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[ontolog] Member Conference Call - Thu 2006-03-09

Conference Call Details

  • Subject: [ontolog] member conference call Thu 2006-03-09
  • Date: Thursday, Mar. 9, 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: 1-641-696-6600 (Iowa) - note: new call-in number
  • Participant Access Code: "686564#"
  • 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_03_09

Attendees

Agenda Ideas

  • Plan the next 3 months' speaker and technical discussion sessions
  • ...(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)

  • Reference: Nominal meeting types (on a monthly basis):
    • member regular meeting
    • invited speaker session
    • scheduled discussion
    • project review
    • workshop / work session
    • planning
  • near future - Conor, Jack & Roy - Kurt and Peter will follow-up with these speakers off-line
  • EMichaelMaximilien will ping Mike Genesereth and some potential UIMA speakers on behalf of the community
  • Scheduled Discussions for the next 3 months - * = extended discussion under item 8 below:
    • EMichaelMaximilien / Nicolas Rouquette / Denise Bedford / Peter P. Yim - tagging the Ontolog (knowledge repository) content*
    • Rex Brooks / Bob Smith - ontology application in emergency response*
    • Other 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?
      • 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"
      • more session for the "Ontolgy Applications and Implementations" series
      • (new! 2006.01.26) - tagging multimedia and other Ontolog content for podcast & semantic search

5) Communications, logistics, & work protocols issues

6) Follow-ups from previous calls

  • Engaging UN/CEFACT:
    • how about BillMcCarthy ... are you planning to be there at Vancouver, Bill?
    • Conor Shankey (who is in Vancouver) has graciously agreed to represent the community, if Bill is not available.
  • Presenting at the OASIS Symposium 2006 (9-12 May 2006, San Francisco, CA) - Proposal submission deadline: 20 December 2005 - discussion postponed
    • Duane and Rex are submitting, requesting that they cover our (Ontolog) work as a sidebar
      • Rex will be presenting - he will put in a good word for this community
  • Bob and Nicolas will work on the ontological lessons learned in our exercise on RegularConferenceCall scheduling -- (Bob / Nicolas - please bring closure to this item) - discussion postponed (unless we have time)

7) Current Project Status Report - discussion postponed

  • 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

8) Key Issues discussion:

  • Planning our events for the next quarter
  • from our 2006.02.16 & prior discussion
    • "Tagging Ontolog Content" Discussion Sessions - a.k.a. " A pilot exercise toward building an ontology application"
      • session 1: what do we want to do? (i.e. to do with the content we are tagging)
        • moderators: Denise, Max & Nicolas
        • date: 2nd week April 2006
        • candidate panelists:
      • session 2: what are the technologies available? ... and what are our constraints and choices of technology to get the job done?
        • moderators: Max & Conor
        • date: end April or early May
        • candidate panelists:
  • Discussion
    • RoyRoebuck - let's develop physical representations of the range of models/technology available now (placeholder only, Roy, please expand on this thought.)
  • Leo Obrst: NCOR is planning a Ontology summer school at Buffalo - our interest would be both to learn and to teach
  • Kurt Conrad: we have about 12 Ontolog folks at SemTech2006, maybe we can do some get together when they convene next year

(b) Rex Brooks / Bob Smith - ontology application in emergency response technical discussion session

  • possibly May - Rex and Bob will co-moderate

(c) Do we want to do another Ontolog face-to-face workshop at the Ninth International Protege Conference that is scheduled to be held July 23-26, 2006 in Stanford, California? -- ref: http://ontolog.cim3.net/forum//ontolog-forum/2006-02/msg00028.html

    • definitely want to do this - consider to have Bob & Kurt lead this
  • project work session / discussion - Beginning of Year Planning for Ontolog -- to be postponed to the next membership conference call - discussion postponed (unless we have time)
    • SWOT Analysis
      • strengths
      • weaknesses
      • opportunities
      • threats
  • initiatives for this year
  • action plans

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 / 2006.03.09-11:21 am PST



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