ConferenceCall 2007 07 26

= [ontolog] Member Conference Call - Thu 2007-07-26 =


 * This will be a regular operations planning and review meeting for active members of the Ontolog community. ... The meeting is open to all who are interested, RSVP (offline to peter.yim@cim3.com) appreciated.


 * Note that the originally planned OntologTaxoThesaurus Project workshop for this date will now be postponed to September 2007 (possibly 2007.09.27 ... to be confirmed) due to schedule conflicts from several of the key project team members.

Conference Call Details

 * Date: Thursday, July 26, 2007 
 * Start Time: 10:30am PDT / 1:30pm EDT / 6:30pm BST / 17:30 GMT/UTC
 * ref: World Clock
 * Expected Call Duration: ~1.0 hours
 * Dial-in Number:
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 * Shared-screen support (VNC session), if applicable, will be started 5 minutes before the call at: http://vnc2.cim3.net:5800/
 * view-only password: "ontolog"


 * This session, like all other Ontolog events, is open to the public. Information relating to this session is shared on this wiki page: http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2007_07_26

Attendees

 * Attended:
 * KurtConrad (Chair)
 * PeterYim *
 * LeoObrst
 * SteveRay
 * JeanneHolm *


 * Expecting:
 * AndrewSchain (has a conflict, but will try to join)
 * ... (please insert your name above or RSVP by e-mailing  offline)


 * Regrets:
 * DeniseBedford
 * SusanTurnbull
 * KenBaclawski

Agenda Ideas

 * planning out NASA-Ontolog collaboration

... (please insert your ideas below)



Agenda & Proceedings
1) Welcome & confirmation of agenda


 * KurtConrad took the chair and welcomed everyone.

2) Appointment of secretary to take minutes


 * PeterYim volunteered

3) Roll-call of participants


 * see above


 * Welcome to new Ontolog community members

4) Upcoming meeting & event schedule (near future)


 * Scheduled Ontolog Events:
 * this might be postponed (possibly to November 2007) ... details to be advised.
 * Thursday, 18-Oct-2007 - Dr. Matthew West and Dr. Leo Obrst presented the 11th session in the "Database And Ontology" series - Dr. Alan Wu from Oracle's Database Semantic Technologies Group was our invited speaker. This is the second of the two-part presentation from Oracle and was focused more on Oracle's OWL Inferencing implementation. Dr. Wu's talk was entitled: "A Scalable RDBMS-Based Inference Engine for RDFS/OWL." Please refer to details at the session wiki page, at: ConferenceCall_2007_10_18 ... Audio archives of the session is now available!
 * we will be collaborating with the SDForum - Semantic Web SIG / AjChen in helping produce and host the audio archive to their event scheduled for next Monday evening 2007.07.30, in Palo Alto, California.
 * See details at: http://ontolog.cim3.net/forum/ontolog-forum/2007-07/msg00026.html
 * PPY: although, not wanting to be a party to the marketing hype, we will not be using the "web 3.0" label.
 * PPY: although, not wanting to be a party to the marketing hype, we will not be using the "web 3.0" label.


 * Other upcoming events of interest - see: RelevantEventsOfInterest2007


 * on deck are MarkMusen, AdamPease, DeborahMcGuinness, JohnBateman, TimRedmond-TaniaTudorache-PeterYim (on CODS), MikeBergman (on UMBEL), AsumanDogac,  ...  etc.
 * more talk in the DatabaseAndOntology series: BillAndersen, TopQuadrant, ...
 * KenBaclawski: also on Uncertainty & Decision Support, possibility to grow that into a mini-series
 * PPY: now working out details of a NASA-Ontolog mini-series (JeanneHolm, AndrewSchain & PeterYim)

5) Communications, logistics, & work protocols issues

6) Follow-ups from previous calls


 * a postmortem on CEW#63 - ref:
 * Ontolog presented two panels at the Collaborative Expedition Workshop #63 (2007.07.17 &amp; 18, at NSF, Arlington, VA, USA):
 * 2007.07.17 - with this first panel, we used OntologySummit2007 as a case, to share lessons learned in organizing delivering a collaborative virtual community initiative like it, and how that knowledge can be captured and preserved.
 * preparation work archived at: OntologySummit2007_FollowUp/CewPanel
 * preparation work archived at: OntologySummit2007_FollowUp/CewPanel

7) Current Project Status Report


 * Current Project Status Review:


 * Status CctRepresentation and UblOntology project work.
 * AsumanDogac and AndersTell, independently, seem to be developing interesting work. We'll try to invite them over to talk about that when they are in a position to do so.


 * Status of ProtegeKIF project work.


 * status of NHIN-RFI & Health-Ont project work. No progress was reported.


 * status of OntologTaxoThesaurus project work
 * workshop (originally planned for today) now rescheduled to Sep.2007. (possibly 2007.09.27 ... to be confirmed).


 * status of OntologySummit2007_FollowUp work
 * ref. above regarding the CEW#63 Panels


 * status of OntologyDrivenApplications compilation work.


 * status of the ONION project startup.


 * UBL liaison report
 * SICoP / ONTAC liaison report
 * NCOR liaison report


 * Planning team report - see item 8c below

8) Key Issues discussion:


 * Planning out a NASA-Ontolog collaboration
 * PeterYim gave everyone a brief overview on the developing initiative during the regular call (let's call that "session-1"), as JeanneHolm and AndrewSchain was unable to make it to that call.
 * This has been brewing since JeanneHolm and PeterYim met in Washington DC back on 2007.03.01 at the Government Printing Office (where Nancy Faget hosted a "Knowledge Cafe" event, which Peter was able to attend because he was in town for SusanTurnbull's CEW#58.) Since then, Peter, Jeanne and AndrewSchain has been exchanging ideas on what and how this could be put together that would allow us to get exposed to some of the good (ontology / semantics / knowledge management) work that is ongoing at NASA, and in a way that involves the whole community and drives us to something actionable.


 * JeanneHolm and PeterYim finally managed to confer at ~5:00pm PDT (let's call this "session-2"). The following recapitulates on that discussion and earlier exchanges, forming the strawman for the entire initiative.
 * Yes, we do have a project - an upcoming NASA-Ontolog collaboration
 * it will be a virtual mini-series of virtual seminars, panel dicussions, online discourse etc.
 * it will span about 6 months.
 * the Theme of the initiative will be: "Ontology in Knowledge Management and Decision Support"
 * besides Jeanne, Andy and Peter, we will invite a few more people to join us to form an organizing committee to put this whole thing together
 * the announcement and online discourse will conceivably be cross-posted to [ontolog-forum]  and [kmgov] (or child lists off them, depending on participation and traffic.)
 * we'll consider offering all the virtual seminar and panel discussion events both in the real world setting as augmented conference calls, as well as in a virtual world setting (at "Second Life")
 * (as Jeanne was just about to start her leave), we'll pick up the conversation after she returns, in about 2~3 weeks.
 * in the mean time, we'll ponder over candidates we might invite to the organizing team, compelling topics and people we might invite as speakers or panelists.
 * Peter will get a wiki page started, as the home page for this project/initiative - see: OKMDS (previously: OntologyKMandDecisionSupport)

9) New project proposals.

10) Sponsorship and funding.

11) Other business.


 * FYI ... LeoObrst is now trying to get support to bid for having ISWC'09 to be held in Washington DC, USA
 * noting that: ISWC'07 will be at Busan, Korea, and ISWC'08 will be at Karlsruhe, Germany

12) Next meeting date and adjourn


 * Our next meeting/call will be the Thu 2007.08.02, same time. Details will be at ConferenceCall_2007_08_02 closer to the time ... talk to you then!


 * this call session adjourned:
 * session-1: 10:30~11:31 am PDT
 * session-2: 4:48~5:08 pm PDT

-- session-1 minutes captured in real time on this wiki by PeterYim / 2007.07.26-11:32 pm PDT session-2 recap posted PeterYim/2007.07.30 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