Conference Call 2003-08-07

UBL-Ontology Project Conference Call - Thu 2003-08-07    (76Z)

Conference Call Details    (770)

• Subject: [ubl-ontology] project conference call Thu 2003-08-07    (771)
• Comments/Agenda:    (772)
  •    (773)
    • 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.    (774)
  • Please post you suggested agenda items if you would like to see anything put onto the agenda    (775)
  • please post or upload any material to be shared to the list, to the wiki or by ftp upload prior to the meeting    (776)
  • VNC session will be started 5 minutes before the call at: http://vnc2.cim3.net:5800/    (777)
    • view-only password: "ontolog"    (778)
    • view-and-control pw: to be advised during the call as necessary    (779)
  • During the call, please browse the wiki page at: http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?Conference_Call_2003-08-07    (77A)
• Date: Thursday, August 07, 2003    (77B)
• Start Time: 10:30 AM Pacific Daylight Time    (77C)
• End Time: 11:25 AM Pacific Daylight Time    (77D)
• Dial-in Number: 1-702-851-3330 (Las Vegas, Nevada)    (77E)
• Participant Access Code: "030807#"    (77F)

Attendees    (77G)

Attendees:    (77H)

•    (77I)
  • PeterYim    (77J)
  • PatCassidy    (77K)
  • AdamPease    (77L)
  • KurtConrad    (77M)
  • MonicaMartin    (77N)
  • BoNewman    (77O)

• Regrets:    (77P)
  • TimMcGrath (still enroute back to Australia from the UBL Montreal meeting)    (77Q)
  • MikeDaconta    (77R)

Agenda & Proceedings    (77S)

1) Welcome    (77T)

•    (77U)
  • Kurt took the chair and welcomed everyone.    (77V)

2) Appointment of secretary to take minutes    (77W)

•    (77X)
  • PeterYim volunteered    (77Y)

3) Roll-call of participants    (77Z)

•    (780)
  • see above.    (781)

4) Possible face-to-face meeting    (782)

•    (784)
  • originally proposed because we hope we would have some work to show, and it was distant enough    (785)
  • re-proposing this date as something around week of Oct. 27, 2003 right before the Nov UBL meeting in the SF Bay Area    (786)
  • soliciting someone to step up and try to drive this and make it happen.    (787)

5) Communication logistics & work protocols    (789)

•    (78B)
  • PeterYim just started to work on installing it on the server for the community. Will report next week.    (78C)

•    (78E)
  • please maintain discussion thread integrity by "replying" to same discussion thread, and then starting new threads with an appropriate subject line, where applicable.    (78F)
  • please set your "Preference" before writing to the wiki    (78G)
  • please properly attribute your input (to posts on the wiki) with a trailer indicating author and date(/time), like:    (78H)
    • (--PeterYim / 2003-08-06_10:09 PDT) [time is optional, but useful, if one intends to make multiple posts within the same day.]    (78I)
    • make a post to the forum too, to draw people's attention to the input on the wiki    (78J)

6) Status on use cases (http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?UseCases)    (78K)

•    (78M)
  • details of the PO / Invoice reconciliation use cases was discussed    (78N)
  • PeterYim disagrees that the other two use cases are dropped -- thinks that unnecessarily narrows the scope and the domain we are trying to deal with    (78O)
  • "context" discussed    (78P)
  • Conclusion: it is agreed that we should go back and look at all three use cases (instead of just one.)    (78Q)

•    (78T)
  • the ontology we are creating does not have to conform to the structure of UBL ... (Adam, please elaborate and complete the sentence), but we need to provide:    (78U)
    • mapping    (78V)
    • a migration path    (78W)
    • conscious effort to have working relationship adoption with and by UBL (--PeterYim)    (78X)
    • exception handling (--BoNewman)    (78Y)
    • feedback to UBL consistently (to maintain the communication and the working relationship)    (78Z)

7) Formalization activities    (790)

•    (797)
  • did not get around to discussing the above.    (798)

8) Sponsorship and funding    (799)

•    (79A)
  • BoNewman suggested that we should address this soon.    (79B)

9) Other business    (79C)

10) Next meeting date and adjourn    (79D)

•    (79E)
  • next meeting, same time next week, Thu 2003-08-14 10:30~11:30am PDT    (79F)
  • meeting adjourned 11:31am PDT    (79G)

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 notes taken by PeterYim in real time on the wiki
 ppy / 2003-08-07_11:33am PDT    (79H)