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[ontolog] Member Conference Call - Thu 2007-06-14

Regular operations planning and review meeting (for active members)

Conference Call Details

  • Date: Thursday, June 14, 2007
  • Start Time: 10:30am PDT / 1:30pm EDT / 6:30pm BST / 17:30 GMT/UTC
  • Expected Call Duration: ~1.0 hours
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Attendees

  • Expecting:
    • ... RSVP by adding your name here, or e-mail <peter.yim@cim3.com> ...
  • Regrets:

Agenda Ideas

  • Peter P. Yim: event planning for the next quarter
  • Peter Brown: revisiting "split up" of the discussion forum
  • ... (add your suggested agenda items here)

Agenda and Proceedings

1) Welcome & confirmation of agenda

2) Appointment of secretary to take minutes

3) Roll-call of participants

  • Welcome to new Ontolog community members

4) Upcoming meeting & event schedule (near future)

  • Scheduled Ontolog Events:
    • Thursday, 28-Jun-2007 - We had the 8th Event in the "Database And Ontology" Mini-Series - The session was co-chaired by Dr. Matthew West and Dr. Susie Stephens. Dr. Souripriya Das and Dr. Melliyal Annamalai from Oracle were their invited speakers who gave a talk on: "Building Database Infrastructure for Managing Semantic Data". ... Please refer to details at the session wiki page, at: ConferenceCall_2007_06_28 ... Audio archives of the session is now available!    - note updated info
    • Thursday, 05-Jul-2007 - Dr. Matthew West presented the 9th Event in the "Database And Ontology" Mini-Series - Chris Partridge from the BORO Center, UK was our invited speaker. He gave a talk on "Data and process revisited: ontology driving a paradigm shift in the development of business application systems." ... Please refer to details at the session wiki page, at: ConferenceCall_2007_07_05 ... Audio archives of the session is now available!   
    • Thursday, 12-Jul-2007 - Dr. Susie Stephens and Dr. Matthew West presented the 10th Event in the "Database And Ontology" Mini-Series - Dr. John Sowa from VivoMind Intelligence was be our invited speaker. Dr. Sowa gave a talk on: "Analogical Reasoning With and About Databases and Knowledge Bases". Please refer to details at the session wiki page, at: ConferenceCall_2007_07_12 ... Audio archives of the session is now available!    - still need to confirm with John on the date.
    • 2nd session by Oracle folks with Alan Wu as main speaker, and possibly others. The session will cover their OWL-related work, and is tentatively scheduled for Thu 2007.10.18

5) Communications, logistics, & work protocols issues

6) Follow-ups from previous calls

  • what else should we do about "more work on the Summit Framework and metrics"?
  • Ken: reformatting the summit survey results in preparation to get artifacts populated into the framework
    • consider using google spreadsheet as the medium to work on the collaborative population exercise

7) Current Project Status Report

  • Current Project Status Review:
  • Status CctRepresentation and UblOntology project work.
  • status of OntologTaxoThesaurus project work
    • next week's call (2007.06.21) will be devoted to revisiting this project
      • Ken will try to have the survey results up befoe the call, so it can be discussed
  • status of the ONION project startup.
    • probably a good idea to get them to do:
      • (a) an update and progress status
      • (b) try populating their ONION ontology into the Summit 'Framework' (like the others artifacts we attempted on, during OntologySummit2007) - ref: OntologySummit2007_Population_Session
  • UBL liaison report
  • SICoP / ONTAC liaison report
  • NCOR liaison report
  • Planning team report

8) Key Issues discussion:

  • Event planning for the next quarter
    • see above
  • Revisiting "split up" of the discussion forum
    • the consensus of those at this call was to keep it as it is now
    • we could invite Peter Brown to start a dialog with more people to see if others concur

9) New project proposals.

10) Sponsorship and funding.

11) Other business.

  • SusanTurnbull's CEW#63 (2007.07.17) - Peter will try to put together the panel before end June
    • Ken planning to attend remotely
    • Doug may show up in person, but cannot confirm until early July

12) Next meeting date and adjourn

  • Our next meeting/call will be the Thu 2007.06.21, same time.
    • Key discussion will be on the OntologTaxoThesaurus project. Details will be at ConferenceCall_2007_06_21 closer to the time ... talk to you then!
  • this call session adjourned 11:42 am PDT

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Attendees are requested to review the notes above, help clean it up, and make amendments and edits to better

reflect the proceedings of the session as they see fit (particularly where they are personally involved). =ppy



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