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[ontolog] Member Conference Call - Thu 2006-08-03

Conference Call Details

  • Subject: [ontolog] member conference call Thu 2006-08-03
  • Date: Thursday, Aug. 3, 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 (under "Agenda Ideas" below) 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_08_03

Attendees

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

  • postmortem on the OntologWorkshop_July_2006 and Face-to-Face event(s)
  • postmortem of the "Ontologizing the Ontolog Body of Knowledge" series of events - ref: Ontologizing Ontolog
  • upcoming scheduled event planning & discussion
  • ...(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)

5) Communications, logistics, & work protocols issues

  • Peter solicits project team members to use the mailing list (archived forum) so that we have a more transparent process in the project development.
  • Rex will be posting the notes from the interactive portion of the 2006.07.23 workshop over the coming weekend.

6) Follow-ups from previous calls

  • postmortem on the OntologWorkshop_July_2006 and Face-to-Face event(s)
    • vote of thanks to the Organizing Committee: Bob Smith, Kurt Conrad and Rex Brooks for a job well done!
    • what was good about it
      • Doug: was there at the first half; thought it was very good
    • what can be improved
      • assure venue/facility suport all necessary speaker needs
      • formal ontological approaches were not as well represented as the natural and informal ontology contingent
    • what would we do differently the next time
      • consider: less formal bird-of-a-feather type gathering; or local beer-and-pretzel gatherings on a local basis
      • having to pay to attend did pose a barrier
    • discussion
      • Input from BillJarrold (2006.08.02): General feedback was it went fine. The priorities ranking discussion was a little difficult...it felt akin to asking a question like "What is more important to humans, eating fruit or eating vegetables?" Answer: they are both essential. It was good that we weren't rushed. There was a good amount of time to exchange ideas -- this is often not the case in different conferences. I really

liked the open ended session at the end where we went around and described what people were working on. That is one specific example of how more time to exchange ideas was good. Thanks, Bill / Wed, 2 Aug 2006 16:00:39 -0700 & Thu, 3 Aug 2006 11:37 -0700

    • follow-ups
      • Steve: we explored doing a remote, but wasn't able to put that together quickly (but that turned out to be a blessing in disguise)
        • Steve / Peter: will set out an Ontolog-NIST joint call session to plan it out
      • audio archives ETA (Kurt)
  • postmortem of the "Ontologizing the Ontolog Body of Knowledge" series of events - ref: Ontologizing Ontolog
    • what was good about it
    • what can be improved
      • Peter: still hope we can have more projects going
    • follow-up plan and action
      • will schedule this for some other 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 - this item was missed during our 2006.06.22 call

7) Current Project Status Report

  • Status CctRepresentation and UblOntology project work
    • Steve: some people (like EvanWallace) at NIST are working on ebXML and use of ebXML registry, they would be interested in what has been done
  • 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
  • UBL liaison report
  • SICoP liaison report
  • NCOR relationship
  • NIST Collaboration
    • we will do a Tue 2006.08.22 Ontolog call (updated: was Thu 2006.08.24 previously; time unchanged) to plan out a short series of events (theme, program) that NIST and Ontolog can collaborate on in the short term (this could be a possible 3-way - NIST-Ontolog-NCOR - collaboration too). The series may possibly be "Test & Evaluation of Ontology and Tools" and/or some other theme of mutual interest.
    • Steve and Peter to get together and brainstorm about it, as a preparation for that call.
  • Planning team report

8) Key Issues discussion:

9) New project proposals

10) Sponsorship and funding

11) Other business

12) Next meeting date and adjourn

  • Our next meeting/call will be next Thu 2006.08.10 - with Duane Nickull & RexBrooks' Scheduled Discussion Session on: "Ontologies and Service Oriented Architecture" - ref: ConferenceCall_2006_08_10
  • this call adjourned 11:29 am PDT

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minutes captured in real time on this wiki by Peter P. Yim / 2006.08.03-11:31am PDT



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