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[ontolog] Member Conference Call - Thu 2006-03-30

Conference Call Details

  • Subject: [ontolog] member conference call Thu 2006-03-30
  • Date: Thursday, Mar. 30, 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)
  • 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_30

Attendees

  • Expecting:
    • ...(add your name here)...

Agenda Ideas (candidate items to be adopted into the agenda for discussion)

  • Plan the next 3 months' speaker and technical discussion sessions
  • follow-ups from the UOS
  • ...(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
  • Scheduled Ontolog Events (point person)
    • Thu 2006.04.13 - invited speaker: Denise Bedford (confirmed)
    • Thu 2006.04.20 - "Ontologizing the Ontolog Content - Session-I" Technical Discussion session (confirmed)
    • Thu 2006.05.11 - DavidFurrucci of IBM Research (Watson) on UIMA - confirmed (EMichaelMaximilien)
    • others: look under item 8 below
  • near future - Roy, Denise, Conor, Jack & DavidFurrucci (on UIMA) - Kurt and Peter will follow-up with these speakers off-line
    • continue discussion under item 8 below
  • 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
  • Upcoming Events of interest

5) Communications, logistics, & work protocols issues

6) Follow-ups from previous calls

  • Ontolog at the UN/CEFACT Mar.2006 Vancouver, Canada meeting - BillMcCarthy
    • Bill was not at the call, we'll look to his report at the next call
  • 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 - see item 8 below
  • UpperOntologySummit - organizing committee report
    • more audio has been made available by NIST/Steve - Peter: they'll be posted soon
    • UOS-organizing commmittee concludes that we should freeze the UOS Joint Communique; any refinement can go into the whitepaper that's going to be worked on
    • will use the Ontolog environment to pursue any follow-ups to UOS
      • the [uos-convene] list, wiki etc. will conitnue to be available for the purpose
    • possible follow-up with NSF
      • Steve: need to be careful from the government ethics standpoint. Leo concurs. This applies to NIST and MITRE.
      • NIST and Ontolog will keep each other posted

8) Key Issues discussion:

  • Planning our events for the next quarter
    • worksheet updated - see: http://ontolog.cim3.net/file/work/Ontolog-planning/Ontolog_Event_Plan_2006_20060309.doc ... working copy
      • confirmed invitation of David Ferrucci of IBM to talk on UIMA 2006.05.11 - thanks to EMichaelMaximilien (who helped us extend the invitation)
      • also confirmed these dates now: 2006.04.13 - DeniseBedford's talk; 2006.04.20 - "Tagging-session-1"
        • Denise will drive this through the [ontolog-forum]
      • we managed to lock in a few dates already, still need to confirm others [attn: Max & Conor - please advise]
        • Need from Max: confirmation on "Tagging-session-2" date and Mike Genesereth invitation/date.
  • from our 2006.02.16 & prior discussion, as well as discussion at this call:
    • "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: April 20, 2006 (confirmed -- Denise / 2006.03.23)
        • candidate panelists: to be discussed ... possibly through a call via the forum
      • 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:
    • Pat Heinig suggested considering having the OSERA work featured in "tagging session-2" also (Peter: concur)
  • (b) Rex Brooks / Bob Smith - ontology application in emergency response technical discussion session
    • June 22, 2006 - Rex and Bob will co-moderate
  • (c) 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
    • Theme: along the lines of "Formal and Informal"

9) New project proposals

10) Sponsorship and funding

  • Steve: consider SBIR (most us-based UO custodians would probably qualify)
  • Peter: try getting a team (subset of UOS-conveners) to start thinking about a joint proposal
    • and then invite someone from NSF over, to join us at a conference call to bounce the idea off him/her.

11) Other business

  • Should we have a joint presence at OIS2006? - OIS2006: 1st International Workshop on Ontologizing Industrial Standards
    • this is exactly what we said we'll strive to do on our charter! - ref: http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?WikiHomePage#nidB
    • November 6-9, 2006 - Tucson, Arizona, USA - colocated with the 25th International Conference on Conceptual Modeling (ER2006)
    • see: http://ontolog.cim3.net/forum//ontolog-forum/2006-03/msg00020.html & http://events.deri.at/ois2006/
    • EMichaelMaximilien is in contact with some of these people ... he can help relay questions if we have any
    • conflict with 5th International Semantic Web Conference (same week, but in Athens, Georgia)
    • abstract deadline is May 1, 2006 (so we still have some time to get organized if we want to really do something)
    • this is definitely relevant to us ... let's think things over and come back for more discussion at the next call
  • 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
    • Leo, Pat, Steve & Peter to try get some interaction on the [uos-convene] list
    • try getting the UOS-conveners together next week (Apr. 6) to explore the possibilities of drawing up a joint proposal

12) Next meeting date and adjourn

  • Our next meeting/callwill be next Thu 2006.04.06, a regular active membership conference call
  • this call adjourned 11:40 am PST

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minutes captured in real time on this wiki by Peter P. Yim / 2006.03.30-11:45am PST



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