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[ontolog] Member Conference Call - Thu 2005-06-02

Conference Call Details

  • Subject: [ontolog] member conference call Thu 2005-06-02
  • 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.
    • 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_2005_06_02
  • Date: Thursday, Jun. 02, 2005
  • Start Time: 10:30 AM PDT / 1:30 PM EDT World Clock
  • Expected Call Duration: 1 ~ 1.5 hour
  • Dial-in Number: 1-702-851-3330 (Las Vegas, Nevada)
  • Participant Access Code: "686564#"

Attendees

  • Expecting:

Agenda Ideas

Agenda & Proceedings

1) Welcome & confirmation of agenda

  • participants went around and introduced themselves
  • Kurt Conrad took the chair and welcomed everyone.

2) Appointment of secretary to take minutes

3) Roll-call of participants

4) Upcoming meeting & event schedule (near future)

  • Nominal meeting types (on a monthly basis):
    • member regular meeting
    • invited speaker session
    • scheduled discussion
    • project review
    • workshop / work session
    • planning
  • Invited Speaker Schedule for the next 3~6 months
    • for Jun. 2005 - David Whitten & ChrisRichardson from WorldVistA - Thu 2005-06-16 - confirmed (-Need input from speakers / ppy)
      • Marc told us about the institutional vehicle that these VistA group has that is now approved to be the buffer between the government and
    • for July 2005 - Anders Tell from Business Collaboration Toolsmiths AB - Thu 2005-07-14 - confirmed (proposed: DuaneNickull)
    • future candidates speakers:
    • new suggestions:
      • a panel with speaker representating: SUMO, OpenCyc Upper Ontology, DOLCE, ... (suggested by PeterYim)
        • possibly teaming up with SICoP and their CUO-WG; after independent sessions on Cyc and DOLCE
      • Monica: suggest inviting someone from the [regrep] group
      • Jon Bosak of Sun on OASIS Process - suggested (KurtConrad / SusanTurnbull) at our 2005.03.03 Planning Session - Susan: the 2005.09.23 CEW on implication on governance ... would be ideal. [Kurt will follow up with Jon and Susan]
        • possibility of this rolling into a joint SICoP or CEW-multiple CoP Best Practice event (suggested: Susan Turnbull / 2005.03.03)
      • possibility (suggested by Peter): request Mark Musen to help invite Jim Hendler to speak in August 2005
  • Scheduled Discussions for the next 2 months
    • June 2005 - Service Sciences - Moderator: BillMcCarthy - Thursday ConferenceCall_2005_06_30
    • see: Ontolog Discussion
    • David: maybe we should designate a moderator, and then coordinate the event from there, in a fashion similar to speaker events.
    • more work/discussion on OWL
      • Adam: need OWL & SWRL for OWL ontologies to really be useful
    • Nicolas Rouquette has a couple of topics lined up too ... we'll talk about those when he is at the call.
    • Rex: possibility of working with Duane on a follow-up

5) Communications, logistics, & work protocols issues

  • Regular call time revisited:
    • received one more input lately - from Steve Ray:
      • Steve: "...if you held your regular Ontolog sessions on any of Monday, Tuesday or Friday afternoons, I would be a regular attendee. (Of course I can't promise attendance for every meeting, but it works much better for my schedule). ..."

6) Follow-ups from previous calls

7) Current Project Status Report

    • BrandNiemann's request for comments as a follow-up on the 2004.12.01 semantic hatrmonization panel, relating to SUMO, UDEF, ebXML etc.
      • deadline for input will be Sat 2005.06.04 5:00pm PDT
      • Peter will roll things up for submission to Mike (or if Adam' is the only input, then Adam will do it.)
  • Status of Protege-KIF project work
    • no report
  • status of NHIN-RFI & Health-Ont project work
    • Report on the convener's call 2005.05.31 - ref: NhinRfi/ConferenceCall_2005_05_31
    • scheduling a call session with Marc Wine
    • next regular meeting: next Thu 2005.06.09, let's devote that to mainly discussing "what's next" for our [health-ont] effort - Bob Smith to chair.
  • UBL liaison report
    • no report
  • ONTAC-WG Liaison
    • no report
  • status report from Planning team
    • shooting for next Thu 2005.06.09 11:45am PDT (after the regular call)

8) project work session / discussion

  • no discussion

9) New project proposals

  • responding to the FEA call for contribution and comments to the DRM
    • agian, check out (and try to attend) hte 2005.06.13 "DRM Public Forum" - see: http://colab.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?DataReferenceModelPublicForum_2005_06_13
    • Susan: in addition to ad hoc comments from individuals, I would welcome an organized review and comment effort from Ontolog (maybe not as formal as the NHIN-RFI response). Try to schedule the comments so that they could be brought up during the monthly DRM public workshops.

10) Sponsorship and funding

    • no discussion

11) Other business

    • no discussion

12) Next meeting date and adjourn

  • call adjourned 10:40 PST
  • next call will be on Thu 2005.06.09 starting at 10:30am PST

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minutes captured in real time on this wiki by Peter P. Yim

=ppy / 2005.06.02 11:45am PST



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