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[ontolog] Member Conference Call - Thu 2006-05-25

Conference Call Details

  • Subject: [ontolog] member conference call Thu 2006-05-25
  • Date: Thursday, May 25, 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:
    • 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_25

Attendees

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

  • Bob Smith: discussions on the OntologTaxoThesaurus project to take it forward
  • Peter P. Yim / EMichaelMaximilien: need to finalize on the "Ontologizing Ontolog Discussion Session-2" date
  • ...(add suggested items here)...

Agenda & Proceedings

1) Welcome & confirmation of agenda

  • Bob Smith took the chair and welcomed everyone.

2) Appointment of secretary to take minutes

3) Roll-call of participants

4) Upcoming meeting & event schedule (near future)

  • Peter P. Yim / EMichaelMaximilien: need to finalize on the "Ontologizing Ontolog Discussion Session-2" date
    • EMichaelMaximilien: will move the date to Jul 6, 2006
    • Max will provide the title and abstract by Wed 5/31/06 ... that will also provide Max & Conor the grounding to invite people
  • Instead, on June 15, 2006, the OntologTaxoThesaurus team will put together a project work session ... soliciting domain experts to participate
  • Scheduled Ontolog Events:
  • Upcoming Events of interest

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

6) Follow-ups from previous calls

  • 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)
  • 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

7) Current Project Status Report

  • Status CctRepresentation and UblOntology project work
  • status of NHIN-RFI & Health-Ont project work
  • UBL liaison report
  • SICoP / ONTAC liaison report
  • NCOR relationship - pending
  • Planning team report

8) Key Issues discussion:

  • OntologWorkshop_July_2006 organizing committee report & discussion
    • Ontolog Face to Face Workshop see http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?OntologWorkshop_July_2006
      • Key Dates and Expectations, Contingencies (May 29th deadline extensions?)
      • Recruiting efforts
      • Program Committee-Social Committee Logistics and Wiki Support
      • Etc.
      • Denise will probably be able to join us at the July 23 face-to-face
        • Bob will arrange to send her an 'invitation'
      • Steve will consider having people from NIST come join us at the F2F (Rex suggests KC Morris, if possible)
      • Peter: will try to invite SRI people over, since they are going through an exercise rather similar to ours (which culminates in the 7/23 F2F)
      • had some discussion on cadidate participants to the 2F
        • may need to extend the 6/29 CFP
      • need to recruit a champion to work with Kurt and Rex for scheduling some social activities and otehr meetings
        • candidates: Stanford SMI, KSL; SRI-AI-Lab, EPRI, IBM-Almaden Research Center, PARC; company with Doug Engelbart;

9) New project proposals

10) Sponsorship and funding

11) Other business

12) Next meeting date and adjourn

  • Our next meeting/call will be next Thu 2006.06.01 - with invited speaker Matthew West - see: ConferenceCall_2006_06_01
  • this call adjourned 11:43 am PDT

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minutes captured in real time on this wiki by Peter P. Yim / 2006.05.25-11:44am PDT



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