Conference Call 2003-12-11

UBL-Ontology Project Conference Call - Thu 2003-12-11    (851)

Conference Call Details    (852)

• Subject: [UblOntology] project conference call Thu 2003-12-11    (853)
• Comments/Agenda:    (854)
  • 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.    (855)
  • Please post your suggested agenda items if you would like to see anything put onto the agenda    (856)
  • please post or upload any material to be shared to the list, to the wiki or by ftp upload prior to the meeting    (857)
  • VNC session will be started 5 minutes before the call at: http://vnc2.cim3.net:5800/    (858)
    • view-only password: "ontolog"    (859)
    • view-and-control pw: to be supplied during session as needed    (85A)
  • During the call, please browse the wiki page at: http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?Conference_Call_2003-12-11    (85B)
• Date: Thursday, Dec. 11, 2003    (85C)
• Start Time: 10:30 AM Pacific Standard Time    (85D)
• End Time: 11:25 AM Pacific Standard Time    (85E)
• Dial-in Number: 1-702-851-3330 (Las Vegas, Nevada)    (85F)
• Participant Access Code: "031211#"    (85G)

Attendees    (85H)

• Attended:    (85I)
  • PeterYim    (85J)
  • KurtConrad    (85K)
  • BobSmith    (85L)
  • CeceliaHickel    (85M)

• Expecting:    (85N)
  • PatCassidy    (85O)

• Regrets:    (85P)
  • BillMcCarthy    (85Q)
  • MonicaMartin    (85R)
  • AdamPease    (85S)

Agenda Ideas    (85T)

• follow-up on the upcoming session program/agenda (this was suggested by BillMcCarthy - this way, we could give allow non-regular participants to decide whether they should call in).    (85U)
  • See: http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?Conference_Call_2003-11-20#nid079    (85V)
  • please add the following to the above list:    (85W)
    • invite someone from the eGov SBIR to talk to and discuss with the group    (85X)
    • invite someone from NIST to talk to and discuss with the group    (85Y)
    • (... more ... please add your suggestions here)    (85Z)
    • invite JohnYunker and MonicaMartin (and BillMcCarthy) to talk about ebXML (this was brought up by Bill during the F2F)    (860)

Agenda & Proceedings    (861)

1) Welcome    (862)

• KurtConrad took the chair and welcomed everyone.    (863)

2) Appointment of secretary to take minutes    (864)

• PeterYim volunteered.    (865)

3) Roll-call of participants    (866)

• see above.    (867)

4) Follow-on from November face-to-face meeting http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?OntologWorkshop_Nov_2003    (868)

• Planning exercise    (869)
  • seems like it will be the group that were the the F2F that will be continuing to do it.    (86A)
  • Peter, Bob & Kurt all agreed that this should be continued and finished    (86B)
  • Kurt will ping the rest of the people who weren't at the call; Bob will ping Bill.    (86C)
    • remember include people who were on the phone: PatCassidy, MonicaMartin, JohnYunker & LeoObrst    (86D)

• Video Recordings    (86E)
  • Bob has converted the content into a DVD (about 1.3GB in .wmv format) that is playable on a PC    (86F)
  • quality is not ideal ... we'll leave this as is for archival purposes.    (86G)
    • lesson learned: next time we do it ... be careful about lighting and try to capture the audio better -- that way, at least we could stream the audio later for anyone who is interested    (86H)

• Norwegian Project    (86I)
  • we'll be happy to collaborate, and for the moment, serve as a sounding board    (86J)
  • Bob and Kurt will take some time to review the Norwegian white paper    (86K)

• Schedule follow-on events    (86L)
  • Leo's presentation    (86M)
  • Review of Pat's SUMO / Protege work    (86N)
  • Presenation from eGov SBIR representative    (86O)
  • Presentation from someone from NIST    (86P)

  (discussion of the above postponed)    (86Q)

• Follow-up TO DOs    (86R)
  • Kurt -- Post planning notes    (86S)
  • Bob -- Powerpoint presentation    (86T)
  • Adam -- Ontology tutorial powerpoint file; formalization tutorial-2 SUO-KIF codes    (86U)
  • Bill -- Send picture of co-presenters (Elmo and Cookie Monster) to Peter    (86V)
  • Pat -- Updated Protege version of SUMO ontology and Peter posted it    (86W)

5) Communication logistics & work protocols    (86X)

  (discussion of the above postponed)    (86Y)

6) Use cases (http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?UseCases)    (86Z)

  (discussion of the above postponed)    (870)

7) Formalization issues    (871)

• How to continue from Adam's workshop at face-to-face?    (872)
  • we'll need to address this in the planning exercise, and come up with an implementable work plan.    (873)

8) Sponsorship and funding    (874)

  (discussion of the above postponed)    (875)

9) Other business    (876)

  (discussion of the above postponed)    (877)

10) Next meeting date and adjourn    (878)

• next meeting same time, Thu 2003.12.18 10:30-11:30am PST    (879)

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 minutes captured in real time on this wiki by PeterYim
 ppy / 2003.12.11_11:30 PDT    (87A)