ConferenceCall 2006 06 22

[ontolog] Member Conference Call - Thu 2006-06-22    (O0D)

Conference Call Details    (O0E)

• Subject: [ontolog] member conference call Thu 2006-06-22    (O0F)

• Date: Thursday, June 22, 2006    (O0G)
• Start Time: 10:30 AM PDT / 1:30 PM EDT / 17:30 UTC World Clock    (O0H)
• Expected Call Duration: 1 hour    (O0I)
• Dial-in Number: 1-641-696-6600 (Iowa)    (O0J)
• Participant Access Code: "686564#"    (O0K)

• Agenda Comments:    (O0L)
  • 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    (O0M)
  • VNC session (if needed) will be started 5 minutes before the call at: http://vnc2.cim3.net:5800/    (O0N)
    • view-only password: "ontolog"    (O0O)
    • view-and-control pw: to be supplied during session as needed    (O0P)
  • Wiki page for this call (i.e. this page) is at: http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2006_06_22    (O0Q)

Attendees    (O0R)

• Attended:    (O0S)
  • PeterYim    (O3A)
  • PatrickDurusau    (O3P)
  • EMichaelMaximilien    (O3S)

• Expecting:    (O0T)
  • RexBrooks    (O3B)
  • LisaColvin    (O3C)
  • DeniseBedford    (O3D)
  • ...(add your name here)...    (O0U)

• Regrets:    (O0V)
  • KurtConrad    (O3E)

Agenda Ideas (candidate items to be adopted into the agenda for discussion)    (O0W)

• upcoming scheduled event planning & discussion    (O0X)
• re-open discussion about OIS2006    (O0Y)
• ...(add suggested items here)...    (O0Z)

Agenda & Proceedings    (O10)

1) Welcome & confirmation of agenda    (O11)

• PeterYim took the chair and welcomed everyone.    (O12)

2) Appointment of secretary to take minutes    (O13)

• PeterYim volunteered    (O14)

3) Roll-call of participants    (O15)

• see above    (O16)

4) Upcoming meeting & event schedule (near future)    (O17)

• Scheduled Ontolog Events:    (O18)
  • Continuation of our "Ontologizing the Ontolog Body of Knowledge" series of talks & discussions - http://ontolog.cim3.net/forum//ontolog-forum/2006-05/msg00019.html    (O19)
  • Thu 2006.06.29 - TimRedmond - "Protege Architecture and API" (a session for applications developers)    (O1A)
  • Thu 2006.07.06 - "Ontologizing the Ontolog Body of Knowledge" Discussion Session-2: The Solution Landscape - Moderators (organizers): EMichaelMaximilien & ConorShankey    (O1B)
    • Session title: "Multifaceted approach to ontologizing the ONTOLOG content rooted in pragmatism, tools, services, and standards, and social collaboration"    (O1C)
    • see: ConferenceCall_2006_06_15    (O1D)
  • Thu 2006.07.13 - PatCassidy - "From Controlled Vocabulary to Standard Ontologies" (from the perspective of a formal ontologist)    (O1E)
  • Thu 2006.07.23 - Ontolog F2F Meeting and Workshop colocated with the 9th Protege International Conference (Stanford, CA) - Organizers: BobSmith & KurtConrad    (O1F)
    • we'll hopefully be arranging more functions during this community F2F gathering and the almost weeklong Conference    (O1G)
    • organizers now changed to BobSmith, KurtConrad & RexBrooks    (O1H)
  • Thu 2006.08.10 - SOA Panel Discussion (covering SOA-RM & SOA-RA) - Moderators (organizers): DuaneNickull & RexBrooks    (O1I)
  • Thu 2006.08.31 - Ontology Applications in Emergency Response Panel Discussion - Moderators (organizers): RexBrooks & BobSmith    (O1J)

• Other upcoming events of interest    (O1K)

5) Communications, logistics, & work protocols issues - no discussion    (O1L)

6) Follow-ups from previous calls    (O1M)

• postmortem on last week's BobSmith & DeniseBedford moderated - "OntologTaxoThesaurus Project Work Session - Categorizing Concepts" - ConferenceCall_2006_06_15    (O1N)
  • vote of thanks to Bob & Denise for a job well done!    (O1O)
  • what was good about it    (O1P)
  • what can be improved    (O1Q)
  • what would we do differently the next time    (O1R)
  • discussion    (O1S)

• Engaging UN/CEFACT    (O1T)
  • Kurt: suggest we schedule a UN/CEFACT-ONTOLOG joint teleconference (hopefully on a Thursday) so that we can do a focused discussion    (O1U)
    • will need to follow-up with BillMcCarthy & AndersTell    (O1V)
    • Rex: there will be a joint OASIS-ITU conference in Oct. 2006 (UN/CEFACT & ebXML is related somehow)    (O1W)

• Should we have a joint presence at OIS2006? - OIS2006: 1st International Workshop on Ontologizing Industrial Standards    (O1X)
  • this is exactly what we said we'll strive to do on our charter! - ref: http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?WikiHomePage#nidB    (O1Y)
  • November 6-9, 2006 - Tucson, Arizona, USA - colocated with the 25th International Conference on Conceptual Modeling (ER2006)    (O1Z)
  • see: http://ontolog.cim3.net/forum//ontolog-forum/2006-03/msg00020.html & http://events.deri.at/ois2006/    (O20)
  • EMichaelMaximilien is in contact with some of these people ... he can help relay questions if we have any    (O21)
  • conflict with 5th International Semantic Web Conference (same week, but in Athens, Georgia)    (O22)
  • abstract deadline is May 1, 2006 (so we still have some time to get organized if we want to really do something)    (O23)
  • this is definitely relevant to us ... let's think things over and come back for more discussion at the next call    (O24)
  • KurtConrad (2006.06.22): suggest that maybe we can track down the organizers and liaise with them to see if there is any collaboration potentials -- volunteer to take on this task solicited!    (O25)
  • given LeoObrst & BobSmith's recent reference to DERI work (see: http://ontolog.cim3.net/forum//ontolog-forum/2006-06/msg00011.html) and OIS2006 - let's re-open discussion on possibilities    (O26)

7) Current Project Status Report    (O27)

• Status CctRepresentation and UblOntology project work    (O28)

• Status of ProtegeKIF project work    (O29)

• status of NHIN-RFI & Health-Ont project work    (O2A)

• status of OntologTaxoThesaurus project work    (O2B)
  • preparing for next week's work session    (O2C)
  • Denise has put together some slides for next week, Bob will circulate to the team    (O2D)

• UBL liaison report    (O2E)
• SICoP liaison report    (O2F)
  • great workshop (still going) with the Geospatial community. See: http://colab.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ExpeditionWorkshop/OpenCollaboration_NetworkingGeospatialInformationTechnology_2006_06_20    (O3Q)
  • ONTAC liaison report    (O3R)
• NCOR relationship - pending    (O2G)
• Planning team report    (O2H)

8) Key Issues discussion:    (O2I)

• OntologWorkshop_July_2006 organizing committee report & discussion - (discussion from previous sessions below)    (O2J)
  • Ontolog Face to Face Workshop see http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?OntologWorkshop_July_2006    (O2K)
    • Key Dates and Expectations, Contingencies (May 29th deadline extensions?)    (O2L)
    • Recruiting efforts    (O2M)
    • Program Committee-Social Committee Logistics and Wiki Support    (O2N)
    • Etc.    (O2O)
    • Denise will probably be able to join us at the July 23 face-to-face    (O2P)
      • Bob will arrange to send her an 'invitation'    (O2Q)
    • Steve will consider having people from NIST come join us at the F2F (Rex suggests KC Morris, if possible)    (O2R)
    • Peter: will try to invite SRI people over, since they are going through an exercise rather similar to ours (which culminates in the 7/23 F2F)    (O2S)
    • had some discussion on cadidate participants to the 2F    (O2T)
      • may need to extend the 6/29 CFP    (O2U)
    • need to recruit a champion to work with Kurt and Rex for scheduling some social activities and other meetings - RexBrooks (Kurt will join them too) will try to get some sugestion from MarkMusen    (O2V)
    • candidates additional meetings: Stanford SMI, KSL; SRI-AI-Lab, EPRI, IBM-Almaden Research Center, PARC; company with DougEngelbart;    (O2W)
      • JackPark: SRI receptive to hosting a meeting at the AI Center; and see the value to arranging some presentations by Ontolog members and their work (e.g. intro to Ontolog, Denise, SOA, ...) to the AI Center people during the meeting.    (O2X)
        • members of the organizing committee will continue to pursue this with Jack.    (O2Y)

•    (O2Z)
  • Discussion:    (O30)
    • People we might engage:    (O3J)
      • MarkMusen (who actually says he is planning to spend some time at the 7/23 workshop)    (O3K)
      • MichaelUschold (who will be keynote speaker for the Protege Conference)    (O3L)
      • someone who can represent the 'formal ontology' position - ... (candidates: BarrySmith, PatCassidy, AdamPease, ChrisWelty, PatHayes, RichardFikes, ..., someone to talk about the IKRIS project, ...)    (O3O)
      • MartinHepp? (--thoughts from Leo-Bob-Peter)    (O3M)
      • YaserBishr (who made a very good and relevant presentation along the lines of our theme at http://colab.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ExpeditionWorkshop/OpenCollaboration_NetworkingGeospatialInformationTechnology_2006_06_20#nid355M (--suggested by Peter/2006.06.21)    (O3N)

9) New project proposals    (O33)

10) Sponsorship and funding    (O34)

11) Other business    (O35)

• In view of the fact that only 3 of us were here. we only briefly discussed some of the people we might invite as presenters to Max's 2006.07.06 "Ontologizing Ontolog" Discussion Session-2    (O3T)
  • Max will be making the invitations this weekend    (O3U)
    • Peter / Max: we'll look into inviting TimRedmond or Tania Tudorache of the Protege team to Max's 2006.07.06 panel    (O3V)

12) Next meeting date and adjourn    (O36)

• Our next meeting/call will be next Thu 2006.06.29 - with invited speaker TimRedmond from Stanford, presenting: "Developing Applications in Protégé" - ref: ConferenceCall_2006_06_29    (O37)
• this call adjourned 11:00 am PDT    (O38)

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 minutes captured in real time on this wiki by PeterYim / 2006.06.22-11:03am PDT    (O39)