) - Conor Shankey (CEO, Visual Knowledge)    (J1Y)
      • PeterYim (new! / 2005.11.28) - AdamCheyer, SRI, on the CALO project    (J1Z)
      • PeterYim (new! Prompted by Doug Lenat's talk) - MikeGenesereth (director of the Stanford Logic Group)    (J20)
      • BobSmith / PeterYim / EMichaelMaximilien (new! / 2006.01.09) - TomGruber    (J3N)
      • suggest we also try to invite candidate speakers to join us at weekly calls and other ontolog events so that they get more familiar with the community and vice versa    (J21)

• Scheduled Discussions for the next 2 months - candidates:    (J22)
  • Rex: possibility of working with Duane on a follow-up to the last SOA discussion    (J23)
  • Rex suggsted we should also invite UDDI and XMDR people, and possibly to have all three parties (regrep, uddi & xmdr) on a panel    (J24)
  • Adam: need OWL & SWRL for OWL ontologies to really be useful    (J25)
  • NicolasRouquette -- other topics lined up?    (J26)
  • Other candidates:    (J27)
    • Rex: propose "Emergency Response"    (J28)
    • Kurt: we should revisit "CCTS ontology" for Nov. (even Sep.) - we'll talk to Duane again if he shows up next week; if he doesn't Kurt, will ping Duane.    (J29)
    • Anders: we should have a "Tools / Testing" discussion    (J2A)
    • Kurt: "on metamodels, independent of the representation" (at a level that allows us to avoid the language war)    (J2B)
      • Bob: as a segway into things like pi-calculus, tec.    (J2C)
    • PeterYim: "moving from data standards to data-model- and semantic-model-driven eBusiness standards"    (J2D)
      • candidate panelists: BruceBarqmeyer, MarkCrawford, ElisaKendall, AdamPease, MikeDaconta, JimHendler, SteveRay (moderator?)    (J2E)
      • maybe a joint SICoP-Ontolog event, as part of another Collaborative Expedition Workshop?    (J2F)
    • more session for the "Ontolgy Applications and Implementations" series    (J2G)

• Upcoming Events of interest    (J2H)
  • SusanTurnbull's CEW#47 - Tue 2006.01.24 at NSF (Ballston, VA) & via Remote Access - see: ColabWiki:ExpeditionWorkshop/AdvancingCredibleCommitments_AgileSensing_BootstrappingServiceOrientedArchitecture_2006_01_24    (J3J)

5) Communications, logistics, & work protocols issues    (J2I)

6) Follow-ups from previous calls    (J2J)

• Reveiw of the Thu 2005.12.15 "Ontolgy Applications and Implementations" session    (J2K)
  • what was good    (J2L)
  • what needs improvement    (J2M)
  • how would we do it differently next time    (J2N)
  • other inputs    (J2O)

• session with UN/CEFACT on CCTS 3.0 recommendations    (J2P)
  •    (J2Q)
    • they are interested to have us present at their Conference on Mar. 13~17, 2006 in Vancouver, Canada (partial conflict with the UpperOntologySummit of Thu 2006.03.16)    (J2R)
    • would be wonderful if we can do a "What is an Ontology?" like what Leo is going to present on Jan. 12, 2006    (J2S)
      • we should invite them [attn: Kurt]    (J2T)

• Presenting at the OASIS Symposium 2006 (9-12 May 2006, San Francisco, CA) - Proposal submission deadline: 20 December 2005    (J2U)
  • Duane and Rex are submitting, requesting that they cover our (Ontolog) work as a sidebar    (J2V)
  • anyone from here going to present?    (J2W)

• Bob and Nicolas will work on the ontological lessons learned in our exercise on RegularConferenceCall scheduling -- (Bob / Nicolas - please bring closure to this item)    (J2X)

7) Current Project Status Report    (J2Y)

• Status CCT-Representation and UBL-Ontology project work    (J2Z)
  • Requirements issues (ref: http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?UseCases)    (J30)
  • Formalization issues    (J31)
  • [CCT-Rep] status report    (J33)

• Status of Protege-KIF project work    (J34)

• status of NHIN-RFI & Health-Ont project work    (J35)

• UBL liaison report    (J36)

• SICoP liaison report    (J37)

• NCOR relationship - pending    (J38)

• Planning team report    (J39)

• UpperOntologySummit - organizing committee report    (J3A)

8) project work session / discussion -    (J3B)

9) New project proposals    (J3C)

10) Sponsorship and funding    (J3D)

11) Other business    (J3E)

12) Next meeting date and adjourn    (J3F)

• regular call adjourned _____ am PST    (J3G)
• next call will be on Thu 2006-01-12 starting at 10:30 am PST - LeoObrst of MITRE will be speaking on "What is an ontology? - A Briefing on the Range of Semantic Models" - see: ConferenceCall_2006_01_12 ... see you there. RSVP!    (J3H)

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