UBL-Ontology Project Conference Call - Thu 2003-07-17 (70L)
Conference Call Details (70M)
- Subject: [ubl-ontology] project conference call Thu 2003-07-17 (70N)
- Comments/Agenda: (70O)
- (70P)
- 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. (70Q)
- Please post you suggested agenda items if you would like to see anything put onto the agenda (70R)
- please post or upload any material to be shared to the list, to the wiki or by ftp upload prior to the meeting (70S)
- During the call, please browse the wiki page at: http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?Conference_Call_2003-07-17 (70T)
- Date: Thursday, July 17, 2003 (70U)
- Start Time: 10:30 AM Pacific Daylight Time (70V)
- End Time: 11:25 AM Pacific Daylight Time (70W)
- Dial-in Number: 1-702-851-3330 (Las Vegas, Nevada) (70X)
- Participant Access Code: "030717" (70Y)
Agenda Ideas (71A)
Agenda & Proceedings (71B)
Meeting Minutes (71C)
1) Welcome (71D)
2) Appointment of secretary to take minutes (71F)
3) Roll-call of participants (71H)
4) Communication logistics & work protocols (71J)
- AdamPease suggested the use of an OntologyBrowser instead of using the Wiki for that function. (71K)
- AdamPease suggested a browser available from ontology.teknowledge.com. (71L)
- AdamPease also has available a Java based Ontology Browser called Sigma. He also has a whitepaper which discusses the browser. He will make both available (71M)
- AdamPease called in from vacation! That is true dedication to the mission of the group (thanks Adam)!!! (71N)
5) Next tutorial / work session - Collaborative formalization training (71O)
- Confirming the date: is next week Thu 2003-07-24 OK? (71P)
- moderators / leaders (71R)
- prepared presentations: (71S)
- Process (71U)
6) Issues / Discussion on current ubl-ontology formalization work (71V)
- AdamPease said we should not worry about the form of the content (invoice) instead of the actual information on the invoice. (71W)
- The group agreed with that. MichaelDaconta brought up the point that we can have a grounding to an XML Schema (like the UBL XML Schema). (71X)
- MichaelDaconta asked if our use cases can enable us to judge between different ontologies. AdamPease agreed and stated that each time we add a construct to the ontology we need to answer a question the user would care about. (71Y)
- BillMcCarthy suggested we always need to think about the user when we are building this. Especially in relation to the depth of the ontology. (71Z)
- MichaelDaconta suggested we discuss the three use cases and pick one to start with. (720)
- BillMcCarthy suggested we use the invoice use case to get going. (721)
- MonicaMartin discussed the issue of structured versus unstructured addresses and the relationship between addresses and locations. This discussion related to the address use case. (722)
- MichaelDaconta asked if there was an Address ontology. AdamPease did not know of any public domain ontology on addresses. (723)
- BillMcCarthy suggested we stick to the first use case (invoice validation). He stated that we need to focus and invoice is a good place to start. (724)
- AdamPease had to leave. (725)
- MichaelDaconta will post an email to the Ontolog Forum on recommend we agree to work on a single use case and the group at this meeting suggested reconciling an invoice to an order. (726)
- BillMcCarthy recommended that we go through the models and rectify the definitions. (727)
7) Other business (728)
- BillMcCarthy asked if the next call would be on rectifying invoice. The group did not know but agreed that was necessary. (729)
8) Next meeting date and adjourn (72A)
- Next meeting is on July 24th. (72B)
- MichaelDaconta asked what is the mechanism to post files to the ontolog server. (72C)
- BoNewman closed by thanking everbody for stepping up and continuing the meeting in the absence of Peter and Kurt. (72H)
- Meeting was adjourned. (72I)
