Conference Call Details (11DT)
- Date: Thursday, May 31, 2007 (11DU)
- Start Time: 10:30am PDT / 1:30pm EDT / 6:30pm BST / 17:30 GMT/UTC (11DV)
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Attendees (11EF)
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... (please insert your name above or RSVP by e-mailing <peter.yim@cim3.com> offline) (11EJ)
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Agenda Ideas (11EL)
- deferred items (mainly "new projects") from the 2007.05.17 call (11GP)
- ref: http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2007_05_31#nid11GC (11GQ)
- see item 8 below (11GR)
... (please insert your ideas below) (11EP)
Agenda & Proceedings (11EQ)
1) Welcome & confirmation of agenda (11ER)
- KenBaclawski took the chair and welcomed everyone. (11ES)
2) Appointment of secretary to take minutes (11ET)
3) Roll-call of participants (11EV)
- Welcome to new Ontolog community members (11EX)
4) Upcoming meeting & event schedule (near future) (11EY)
- Scheduled Ontolog Events: (11EZ)
- Thursday, 28-Jun-2007 - We had the 8th Event in the "Database And Ontology" Mini-Series - The session was co-chaired by Dr. Matthew West and Dr. Susie Stephens. Dr. SouripriyaDas and Dr. MelliyalAnnamalai from Oracle were their invited speakers who gave a talk on: "Building Database Infrastructure for Managing Semantic Data". ... Please refer to details at the session wiki page, at: ConferenceCall_2007_06_28 ... Audio archives of the session is now available! T (11F0)
- Thursday, 05-Jul-2007 - Dr. Matthew West presented the 9th Event in the "Database And Ontology" Mini-Series - ChrisPartridge from the BORO Center, UK was our invited speaker. He gave a talk on "Data and process revisited: ontology driving a paradigm shift in the development of business application systems." ... Please refer to details at the session wiki page, at: ConferenceCall_2007_07_05 ... Audio archives of the session is now available! T (11F1)
- Thursday, 12-Jul-2007 - Dr. Susie Stephens and Dr. Matthew West presented the 10th Event in the "Database And Ontology" Mini-Series - Dr. John Sowa from VivoMind Intelligence was be our invited speaker. Dr. Sowa gave a talk on: "Analogical Reasoning With and About Databases and Knowledge Bases". Please refer to details at the session wiki page, at: ConferenceCall_2007_07_12 ... Audio archives of the session is now available! T (this is still tentative) (11F2)
- Other upcoming events of interest - see: RelevantEventsOfInterest2007 (11F3)
- on deck are - more talk in the DatabaseAndOntology series, BillAndersen, MarkMusen, DeborahMcGuinness, JohnBateman, TimRedmond / TaniaTudorache, ... etc. etc. (11F4)
- KenBaclawski: also on Uncertainty & Decision Support, possibility to grow that into a mini-series (11F5)
- Jeanne Holm and possibility of other NASA/JPL prespectives (11HI)
- KenBaclawski: suggestions for another session featuring new developments in triples- and quads- stores; Ken will ping MatthewWest on it. (11HK)
5) Communications, logistics, & work protocols issues (11F6)
- Calendar - new page now set up for Ken to champion the work - let's do it at: CommunityCalendarImplementation (11HL)
6) Follow-ups from previous calls (11F7)
7) Current Project Status Report (11F9)
- Current Project Status Review: (11FA)
- Status CctRepresentation and UblOntology project work - no update (11FB)
- Status of ProtegeKIF project work - no update (11FC)
- status of NHIN-RFI & Health-Ont project work. No progress was reported - no update (11FD)
- status of OntologTaxoThesaurus project work (11FE)
- KenBaclawski, DeniseBedford and BobSmith would want to see some of the summit survey results incorporated into this project. KenBaclawski has joined the list, but no recent activity has occurred. (11FF)
- Ken just posted something to the [ontologizing] list ... to see if we can get the work in motion again soon (11HO)
- KenBaclawski, DeniseBedford and BobSmith would want to see some of the summit survey results incorporated into this project. KenBaclawski has joined the list, but no recent activity has occurred. (11FF)
- status of OntologyDrivenApplications compilation work - no update (11FG)
- UBL liaison report - no update (11FI)
- SICoP / ONTAC liaison report - no update (11FJ)
- NCOR liaison report - no update (11FK)
- Planning team report - see item 8c below (11FL)
8) Key Issues discussion: (11FM)
- an effort to collaboratively develop a "common basis"? - ref: http://ontolog.cim3.net/forum/ontolog-forum/2007-05/msg00114.html (11GF)
- a natural followup from the UpperOntologySummit (11HP)
- potential leadership could come from JohnSowa, PatCassidy, ... (11HQ)
- Doug: let's ping SteveRay to see if NIST can take on the leadership to implement this (11HR)
- Ken: could collaborate with the OBO Foundary work, which is similar (11HS)
- Duane: support of registry/repository software - will find out more in a meeting tomorrow (11HT)
- Peter: this would complement well with the CIM3 offer on hardware/infrastructure (11HU)
- Duane: we could set up a registry/repository, then define roles and call for volunteers ... (11HW)
- Peter & Duane will need to have a discussion (offline initially) to clarify IPR issues (11HX)
- All: We should try to report this back to this [ontolog-forum] list, and try to get enough interest to stage a special session for discussing this, to institutionalize this as a "project", and taking this forward (11HV)
- Duane / Ken: possibility of putting some AJAX software into the wiki (11HY)
- Duane: e.g. auto-page updates (11HZ)
- Duane: we could also consider the Adobe FLEX, now that it has been open-sourced (11I2)
- Ken: one of my students is working on something similar (11I0)
- Peter, Ken, Duane, Karlsruhe-folks & team members should get together in a collaboration on this (11I1)
- consider calling up another special session (11I3)
- Peter: how about a new mini-series on informal ontology - shared understanding, concept maps, dialog maps, visualization, knowledge management, ... (11GG)
- Peter: thinking of collaborating with NASA/JPL on this (11I4)
- possibilities of a session on collaborative ontology development (11GH)
9) New project proposals. (11GC)
- a call is out from DuaneNickull for collaboration between this community and the SOA community in there "Reference Architecture" effort, which we hope, will be ontology enabled. See: http://ontolog.cim3.net/forum/ontolog-forum/2007-05/msg00010.html (11GD)
- please respond to the above thread, or e-mail DuaneNickull and PeterYim if you are interested. (11GE)
- Duane: so far, this is not a formal request from OASIS yet, but would like to see if Ontolog members would like to participate / team-up on this: (11I6)
- Core team interested in this work: PatHayes, DougHolmes, KenBaclawski, PeterYim, FrankMcCabe, DuaneNickull, ... LisaColvin, KenLaskey (added: 2007.06.24) ... let's formally put this together as an "Ontolog project" (11I8)
10) Sponsorship and funding. (11GJ)
- no discussion (11IA)
11) Other business. (11GK)
- no discussion (11IB)
12) Next meeting date and adjourn (11GL)
- Our next meeting/call will be the Thu 2007.06.07, same time, mainly on OntologySummit2007 follow-up action review. Details will be at ConferenceCall_2007_06_07 ... talk to you then! (11GM)
- this call session adjourned 12:02 pm PDT (11GN)
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