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[ontolog] Member Conference Call - Thu 2006-06-22

Conference Call Details

  • Subject: [ontolog] member conference call Thu 2006-06-22
  • Date: Thursday, June 22, 2006
  • Start Time: 10:30 AM PDT / 1:30 PM EDT / 17:30 UTC World Clock
  • Expected Call Duration: 1 hour
  • Dial-in Number: 1-641-696-6600 (Iowa)
  • Participant Access Code: "686564#"
  • Agenda Comments:
    • please post any suggested agenda items to the call wiki page and upload any material to be shared to the list, to the wiki or by [[ToolsCollaboration|WebDAV] upload] prior to the meeting
    • VNC session (if needed) will be started 5 minutes before the call at: http://vnc2.cim3.net:5800/
      • view-only password: "ontolog"
      • view-and-control pw: to be supplied during session as needed
    • Wiki page for this call (i.e. this page) is at: http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2006_06_22

Attendees

Agenda Ideas (candidate items to be adopted into the agenda for discussion)

  • upcoming scheduled event planning & discussion
  • re-open discussion about OIS2006
  • ...(add suggested items here)...

Agenda & Proceedings

1) Welcome & confirmation of agenda

2) Appointment of secretary to take minutes

3) Roll-call of participants

4) Upcoming meeting & event schedule (near future)

  • Scheduled Ontolog Events:
    • Continuation of our "Ontologizing the Ontolog Body of Knowledge" series of talks & discussions - http://ontolog.cim3.net/forum//ontolog-forum/2006-05/msg00019.html
    • Thu 2006.06.29 - Tim Redmond - "Protege Architecture and API" (a session for applications developers)
    • Thu 2006.07.06 - "Ontologizing the Ontolog Body of Knowledge" Discussion Session-2: The Solution Landscape - Moderators (organizers): EMichaelMaximilien & Conor Shankey
      • Session title: "Multifaceted approach to ontologizing the ONTOLOG content rooted in pragmatism, tools, services, and standards, and social collaboration"
      • see: ConferenceCall_2006_06_15
    • Thu 2006.07.13 - Pat Cassidy - "From Controlled Vocabulary to Standard Ontologies" (from the perspective of a formal ontologist)
    • Thu 2006.07.23 - Ontolog F2F Meeting and Workshop colocated with the 9th Protege International Conference (Stanford, CA) - Organizers: Bob Smith & Kurt Conrad
      • we'll hopefully be arranging more functions during this community F2F gathering and the almost weeklong Conference
      • organizers now changed to Bob Smith, Kurt Conrad & Rex Brooks
    • Thu 2006.08.10 - SOA Panel Discussion (covering SOA-RM & SOA-RA) - Moderators (organizers): Duane Nickull & Rex Brooks
    • Thu 2006.08.31 - Ontology Applications in Emergency Response Panel Discussion - Moderators (organizers): Rex Brooks & Bob Smith
  • Other upcoming events of interest

5) Communications, logistics, & work protocols issues - no discussion

6) Follow-ups from previous calls

  • postmortem on last week's Bob Smith & Denise Bedford moderated - "OntologTaxoThesaurus Project Work Session - Categorizing Concepts" - ConferenceCall_2006_06_15
    • vote of thanks to Bob & Denise for a job well done!
    • what was good about it
    • what can be improved
    • what would we do differently the next time
    • discussion
  • Engaging UN/CEFACT
    • Kurt: suggest we schedule a UN/CEFACT-ONTOLOG joint teleconference (hopefully on a Thursday) so that we can do a focused discussion
      • will need to follow-up with BillMcCarthy & Anders Tell
      • Rex: there will be a joint OASIS-ITU conference in Oct. 2006 (UN/CEFACT & ebXML is related somehow)
  • Should we have a joint presence at OIS2006? - OIS2006: 1st International Workshop on Ontologizing Industrial Standards

7) Current Project Status Report

  • Status CctRepresentation and UblOntology project work
  • status of NHIN-RFI & Health-Ont project work
  • status of OntologTaxoThesaurus project work
    • preparing for next week's work session
    • Denise has put together some slides for next week, Bob will circulate to the team

8) Key Issues discussion:

  • OntologWorkshop_July_2006 organizing committee report & discussion - (discussion from previous sessions below)
    • Ontolog Face to Face Workshop see http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?OntologWorkshop_July_2006
      • Key Dates and Expectations, Contingencies (May 29th deadline extensions?)
      • Recruiting efforts
      • Program Committee-Social Committee Logistics and Wiki Support
      • Etc.
      • Denise will probably be able to join us at the July 23 face-to-face
        • Bob will arrange to send her an 'invitation'
      • Steve will consider having people from NIST come join us at the F2F (Rex suggests KC Morris, if possible)
      • Peter: will try to invite SRI people over, since they are going through an exercise rather similar to ours (which culminates in the 7/23 F2F)
      • had some discussion on cadidate participants to the 2F
        • may need to extend the 6/29 CFP
      • need to recruit a champion to work with Kurt and Rex for scheduling some social activities and other meetings - Rex Brooks (Kurt will join them too) will try to get some sugestion from Mark Musen
      • candidates additional meetings: Stanford SMI, KSL; SRI-AI-Lab, EPRI, IBM-Almaden Research Center, PARC; company with Doug Engelbart;
        • Jack Park: SRI receptive to hosting a meeting at the AI Center; and see the value to arranging some presentations by Ontolog members and their work (e.g. intro to Ontolog, Denise, SOA, ...) to the AI Center people during the meeting.
          • members of the organizing committee will continue to pursue this with Jack.

9) New project proposals

10) Sponsorship and funding

11) Other business

  • In view of the fact that only 3 of us were here. we only briefly discussed some of the people we might invite as presenters to Max's 2006.07.06 "Ontologizing Ontolog" Discussion Session-2
    • Max will be making the invitations this weekend
      • Peter / Max: we'll look into inviting Tim Redmond or Tania Tudorache of the Protege team to Max's 2006.07.06 panel

12) Next meeting date and adjourn

  • Our next meeting/call will be next Thu 2006.06.29 - with invited speaker Tim Redmond from Stanford, presenting: "Developing Applications in Protégé" - ref: ConferenceCall_2006_06_29
  • this call adjourned 11:00 am PDT

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minutes captured in real time on this wiki by Peter P. Yim / 2006.06.22-11:03am PDT



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