Conference Call 2003-05-01

UBL-Ontology Project Conference Call - Thu 2003-05-01    (6FQ)

• Conference Call Details:    (6FR)
  • Subject: [ubl-ontology] project conference call    (6FS)
  • Comments/Agenda:    (6FT)
    • Agenda Comments: ... build rapport; ... sync up; ... distribute, assign or arbitrate virtual ownership of tasks; ... and use it to deal with emergencies. ... plus, member suggested agenda items.    (6FU)
    • Please post you suggested agenda items if you would like to see anything put onto the agenda    (6FV)
    • please post or upload any material to be shared to the list, to the wiki or by ftp upload prior to the meeting    (6FW)
    • VNC session will be started 5 minutes before the call at: http://vnc3.cim3.net:5800/    (6FX)
      • view-only password: "ontolog"    (6FY)
      • view-and-control pw: "ontology"    (6FZ)
    • During the call, please browse the wiki page at: http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?Conference_Call_2003-05-01    (6G0)
  • Date: Thursday, May 1, 2003    (6G1)
  • Start Time: 10:30 AM Pacific Daylight Time    (6G2)
  • End Time: 11:25 AM Pacific Daylight Time    (6G3)
  • Dial-in Number: 1-702-851-3330 (Las Vegas, Nevada)    (6G4)
  • Participant Access Code: "030501"    (6G5)

• Attendees:    (6G6)
  • PeterYim    (6G7)
  • MonicaMartin    (6G8)
  • KurtConrad    (6G9)
  • AdamPease    (6GA)
  • RalphHodgson    (6GB)
  • DeanAllemang    (6GC)
  • PatCassidy    (6GD)

•    (6GE)
  • Regrets:    (6GF)
    • JohnYunker    (6GG)

Agenda Ideas    (6GH)

• how can we speed up the formalization effort --brought up by AdamPease at the 2003-04-24 conference call    (6GI)
• can we re-visit the issue of sponsorship some time --suggested by PeterYim/4.24.03    (6GJ)
• collaboration tools - introducing PurpleSlurple, 5 minutes --proposed by PeterYim    (6GK)

Agenda & Proceedings    (6GL)

Agenda    (6GM)

1) Welcome    (6GN)

2) Appointment of secretary to take minutes    (6GO)

3) Roll-call of participants    (6GP)

4) Communication logistics & work protocols    (6GQ)

• both PeterYim and MonicaMartin agrees that it would be difficult to avoid conflicts; we'll just have to make an executive decision and run with it.    (6GS)

• highlight key topics and action items into a message post    (6GU)
• assign champion to moderate specific discussion items    (6GV)

5) Status on use cases    (6GW)

•    (6H1)
  • no update    (6H2)

6) Report to UBL committee    (6H3)

7) Status of language & tools selection    (6H5)

8) Status of analysis and formalization of UBL models    (6H6)

9) Sponsorship    (6HC)

10) Methodology Refinement    (6HD)

11) Tasking    (6HG)

12) Other business    (6HJ)

13) Next meeting date and adjourn    (6HK)

Proceedings    (6HL)

1) Welcome    (6HM)

• KurtConrad took the chair    (6HN)
• Welcomed RalphHodgson & DeanAllemang from TopQuadrant who is joining us for the first time    (6HO)
  • Ralph & Dean gave an intro of themselves and TopQuadrant    (6HP)

2) Appointment of secretary to take minutes    (6HQ)

• PeterYim offered to take notes for the meeting on the wiki    (6HR)

3) Roll-call of participants    (6HS)

• see above    (6HT)

4) Communication logistics & work protocols    (6HU)

• suggestion: add wiki pages for SUMO, KIF, and for ToolsCollaboration    (6HX)
• PeterYim walked people through PurpleSlurple - something that allows adding purple numbers on-the-fly that is featured on our collaboration tool suite now.    (6HY)

5) Status on use cases    (6HZ)

• no update furnished at this call.    (6I4)

6) Report to UBL committee    (6I5)

• KurtConrad's status report is out    (6I7)
• SueProbert is to advocate for us at the London UBL f2f meeting    (6I8)
• Peter has updated the wiki to provide links to Kurt's report    (6I9)

7) Status of language & tools selection    (6IA)

• we've converged around:    (6IB)
  • SUMO as the reference upper ontology,    (6IC)
  • Protege (early stage tool), and    (6ID)
  • KIF (final stage)    (6IE)
  • PatCassidy: protege is useful but should not be the formal definitive repositoty for us    (6IF)
  • RalphHodgson: will post a survey of tools they have done to the forum    (6IG)
  • Adam's suggestion: check out, also, SNARK from the SRI AI site; also possibility of another java-based tool they are finalizing on.    (6IH)
  • PatrickCassidy: unwise to ignore DAML+OIL and OWL.    (6II)
  • AdamPease: Tranlator between KIF and OWL should be coming out in 60 days.    (6IJ)

8) Status of analysis and formalization of UBL models    (6IK)

• AdamPease has posted his work-in-progress; he will be happy to talk people through it.    (6IM)
• MonicaMartin referred to referencing OAG-CC work on yahoogroups    (6IN)

• AdamPease, again, solicited for more people to engaged in this work.    (6IS)

9) Sponsorship    (6IT)

10) Methodology Refinement    (6IU)

11) Tasking    (6IX)

12) Other business    (6J0)

13) Next meeting date and adjourn    (6J1)

• Next meeting 2003-05-08 10:30am PDT    (6J2)
• meeting adjourned 2003-05-01 11:33am PDT    (6J3)

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 Minutes taken by PeterYim on the wiki in real time
 ppy / 2003-05-01_11:35    (6J4)