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[ontolog] Member Conference Call - Thu 2005-10-06

Conference Call Details

  • Subject: [ontolog] member conference call Thu 2005-10-06
  • 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.
    • In particular, we will be devoting a portion of this call to work out a list of (a) speakers we plan to invite, and (b) technical discussion topics, for the next few months.
    • 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_10_06
  • Date: Thursday, Oct. 6, 2005
  • Start Time: 10:30 AM PDT / 1:30 PM EDT / 6:30 PM UTC 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

  • Kurt Conrad took the chair and welcomed everyone.
  • skipping all items and go directly to agenda item 8. That's the only thing we'll try to cover today.

2) Appointment of secretary to take minutes

3) Roll-call of participants

4) Upcoming meeting & event schedule (near future)

  • Reference: 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 - candidates:
    • Adam: need OWL & SWRL for OWL ontologies to really be useful
    • Nicolas Rouquette -- other 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, independent 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"
      • Duane Nickull: "Ontological and Semantic Implementation Panel" - some time in the future - Duane will start a page in preparation on it
    • 2005.09.01: EMichaelMaximilien: suggest we use some sort of IM tool (or other real time signaling) so that the moderator could know who has a question.
    • Rex asked for the availability of a next slot ...
    • Kurt: likely in November
  • Discussion on upcoming invitations to next week - to be covered under item 8 below

5) Communications, logistics, & work protocols issues

6) Follow-ups from previous calls

  • 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
  • status of NHIN-RFI & Health-Ont project work
    • representation and paper submission to FCW Government Health IT Conference - Nov. 17~18, 2005, Washington, D.C.
      • Rex: _____
    • Kurt: Bob and Kurt had discussed possibilities of engaging people (with affinity in ontology and semantic technologies) from Intel now that Craig Barrett (Intel CEO) is in the AHIC Commission.
      • solicitation to members of this community to suggest good candidates we should engage
  • UBL liaison report
  • SICoP liaison report
  • Planning team report

8) project work session / discussion - working out our invited speaker & discussion topics for the next few months

9) New project proposals

10) Sponsorship and funding

11) Other business

12) Next meeting date and adjourn

  • regular call adjourned 11:30am PDT
  • next call will be on Thu 2005-10-13 starting at 10:30 am PDT - Professor Barry Smith will be speaking on "How to Do Things with Paper: The Ontology of Documents and the Technologies of Identification" - see: ConferenceCall_2005_10_13 ... see you there. RSVP!

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minutes captured in real time on this wiki by Peter P. Yim / 2005.10.06-11:33am



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