Conference Call 2003-12-04

UBL-Ontology Project Conference Call - Thu 2003-12-04    (837)

Conference Call Details    (838)

• Subject: [UblOntology] project conference call Thu 2003-12-04    (839)
• Comments/Agenda:    (83A)
  • 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.    (83B)
  • Please post your suggested agenda items if you would like to see anything put onto the agenda    (83C)
  • please post or upload any material to be shared to the list, to the wiki or by ftp upload prior to the meeting    (83D)
  • VNC session will be started 5 minutes before the call at: http://vnc2.cim3.net:5800/    (83E)
    • view-only password: "ontolog"    (83F)
    • view-and-control pw: to be supplied during session as needed    (83G)
  • During the call, please browse the wiki page at: http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?Conference_Call_2003-12-04    (83H)
• Date: Thursday, Dec. 4, 2003    (83I)
• Start Time: 10:30 AM Pacific Standard Time    (83J)
• End Time: 11:25 AM Pacific Standard Time    (83K)
• Dial-in Number: 1-702-851-3330 (Las Vegas, Nevada)    (83L)
• Participant Access Code: "031204#"    (83M)

Attendees    (83N)

• Attended:    (83O)
  • CeceliaHickel    (83P)
  • KurtConrad    (83Q)
  • BobSmith    (83R)

• Expecting:    (83S)
  • BobSmith    (83T)
  • KurtConrad    (83U)

• Regrets:    (83V)
  • PeterYim    (83W)
  • BoNewman    (83X)

Agenda Ideas    (83Y)

Agenda & Proceedings    (83Z)

1) Welcome    (840)

• KurtConrad took the chair and welcomed everyone.    (841)

2) Appointment of secretary to take minutes    (842)

• KurtConrad volunteered.    (843)

3) Roll-call of participants    (844)

• See above.    (845)

4) Face-to-face meeting (November 5-7, 2003) http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?OntologWorkshop_Nov_2003    (846)

• Cecelia mentioned US Governent's integrated aquisition environment, which explicitly mentions UBL (http://web-services.gov/)    (847)
  • 2004 agenda mentions need to engage small business. Could be a potential funding source or source of use cases.    (848)
  • Bob: A lot of work going on in Europe that is connected to US and Japanese efforts. If look at W3C Semantic Web membership, will see these organizations listed.    (849)

• Discussion of posting planning materials from Face-to-face    (84A)
  • Cecelia raised idea of splitting off the planning function into a small planning team of interested people (target: 4-6 planners)    (84B)
  • Kurt will post and see of an online conversation develops or whether a planning team is needed    (84C)

• Bob's DTD project    (84D)
  • Bob took the video tapes that Kurt recorded, dubbed to computer and is burning a DVD with the video files    (84E)
  • He will send the DVD to Kurt for testing    (84F)
  • Will someone volunteer to do minor editing (break into smaller pieces for downloading) and possibly even synchronize with slide shows?    (84G)
  • How are these likely to be used?    (84H)
    • Historical background for new people to project. Wiki is a little hard to navigate.    (84I)
    • Training, especially Adam's workshop    (84J)
    • Mine UBL presentations for requirements for our UBL Ontology project    (84K)

• Follow-up TO DOs    (84L)
  • Kurt -- Will post planning notes today    (84M)
  • Bob -- Still tidying Powerpoint, expect to upload next Monday    (84N)
  • Adam -- Ontology tutorial powerpoint file; formalization tutorial SUO-KIF codes    (84O)
  • Bill -- Send picture of co-presenters (Elmo and Cookie Monster) to Peter    (84P)
  • Pat -- Updated Protege version of SUMO ontology and Peter posted it    (84Q)

5) Communication logistics & work protocols    (84R)

6) Use cases (http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?UseCases)    (84S)

• PO / Invoice reconciliation    (84T)

• Context-sensitive address rules    (84U)

• Mapping between representations    (84V)

7) Formalization issues    (84W)

• Kurt will look into creating Wiki tables from Excel spreadsheets to post a revisable status sheet    (84X)

8) Sponsorship and funding    (84Y)

9) Other business    (84Z)

10) Next meeting date and adjourn    (850)