Ontolog Forum
[ontolog] Member Conference Call - Thu 2006-01-05
Conference Call Details
- Subject: [ontolog] member conference call Thu 2006-01-05
- 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_2006_01_05
- Date: Thursday, Jan. 5, 2006
- Start Time: 10:30 AM PST / 1:30 PM EST / 18:30 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
- Attended:
- Expecting:
- Kurt Conrad (chair)
- Steve Ray
- EMichaelMaximilien
- ...(add your name here)...
- Regrets:
Agenda Ideas
- ...(add suggested items here)...
Agenda & Proceedings
Call cancelled due to lack of quorum. All following agenda items postponed.
1) Welcome & confirmation of agenda
- _____ took the chair and welcomed everyone.
2) Appointment of secretary to take minutes
- _____ volunteered
3) Roll-call of participants
- see above
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 Ontolog Events
- Thu Jan. 12, 2006 - Leo Obrst - "What is an ontology? - A Briefing on the Range of Semantic Models" - confirmed (PeterYim)
- Thu Feb. 2, 2006 - Nicola Guarino - "DOLCE" (to-be-finalized) - confirmed (LeoObrst)
- Thu Feb. 9, 2006 - Asuman Dogac - "Exploiting ebXML Registry Semantics in the eHealth Domain" - confirmed (MonicaMartin)
- Thu Mar. 16, 2006 - UpperOntologySummit - Moderator: Steve Ray - organizing committee formed and working on it
- Invited Speaker Schedule for the next 3~6 months
- Candidate -
- SimonBuckinghamShum of the Compendium Institute ( ? ; ref. post from ScottLHolmes & PeterYim's response)
- LarryReeker of NIST (suggested by SusanTurnbull)
- John Sowa (suggested by BillMcCarthy)
- other suggestions:
- Monica: suggest inviting someone from the [regrep] group
- Rex suggsted we should also invite UDDI and XMDR people, and possibly to have all three parties (regrep, uddi & xmdr) on a panel
- Peter also suggested that we should invite Dieter Fensel to talk to us some time
- Rex / Peter: XMDR - Bruce Bargmeyer or someone from his XMDR team
- Peter P. Yim / Elisa Kendall: Pat Hayes, DeborahMcGuinness
- To be brought up for discussion:
- Chris Menzel: Bill Andersen
- Brand Niemann / Mark Musen / Peter P. Yim: Frank Hartel (NIH/NCI)
- Brand Niemann / Peter P. Yim: RoyRoebuck
- Duane Nickull: suggesting candidates from Microsoft - Phil Berstein & Sergey Melnik - ref: http://ontolog.cim3.net/forum//ontolog-forum/2005-08/msg00027.html
- Duane Nickull: EricMiller, Tim Berners-Lee of W3C
- Chris Menzel & Peter P. Yim: Chris Menzel some time early 2006 - on some of the work he is doing at Boeing)
- Peter Brown & Peter P. Yim (new!): Peter Brown some time early 2006 - on the EU project that Peter Brown has been working on in Austria: of building an "eGovernment Resources Network" - the issues relating to handling the exchange of reference information about eGovernment services across the continent - in many languages. This could serve as an interesting case study of what we are looking for from so-called "semantic web services".
- Brand Niemann (new! input/2005.10.15): EricPeterson - who's been working on an OWL version of the FEA-DRM and who will lead the COSMO development subgroup in the newly formed SICoP / ONTAC-WG
- Mills Davis (new! / 2005.11.26) - Conor Shankey (CEO, Visual Knowledge)
- Peter P. Yim (new! / 2005.11.28) - Adam Cheyer, SRI, on the CALO project
- Peter P. Yim (new! Prompted by Doug Lenat's talk) - Mike Genesereth (director of the Stanford Logic Group)
- Bob Smith / Peter P. Yim / EMichaelMaximilien (new! / 2006.01.09) - Tom Gruber
- suggest we also try to invite candidate speakers to join us at weekly calls and other ontolog events so that they get more familiar with the community and vice versa
- Candidate -
- Scheduled Discussions for the next 2 months - candidates:
- 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
- Adam: need OWL & SWRL for OWL ontologies to really be useful
- Nicolas Rouquette -- other topics lined up?
- Other candidates:
- 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"
- candidate panelists: BruceBarqmeyer, Mark Crawford, Elisa Kendall, Adam Pease, Mike Daconta, Jim Hendler, Steve Ray (moderator?)
- maybe a joint SICoP-Ontolog event, as part of another Collaborative Expedition Workshop?
- more session for the "Ontolgy Applications and Implementations" series
- Upcoming Events of interest
- SusanTurnbull's CEW#47 - Tue 2006.01.24 at NSF (Ballston, VA) & via Remote Access - see: http://colab.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ExpeditionWorkshop/AdvancingCredibleCommitments_AgileSensing_BootstrappingServiceOrientedArchitecture_2006_01_24
5) Communications, logistics, & work protocols issues
6) Follow-ups from previous calls
- Reveiw of the Thu 2005.12.15 "Ontolgy Applications and Implementations" session
- what was good
- what needs improvement
- how would we do it differently next time
- other inputs
- session with UN/CEFACT on CCTS 3.0 recommendations
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- they are interested to have us present at their Conference on Mar. 13~17, 2006 in Vancouver, Canada (partial conflict with the UpperOntologySummit of Thu 2006.03.16)
- would be wonderful if we can do a "What is an Ontology?" like what Leo is going to present on Jan. 12, 2006
- we should invite them [attn: Kurt]
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- Presenting at the OASIS Symposium 2006 (9-12 May 2006, San Francisco, CA) - Proposal submission deadline: 20 December 2005
- Duane and Rex are submitting, requesting that they cover our (Ontolog) work as a sidebar
- anyone from here going to present?
- Bob and Nicolas will work on the ontological lessons learned in our exercise on RegularConferenceCall scheduling -- (Bob / Nicolas - please bring closure to this item)
7) Current Project Status Report
- Status CCT-Representation and UBL-Ontology project work
- Requirements issues (ref: http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?UseCases)
- Formalization issues
- [CCT-Rep] status report
- Status of Protege-KIF project work
- status of NHIN-RFI & Health-Ont project work
- UBL liaison report
- SICoP liaison report
- NCOR relationship - pending
- Planning team report
- UpperOntologySummit - organizing committee report
8) project work session / discussion -
9) New project proposals
10) Sponsorship and funding
11) Other business
12) Next meeting date and adjourn
- regular call adjourned _____ am PST
- next call will be on Thu 2006-01-12 starting at 10:30 am PST - Leo Obrst of MITRE will be speaking on "What is an ontology? - A Briefing on the Range of Semantic Models" - see: ConferenceCall_2006_01_12 ... see you there. RSVP!
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