[ontolog] Member Conference Call - Thu 2006-05-25     (1)

Conference Call Details     (1A)

• Subject: [ontolog] member conference call Thu 2006-05-25     (1A1)

• Date: Thursday, May 25, 2006     (1A2)
• Start Time: 10:30 AM PDT / 1:30 PM EDT / 17:30 UTC World Clock     (1A3)
• Expected Call Duration: 1 ~ 1.5 hour     (1A4)
• Dial-in Number: 1-641-696-6600 (Iowa)     (1A5)
• Participant Access Code: "686564#"     (1A6)

• Agenda Comments:     (1A7)
  • 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     (1A7A)
  • VNC session (if needed) will be started 5 minutes before the call at: http://vnc2.cim3.net:5800/     (1A7B)
    • view-only password: "ontolog"     (1A7B1)
    • view-and-control pw: to be supplied during session as needed     (1A7B2)
  • Wiki page for this call (i.e. this page) is at: http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2006_05_25     (1A7C)

Attendees     (1B)

• Attended:     (1B1)
  • BobSmith (session chair)     (1B1A)
  • RexBrooks     (1B1B)
  • Peter P. Yim     (1B1C)
  • DeniseBedford     (1B1D)
  • SteveRay     (1B1E)
  • KurtConrad     (1B1F)
  • PatHeinig     (1B1G)

• Expecting:     (1B2)
  • LisaColvin     (1B2A)
  • ...(add your name here)...     (1B2B)

• Regrets:     (1B3)
  • SteveIhnen     (1B3A)
  • MatthewWest     (1B3B)

Agenda Ideas (candidate items to be adopted into the agenda for discussion)     (1C)

• BobSmith: discussions on the OntologTaxoThesaurus project to take it forward     (1C1)
• Peter P. Yim / EMichaelMaximilien: need to finalize on the "Ontologizing Ontolog Discussion Session-2" date     (1C2)
• ...(add suggested items here)...     (1C3)

Agenda & Proceedings     (1E)

• BobSmith took the chair and welcomed everyone.     (1E2)

• Peter P. Yim volunteered     (1E4)

• see above     (1E6)

• Peter P. Yim / EMichaelMaximilien: need to finalize on the "Ontologizing Ontolog Discussion Session-2" date     (1E8)
  • EMichaelMaximilien: will move the date to Jul 6, 2006     (1E8A)
  • Max will provide the title and abstract by Wed 5/31/06 ... that will also provide Max & Conor the grounding to invite people     (1E8B)

• Instead, on June 15, 2006, the OntologTaxoThesaurus team will put together a project work session ... soliciting domain experts to participate     (1E9)

• Scheduled Ontolog Events:     (1E10)
  • Continuation of our "Ontologizing the Ontolog Body of Knowledge" series of talks & discussions - http://ontolog.cim3.net/forum//ontolog-forum/2006-05/msg00019.html     (1E10A)
  • Thu Jun. 1, 2006 - MatthewWest - 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 & ConferenceCall_2006_06_01     (1E10B)
  • Thu 2006.06.15 - "Ontologizing the Ontolog Body of Knowledge" Discussion Session-2 - Moderators (organizers): EMichaelMaximilien & ConorShankey     (1E10C)
  • Thu 2006.06.29 - TimRedmond - "Protege Architecture and API" (a session for applications developers)     (1E10D)
  • Thu 2006.07.13 - PatCassidy - "From Controlled Vocabulary to Standard Ontologies" (from the perspective of a formal ontologist)     (1E10E)
  • Thu 2006.07.23 - Ontolog F2F Meeting and Workshop colocated with the 9th Protege International Conference (Stanford, CA) - Organizers: BobSmith & KurtConrad     (1E10F)
    • we'll hopefully be arranging more functions during this community F2F gathering and the almost weeklong Conference     (1E10F1)
    • organizers now changed to BobSmith, KurtConrad & RexBrooks     (1E10F2)
  • Thu 2006.08.10 - SOA Panel Discussion (covering SOA-RM & SOA-RA) - Moderators (organizers): DuaneNickull & RexBrooks     (1E10G)
  • Thu 2006.08.31 - Ontology Applications in Emergency Response Panel Discussion - Moderators (organizers): RexBrooks & BobSmith     (1E10H)

• Upcoming Events of interest     (1E11)

• Engaging UN/CEFACT     (1E14)
  • Kurt: suggest we schedule a UN/CEFACT-ONTOLOG joint teleconference (hopefully on a Thursday) so that we can do a focused discussion     (1E14A)
    • will need to follow-up with BillMcCarthy & AndersTell     (1E14A1)
    • Rex: there will be a joint OASIS-ITU conference in Oct. 2006 (UN/CEFACT & ebXML is related somehow)     (1E14A2)

• Should we have a joint presence at OIS2006? - OIS2006: 1st International Workshop on Ontologizing Industrial Standards     (1E15)
  • 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     (1E15A)
  • November 6-9, 2006 - Tucson, Arizona, USA - colocated with the 25th International Conference on Conceptual Modeling (ER2006)     (1E15B)
  • see: http://ontolog.cim3.net/forum//ontolog-forum/2006-03/msg00020.html & http://events.deri.at/ois2006/     (1E15C)
  • EMichaelMaximilien is in contact with some of these people ... he can help relay questions if we have any     (1E15D)
  • conflict with 5th International Semantic Web Conference (same week, but in Athens, Georgia)     (1E15E)
  • abstract deadline is May 1, 2006 (so we still have some time to get organized if we want to really do something)     (1E15F)
  • this is definitely relevant to us ... let's think things over and come back for more discussion at the next call     (1E15G)

• Status CctRepresentation and UblOntology project work     (1E17)

• Status of ProtegeKIF project work     (1E18)

• status of NHIN-RFI & Health-Ont project work     (1E19)

• status of OntologTaxoThesaurus project work - see discussion under item 8     (1E20)

• UBL liaison report     (1E21)
• SICoP / ONTAC liaison report     (1E22)
• NCOR relationship - pending     (1E23)
• Planning team report     (1E24)

• OntologWorkshop_July_2006 organizing committee report & discussion     (1E26)
  • Ontolog Face to Face Workshop see http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?OntologWorkshop_July_2006     (1E26A)
    • Key Dates and Expectations, Contingencies (May 29th deadline extensions?)     (1E26A1)
    • Recruiting efforts     (1E26A2)
    • Program Committee-Social Committee Logistics and Wiki Support     (1E26A3)
    • Etc.     (1E26A4)
    • Denise will probably be able to join us at the July 23 face-to-face     (1E26A5)
      • Bob will arrange to send her an 'invitation'     (1E26A5A)
    • Steve will consider having people from NIST come join us at the F2F (Rex suggests KC Morris, if possible)     (1E26A6)
    • 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)     (1E26A7)
    • had some discussion on cadidate participants to the 2F     (1E26A8)
      • may need to extend the 6/29 CFP     (1E26A8A)
    • need to recruit a champion to work with Kurt and Rex for scheduling some social activities and otehr meetings     (1E26A9)
      • candidates: Stanford SMI, KSL; SRI-AI-Lab, EPRI, IBM-Almaden Research Center, PARC; company with DougEngelbart;     (1E26A9A)

• OntologTaxoThesaurus project discussion     (1E27)
  • BobSmith: OntologTaxoThesaurus Progress and Challenges     (1E27A)
    • Denise's earlier questions about Scope, Methods, Audience;     (1E27A1)
    • Progress report: Inventory, Sketch 1 of current "Wiki Taxonomy", Concept Abstraction, "Deliverables"     (1E27A2)
      • see:     (1E27A2A)
    • Thesaurus Features needed for target audience(s)?     (1E27A3)
    • also DeniseBedford deliverables - see: http://ontolog.cim3.net/file/work/OntologizingOntolog/TaxoThesaurus/     (1E27A4)
      • inventoried about 65,000 items -- http://ontolog.cim3.net/file/work/OntologizingOntolog/TaxoThesaurus/ontolog-cwe-inventory-map_dbedford_20060514a.xls     (1E27A4A)
      • raw concepts, with concept extraction tools) --     (1E27A4B)
        • http://ontolog.cim3.net/file/work/OntologizingOntolog/TaxoThesaurus/Ontology_Concepts_Document_Subset--DeniseBedford_20060525.txt &     (1E27A4B1)
        • http://ontolog.cim3.net/file/work/OntologizingOntolog/TaxoThesaurus/Ontolog_PowerPoint_Concept_Subset--DeniseBedford_20060525.txt     (1E27A4B2)
        • have yet to do this for the html files     (1E27A4B3)
      • will then categorize     (1E27A4C)
      • and identify topics with domain experts     (1E27A4D)
      • can then send them through a clustering tool     (1E27A4E)
    • what shall/can we do with this?     (1E27A5)
      • (a) gets us better searchable content, and     (1E27A5A)
      • (b) strucure the content in a topical manner     (1E27A5B)
    • Round-robin discussion of "What would you like to have...??"     (1E27A6)
    • Next Conf Call?     (1E27A7)
    • Etc. ... Other comments:     (1E27A8)
    • Rex: I think this captures a solid footing in a ground-up approach that gives us a sound viewpoint for developing a top down structure     (1E27A9)

• Our next meeting/call will be next Thu 2006.06.01 - with invited speaker MatthewWest - see: ConferenceCall_2006_06_01     (1E32)
• this call adjourned 11:43 am PDT     (1E33)