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[ontolog] Member Conference Call - Thu 2005-08-04

Conference Call Details

  • Subject: [ontolog] member conference call Thu 2005-08-04
  • 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_08_04
  • Date: Thursday, Aug. 04, 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

Agenda Ideas

Agenda & Proceedings

1) Welcome & confirmation of agenda

2) Appointment of secretary to take minutes

3) Roll-call of participants

  • see above
  • welcome to first time regular meeting participants Joe, Michael & Elisa

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
  • Scheduled Discussions for the next 2 months (DavidWhitten: maybe we should designate a moderator, and then coordinate the event from there, in a fashion similar to speaker events.)
    • August 25, 2005 discussion session - moderator: Rex Brooks - subject: Healthcare Informatics - see: ConferenceCall_2005_08_25/Prep
    • Oct. 27 2005 - Discussion on OWL/S, SWSI - FLOWS, and WSMO ... (need proper title) - Moderator: Nicolas Rouquette
    • Adam: need OWL & SWRL for OWL ontologies to really be useful
    • Nicolas Rouquette -- topics lined up?
    • 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
    • Rex: possibility of working with Duane on a follow-up to the last SOA discussion
    • Rex suggsted we should also invite UDDI and XMDR people, and possibly to have all three parties (regrep, uddi & xmdr) on a panel
    • we will not schedule a technical discussion in Sep. 2005
    • candidates for November, 2005
        • Rex: propose "Emergency Response"
        • Kurt: we should revisit "CCTS ontology" for Nov. (even Sep.) - we'll talk to Duane again if he shows up next week; if he doesn't Kurt, will ping Duane.
        • Anders: we should have a "Tools / Testing" discussion
        • Kurt: "on metamodels, idependent of the representation" (at a level that allows us to avoid the language war)
          • Bob: as a segway into things like pi-calculus, tec.
        • Peter P. Yim: "moving from data standards to data-model- and semantic-model-driven eBusiness standards"
  • Upcoming Events of interest
    • Aug. 16, 12005 - Collaborative Expedition Workshop #43 (at NSF) - ref: http://ontolog.cim3.net/forum//ontolog-forum/2005-08/msg00007.html
    • Sep. 14, 2005 - 2nd DRM Public Forum (Washington DC) (Rex, Mark & Peter)
    • Sep. 12~16, 2005 - UN/CEFACT Forum - (Lyon, France) (Anders, Bill, Duane)
    • OASIS ebXML registry-repository webinar - Sep. or Oct. (Monica, Joe)

5) Communications, logistics, & work protocols issues

6) Follow-ups from previous calls - ITEM SKIPPED

  • possible meeting/call to follow-up with UDEF folks to review Ontolog's comments (suggested by MikeDaconta) [attn: DuaneNickull]
  • Bob and Nicolas will work on the ontological lessons learned in our exercise on RegularConferenceCall scheduling

7) Current Project Status Report

  • Status of Protege-KIF project work
    • Pat is working with Holger on debugging
  • UBL liaison report
  • SICoP liaison report
  • status report from Planning team

8) project work session / discussion

9) New project proposals

10) Sponsorship and funding

11) Other business

12) Next meeting date and adjourn

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

ppy / 2005.08.04-11:40 am PDT