ConferenceCall 2006 03 09

[ontolog] Member Conference Call - Thu 2006-03-09    (KYT)

Conference Call Details    (KYU)

• Subject: [ontolog] member conference call Thu 2006-03-09    (KYV)

• Date: Thursday, Mar. 9, 2006    (KYW)
• Start Time: 10:30 AM PST / 1:30 PM EST / 18:30 UTC World Clock    (KYX)
• Expected Call Duration: 1 ~ 1.5 hour    (KYY)
• Dial-in Number: 1-641-696-6600 (Iowa) - note: new call-in number    (KYZ)
• Participant Access Code: "686564#"    (KZ0)

• Agenda Comments:    (KZ1)
  • ... build rapport; ... sync up; ... distribute, assign or arbitrate virtual ownership of tasks; ... and use it to deal with emergencies. ... plus, member suggested agenda items.    (KZ2)
  • 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    (KZ3)
  • VNC session (if needed) will be started 5 minutes before the call at: http://vnc2.cim3.net:5800/    (KZ4)
    • view-only password: "ontolog"    (KZ5)
    • view-and-control pw: to be supplied during session as needed    (KZ6)
  • Wiki page for this call (i.e. this page) is at: http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2006_03_09    (KZ7)

Attendees    (KZ8)

• Attended:    (KZ9)
  • PeterYim    (L3O)
  • RoyRoebuck    (L98)
  • LeoObrst    (L99)
  • RexBrooks    (L3P)
  • PatCassidy    (L9E)
  • KurtConrad    (L8W)

• Expecting:    (KZA)
  • DeniseBedford    (L3N)
  • ...(add your name here)...''    (KZB)

• Regrets:    (KZC)
  • BarrySmith    (L3Q)
  • ConorShankey    (L44)
  • DuaneNickull    (L45)
  • EMichaelMaximilien    (L46)

Agenda Ideas    (KZD)

• Plan the next 3 months' speaker and technical discussion sessions    (KZE)
• ...(add suggested items here)...    (KZF)

Agenda & Proceedings    (KZG)

1) Welcome & confirmation of agenda    (KZH)

• PeterYim took the chair and welcomed everyone.    (KZI)

2) Appointment of secretary to take minutes    (KZJ)

• PeterYim volunteered    (KZK)

3) Roll-call of participants    (KZL)

• see above    (KZM)

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

• Reference: Nominal meeting types (on a monthly basis):    (KZO)
  • member regular meeting    (KZP)
  • invited speaker session    (KZQ)
  • scheduled discussion    (KZR)
  • project review    (KZS)
  • workshop / work session    (KZT)
  • planning    (KZU)

• Scheduled Ontolog Events (point person)    (KZV)
  • Wed Mar. 15, 2006 - UpperOntologySummit - organizing committee formed and working on it (PeterYim)    (KZW)
    • (Joint Communique Prep) UpperOntologySummit/UosConvenerMeeting_2006_03_14    (KZX)
    • (UO Application Dialog) UpperOntologySummit/UosApplicationDialogMeeting_2006_03_15    (KZY)
    • UpperOntologSummitMeeting_2006_03_15    (KZZ)
      • above sessions are accessible onsite (at NIST, Gaithersburg, MD, US) with pre-registration, or via remote dial-in    (L00)

• Invited Speaker Schedule for the next 3~6 months:    (L01)
  • Candidate -    (L02)
    • SimonBuckinghamShum of the Compendium Institute ( ? ; ref. post from ScottLHolmes & PeterYim's response)    (L03)
    • LarryReeker of NIST (suggested by SusanTurnbull)    (L04)
    • John Sowa (suggested by BillMcCarthy)    (L05)
  • other suggestions:    (L06)
    • Monica: suggest inviting someone from the [regrep] group    (L07)
    • Rex suggsted we should also invite UDDI and XMDR people, and possibly to have all three parties (regrep, uddi & xmdr) on a panel    (L08)
    • Peter also suggested that we should invite Dieter Fensel to talk to us some time    (L09)
    • Rex / Peter: XMDR - BruceBargmeyer or someone from his XMDR team    (L0A)
    • PeterYim / ElisaKendall: PatHayes, DeborahMcGuinness    (L0B)
    • To be brought up for discussion:    (L0C)
      • ChrisMenzel: BillAndersen    (L0D)
      • BrandNiemann / MarkMusen / PeterYim: Frank Hartel (NIH/NCI)    (L0E)
      • BrandNiemann / PeterYim: RoyRoebuck    (L0F)
      • DuaneNickull: suggesting candidates from Microsoft - Phil Berstein & Sergey Melnik - ref: http://ontolog.cim3.net/forum//ontolog-forum/2005-08/msg00027.html    (L0G)
      • DuaneNickull: EricMiller, Tim Berners-Lee of W3C    (L0H)
      • ChrisMenzel & PeterYim: ChrisMenzel some time early 2006 - on some of the work he is doing at Boeing)    (L0I)
      • 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".    (L0J)
      • BrandNiemann (new! input/2005.10.15): EricPeterson - who's been working on an OWL version of the FEA-DRM and who was to lead the COSMO development subgroup in the newly formed SICoP / ONTAC-WG. The new lead is DagobertSoergel from University of Maryland; we should consider inviting him too.    (L0K)
      • MillsDavis (new! / 2005.11.26) - Conor Shankey (CEO, Visual Knowledge)    (L0L)
      • PeterYim (new! / 2005.11.28) - AdamCheyer, SRI, on the CALO project    (L0M)
      • PeterYim (new! Prompted by Doug Lenat's talk) - MikeGenesereth (director of the Stanford Logic Group)    (L0N)
      • BobSmith / PeterYim / EMichaelMaximilien (new! / 2006.01.09) - TomGruber    (L0O)
      • 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    (L0P)
      • RexBrooks (new! / 2006.01.25) - JoeChiusano of Booz Allen Hamilton    (L0Q)
      • PeterYim (new! 2006.02.14) - JackPark of SRI on topic maps, openiris, tagging contents, ...    (L0R)
      • DuaneNickull (new! 2006.02.28) - Robert Tolksdorf of Freie Universität Berlin (Germany) or someone from their group    (L95)
        • ref. their "Semantic Technologies in Collaborative Applications (STICA 06)" - http://www.inf.fu-berlin.de/inst/ag-nbi/conf/STICA06/    (L96)
      • LeoObrst (new! 2006.03.09) - RobinMcEntire from Glaxo Smith Klein for his application expire (he was at the NCOR inauguration)    (L9A)
      • LeoObrst (new! 2006.03.09) - BobMcGregor from Siderean (previously ISI)    (L9B)
      • LeoObrst (new! 2006.03.09) - others from ISI like EdHovey ...    (L9C)
      • LeoObrst (new! 2006.03.09) - RichardFikes from Stanford KSL    (L9D)
      • LeoObrst (new! 2006.03.09) - IanHorrocks from University of Manchester    (L9D)
      • LeoObrst (new! 2006.03.09) - PeterPatelSchneider from Bell Labs    (L9D)

• near future - Conor, Jack & Roy - Kurt and Peter will follow-up with these speakers off-line    (L0S)

• EMichaelMaximilien will ping MikeGenesereth and some potential UIMA speakers on behalf of the community    (L0T)

• Scheduled Discussions for the next 3 months - * = extended discussion under item 8 below:    (L0U)
  • EMichaelMaximilien / NicolasRouquette / DeniseBedford / PeterYim - tagging the Ontolog (knowledge repository) content*    (L0V)
  • RexBrooks / BobSmith - ontology application in emergency response*    (L0W)
  • Other candidates:    (L0X)
    • Rex: possibility of working with Duane on a follow-up to the last SOA discussion    (L0Y)
    • Rex suggsted we should also invite UDDI and XMDR people, and possibly to have all three parties (regrep, uddi & xmdr) on a panel    (L0Z)
    • Adam: need OWL & SWRL for OWL ontologies to really be useful    (L10)
    • NicolasRouquette -- other topics lined up?    (L11)
    • 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.    (L12)
    • Anders: we should have a "Tools / Testing" discussion    (L13)
    • Kurt: "on metamodels, independent of the representation" (at a level that allows us to avoid the language war)    (L14)
      • Bob: as a segway into things like pi-calculus, tec.    (L15)
    • PeterYim: "moving from data standards to data-model- and semantic-model-driven eBusiness standards"    (L16)
      • candidate panelists: BruceBarqmeyer, MarkCrawford, ElisaKendall, AdamPease, MikeDaconta, JimHendler, SteveRay (moderator?)    (L17)
      • maybe a joint SICoP-Ontolog event, as part of another Collaborative Expedition Workshop?    (L18)
    • more session for the "Ontolgy Applications and Implementations" series    (L19)
    • (new! 2006.01.26) - tagging multimedia and other Ontolog content for podcast & semantic search    (L1A)

• Upcoming Events of interest    (L1B)
  • Tuesday March 14, 2006 - Collaborative Expedition Workshop #49 - Leveraging Open Standards and Open Collaboration: Pioneering Mechanisms for Agility Across Open, Intergovernmental Communities - accessible both onsite at NIST (Gaithersburg, MD) or via remote Dial-in - see: http://colab.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ExpeditionWorkshop/LeveragingOpenStandardsOpenCollaboration_BuildingAgilityAcrossOpenCommunities    (L1C)

5) Communications, logistics, & work protocols issues    (L1D)

6) Follow-ups from previous calls    (L1E)

• Engaging UN/CEFACT:    (L1F)
  • how about BillMcCarthy ... are you planning to be there at Vancouver, Bill?    (L1G)
  • Conor Shankey (who is in Vancouver) has graciously agreed to represent the community, if Bill is not available.    (L1H)

• Presenting at the OASIS Symposium 2006 (9-12 May 2006, San Francisco, CA) - Proposal submission deadline: 20 December 2005 - discussion postponed    (L1I)
  • Duane and Rex are submitting, requesting that they cover our (Ontolog) work as a sidebar    (L1J)
    • Rex will be presenting - he will put in a good word for this community    (L1K)

• Bob and Nicolas will work on the ontological lessons learned in our exercise on RegularConferenceCall scheduling -- (Bob / Nicolas - please bring closure to this item) - discussion postponed (unless we have time)    (L1L)

7) Current Project Status Report - discussion postponed    (L1M)

• Status CCT-Representation and UBL-Ontology project work    (L1N)
  • Requirements issues (ref: http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?UseCases)    (L1O)
  • Formalization issues    (L1P)
  • [CCT-Rep] status report    (L1Q)

• Status of Protege-KIF project work    (L1R)

• status of NHIN-RFI & Health-Ont project work    (L1S)

• UBL liaison report    (L1T)

• SICoP liaison report    (L1U)

• NCOR relationship - pending    (L1V)

• Planning team report    (L1W)

• UpperOntologySummit - organizing committee report    (L1X)

8) Key Issues discussion:    (L1Y)

• Planning our events for the next quarter    (L8X)
  • worksheet updated - see: http://ontolog.cim3.net/file/work/Ontolog-planning/Ontolog_Event_Plan_2006_20060309e.doc    (L8Y)
    • we managed to lock in a few dates:    (L9J)
      • RoyRoebuck - Invited Speaker session - Mar. 30, 2006 [this was subsequently postponed, due to Roy's unavailability for 3/30]    (N58)
      • RexBrooks & BobSmith - Ontology Applications in Emergency Response Panel Discussion - June 22, 2006    (N59)
      • DuaneNickull & RexBrooks - SOA Panel Discussion (covering SOA-RM & SOA-RA) - Aug. 24, 2006    (N5A)
      • still need to confirm the "Tagging Ontolog Content" Discussion Sessions 1 & 2 dates (see next bullet, below) [attn: Denise, Max, Conor - please advise]    (N5B)

• from our 2006.02.16 & prior discussion    (L8Z)
  • "Tagging Ontolog Content" Discussion Sessions - a.k.a. " A pilot exercise toward building an ontology application"    (L90)
    • session 1: what do we want to do? (i.e. to do with the content we are tagging)    (L2Q)
      • moderators: Denise, Max & Nicolas    (L2R)
      • date: 2nd week April 2006    (L2S)
      • candidate panelists:    (L2T)
    • session 2: what are the technologies available? ... and what are our constraints and choices of technology to get the job done?    (L2U)
      • moderators: Max & Conor    (L2V)
      • date: end April or early May    (L2W)
      • candidate panelists:    (L2X)

• Discussion    (L9F)
  • RoyRoebuck - let's develop physical representations of the range of models/technology available now (placeholder only, Roy, please expand on this thought.)    (L9G)

• LeoObrst: NCOR is planning a Ontology summer school at Buffalo - our interest would be both to learn and to teach    (L9H)

• KurtConrad: we have about 12 Ontolog folks at SemTech2006, maybe we can do some get together when they convene next year    (L9I)

(b) RexBrooks / BobSmith - ontology application in emergency response technical discussion session    (L2Y)

• possibly May - Rex and Bob will co-moderate    (L2Z)

(c) Do we want to do another Ontolog face-to-face workshop at the Ninth International Protege Conference that is scheduled to be held July 23-26, 2006 in Stanford, California? -- ref: http://ontolog.cim3.net/forum//ontolog-forum/2006-02/msg00028.html    (L30)

•    (L31)
  • definitely want to do this - consider to have Bob & Kurt lead this    (L32)

• project work session / discussion - Beginning of Year Planning for Ontolog -- to be postponed to the next membership conference call - discussion postponed (unless we have time)    (L33)
  • SWOT Analysis    (L34)
    • strengths    (L35)
    • weaknesses    (L36)
    • opportunities    (L37)
    • threats    (L38)

• initiatives for this year    (L39)

• action plans    (L3A)

9) New project proposals    (L3B)

10) Sponsorship and funding    (L3C)

11) Other business    (L3D)

12) Next meeting date and adjourn    (L3E)

• Our next meeting/call will be the UpperOntologySummit and associated preparation sessions:    (L3F)
  • UpperOntologySummit/UosApplicationDialogMeeting_2006_03_15    (L3G)
  • UpperOntologSummitMeeting_2006_03_15    (L3H)
  • see you there! RSVP by Sat 3/11/06 even for remote attendance    (L3I)
• this call adjourned 11:20 am PST    (L3J)

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 minutes captured in real time on this wiki by PeterYim / 2006.03.09-11:21 am PST    (L3K)