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[ontolog] Member Conference Call - Thu 2006-05-18

Conference Call Details

  • Subject: [ontolog] member conference call Thu 2006-05-18
  • Date: Thursday, May 18, 2006
  • Start Time: 10:30 AM PDT / 1:30 PM EDT / 17:30 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.
    • in particular, we will devote time into the planning of upcoming Ontolog Events
    • 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_05_18

Attendees

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

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

  • more planning discussion on the events and the July 2006 Ontolog face-to-face meeting (colocated and as a part of the Protege International Workshop) at Stanford, CA
  • Bob Smith:
    • The OASIS Interoperability conference in general, and
    • the ebXML efforts may deserve some discussion.
    • Also, it might be helpful to express the direction in which the Taxo_Thesaurus Project is going, with reference to the following week's discussion.
  • ...(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 2006.06.08 - "Ontologizing the Ontolog Body of Knowledge" Discussion Session-2 - Moderators (organizers): EMichaelMaximilien & Conor Shankey
      • Max: may want to postpone. Will discuss under item 8 on this agenda.
    • a Thu in Jun. 1, 2006 TBC - Matthew West - on "ISO 18876 - integration of industrial data for exchange access and sharing (IIDEAS)" - ref: http://ontolog.cim3.net/forum//ontolog-forum/2006-04/msg00092.html
    • Thu 2006.06.22 - Ontology Applications in Emergency Response Panel Discussion - Moderators (organizers): Rex Brooks & Bob Smith
      • Peter: may request shuffling this schedule too. Will discuss under item 8 on this agenda.
    • Thu 2006.07.23 - Ontolog F2F Meeting and Workshop colocated with the 7th Protege International Conference (Stanford, CA) - Organizers: Bob Smith & Kurt Conrad
    • Thu 2006.08.24 - SOA Panel Discussion (covering SOA-RM & SOA-RA) - Moderators (organizers): Duane Nickull & Rex Brooks
  • Scheduled Discussions for the next 3 months:
    • see above
    • Other candidates:
      • Rex suggsted we should also invite UDDI and XMDR people, and possibly to have all three parties (regrep, uddi & xmdr) on a panel
      • 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
      • Rex Brooks (new! - 2006.05.18) - stake in the ground - Let's do a discussion session on "registries" - maybe in Sep. 2006?
        • (Rex / Max): not everyone are advocating the the use of public registries as the optimal solution for SOA, though

5) Communications, logistics, & work protocols issues - no discussion

6) Follow-ups from previous calls

  • A brief from the OASIS Interoperability conference and the ebXML effort (BobSmith)
    • Bob: a lot of what has transpired is relevant to our upcoming F2F workshop
      • Ontolog is probably the largest faction that is pushing for a semantic technology solution there
  • Engaging UN/CEFACT
    • Kurt: suggest we schedule a UN/CEFACT-ONTOLOG joint teleconference (hopefully on a Thursday) so that we can do a focused discussion
      • will need to follow-up with BillMcCarthy & Anders Tell
      • Rex: there will be a joint OASIS-ITU conference in Oct. 2006 (UN/CEFACT & ebXML is related somehow)
  • 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) - Bob agreed that's we will take this off the agenda.

7) Current Project Status Report

  • status of NHIN-RFI & Health-Ont project work - no new update
  • UBL liaison report - no new update
  • SICoP / ONTAC liaison report - no new update
  • NCOR relationship - pending - no new update
  • Planning team report - see item 8 below

8) Key Issues discussion:

  • Scheduled discussion events:
    • Thu 2006.06.08 - "Ontologizing the Ontolog Body of Knowledge" Discussion Session-2 - Moderators (organizers): EMichaelMaximilien & Conor Shankey
      • shifting this (tentatively) to 2006.07.15
    • Thu 2006.06.22 - Ontology Applications in Emergency Response Panel Discussion - Moderators (organizers): Rex Brooks & Bob Smith
      • may shift this to "after the 2006.07.23 face-to-face" -- tentatively 2006.08.10
    • Thu 2006.08.24 - SOA Panel Discussion (covering SOA-RM & SOA-RA) - Moderators (organizers): Duane Nickull & Rex Brooks
  • dates being shuffled - Peter will coordinate with Max, Conor, Natasha, Rex and Bob to try to fit everything in - Ref: working copy of planner.
    • ideally:
      • 2006.06.01 - Application Integration / ISO 18876
      • 2006.06.08 - no (special) event
      • Tagging Session2 - 2006.06.15
      • (update: no special event now - was:) Protege Ontology Development - 2006.06.22
        • (update: have to postpone this to another time ... conclusion from a phone conversation between Peter and Natasha. =ppy/2006.05.18-15:20)
      • Protege architecture & API - 2006.06.29
      • 2006.07.06 - no (special) event
      • From Controlled Vocabulary to Formal Ontology - 2006.07.13
      • Ontolog F2F workshop - 2006.07.23
    • Peter will try to tie all the dates down within this week

9) New project proposals - no discussion

10) Sponsorship and funding - no discussion

11) Other business - discussion deferred

  • 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

12) Next meeting date and adjourn

  • Our next meeting/callwill be next Thu 2006.05.25 - part of the call will be devoted to discussion of the recently established OntologTaxoThesaurus project
  • this call adjourned 11:56 am PDT

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minutes captured in real time on this wiki by Peter P. Yim / 2006.05.18-12:11pm PDT



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