ConferenceCall 2006 01 26

= [ontolog] Member Conference Call - Thu 2006-01-26 =

Conference Call Details

 * Subject: [ontolog] member conference call Thu 2006-01-26


 * Date: Thursday, Jan. 26, 2006
 * Start Time: 10:30 AM PST / 1:30 PM EST / 18:30 UTC World Clock
 * Expected Call Duration: 1 ~ 1.5 hour
 * Dial-in Number: 1-641-696-6600 (Iowa) - note: new call-in number and access code
 * Participant Access Code: "68656#"


 * 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.
 * 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 [[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_01_26

Attendees

 * Attended:
 * KurtConrad
 * PeterYim (chair)
 * BobSmith
 * LeoObrst
 * EMichaelMaximilien
 * MonicaMartin
 * AndersTell


 * Expecting:
 * ...(add your name here)...''


 * Regrets:
 * SteveRay
 * PaulKoch
 * PatCassidy

Agenda Ideas

 * ...(add suggested items here)...

Agenda & Proceedings
1) Welcome & confirmation of agenda


 * PeterYim took the chair and welcomed everyone.

2) Appointment of secretary to take minutes


 * PeterYim volunteered

3) Roll-call of participants


 * see above

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 Feb. 2, 2006 - NicolaGuarino - "Making basic ontological choices: the DOLCE experience" - confirmed (LeoObrst)
 * Thu Mar. 2, 2006 - AsumanDogac - "Exploiting ebXML Registry Semantics in the eHealth Domain" - confirmed (MonicaMartin)
 * Thu Mar. 15, 2006 - UpperOntologySummit - Moderator: SteveRay - organizing committee formed and working on it (PeterYim)


 * Invited Speaker Schedule for the next 3~6 months - discussion postponed
 * Candidate -
 * SimonBuckinghamShum of the Compendium Institute ( ? ; ref. post from ScottLHolmes & PeterYim's response)
 * LarryReeker of NIST (suggested by SusanTurnbull)
 * John Sowa (suggested by BillMcCarthy)
 * other suggestions:
 * Monica: suggest inviting someone from the [regrep] group
 * Rex suggsted we should also invite UDDI and XMDR people, and possibly to have all three parties (regrep, uddi & xmdr) on a panel
 * Peter also suggested that we should invite Dieter Fensel to talk to us some time
 * Rex / Peter: XMDR - BruceBargmeyer or someone from his XMDR team
 * PeterYim / ElisaKendall: PatHayes, DeborahMcGuinness
 * To be brought up for discussion:
 * ChrisMenzel: BillAndersen
 * BrandNiemann / MarkMusen / PeterYim: Frank Hartel (NIH/NCI)
 * BrandNiemann / PeterYim: RoyRoebuck
 * DuaneNickull: suggesting candidates from Microsoft - Phil Berstein & Sergey Melnik - ref: http://ontolog.cim3.net/forum//ontolog-forum/2005-08/msg00027.html
 * DuaneNickull: EricMiller, Tim Berners-Lee of W3C
 * ChrisMenzel & PeterYim: ChrisMenzel some time early 2006 - on some of the work he is doing at Boeing)
 * PeterBrown & PeterYim (new!): PeterBrown some time early 2006 - on the EU project that PeterBrown has been working on in Austria: of building an "eGovernment Resources Network" - the issues relating to handling the exchange of reference information about eGovernment services across the continent - in many languages. This could serve as an interesting case study of what we are looking for from so-called "semantic web services".
 * BrandNiemann (new! input/2005.10.15): EricPeterson - who's been working on an OWL version of the FEA-DRM and who will lead the COSMO development subgroup in the newly formed SICoP / ONTAC-WG
 * MillsDavis (new! / 2005.11.26) - Conor Shankey (CEO, Visual Knowledge)
 * PeterYim (new! / 2005.11.28) - AdamCheyer, SRI, on the CALO project
 * PeterYim (new! Prompted by Doug Lenat's talk) - MikeGenesereth (director of the Stanford Logic Group)
 * BobSmith / PeterYim / EMichaelMaximilien (new! / 2006.01.09) - TomGruber
 * suggest we also try to invite candidate speakers to join us at weekly calls and other ontolog events so that they get more familiar with the community and vice versa
 * RexBrooks (new! / 2006.01.25) - JoeChiusano


 * Scheduled Discussions for the next 2 months - candidates: - discussion postponed
 * Rex: possibility of working with Duane on a follow-up to the last SOA discussion
 * Rex suggsted we should also invite UDDI and XMDR people, and possibly to have all three parties (regrep, uddi & xmdr) on a panel
 * Adam: need OWL & SWRL for OWL ontologies to really be useful
 * NicolasRouquette -- other topics lined up?
 * Other candidates:
 * Rex: propose "Emergency Response"
 * 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.
 * PeterYim: "moving from data standards to data-model- and semantic-model-driven eBusiness standards"
 * candidate panelists: BruceBarqmeyer, MarkCrawford, ElisaKendall, AdamPease, MikeDaconta, JimHendler, SteveRay (moderator?)
 * maybe a joint SICoP-Ontolog event, as part of another Collaborative Expedition Workshop?
 * more session for the "Ontolgy Applications and Implementations" series
 * (new! 2006.01.26) - tagging multimedia and other Ontolog content for podcast & semantic search


 * Upcoming Events of interest
 * February 9-10, 2006 - Fourth Semantic Interoperability for E-Government Conference - see: http://colab.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?FourthSemanticInteroperabilityforEGovernmentConference_2006_2_0910

5) Communications, logistics, & work protocols issues


 * (new!) Ontolog podcast - EMichaelMaximilien (Thanks, Max!)
 * see: http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?WikiHomePage#nidJMZ
 * see also: iTunes screen shot of our podcast (courtesy ShinyaYamada).
 * shall we advertise? --ppy: don't do this quite yet ... wait till we have someone to sponsor the bandwidth/traffic, it could become costly if we actually got lucky (and got popular!)
 * solicitation from Max - need volunteers to work on the items below:
 * pelase review the "description" and feedback on what is preferred - ref. that for 2004.09.08 and before, or 2004.09.24 and after
 * Bob & Peter feels that the version used in 2004.09.08 and before is better
 * copyright statements need to be customized
 * ownership need to be customized
 * keyword lists need to be customized
 * this dovetails into what NicolasRouquette have been trying to get the community to do -- tagging the community content
 * all: let's put this in as a candidate technical discussion session

6) Follow-ups from previous calls


 * Reveiw of the Thu 2005.12.15 "Ontology Applications and Implementations" session
 * what was good
 * had a flurry of submissions after closing, therefore, we have a few on queue now
 * had 17 people in the audience - reasonable crowd
 * what needs improvement
 * how would we do it differently next time
 * BobSmith: maybe have presentaters structure it to tell us:
 * what is the application?
 * what tools were used?
 * what does the ontology look like, and how was it applied?
 * how long did it take to implement, how big a scope, ...
 * how successful was it?
 * ref. topquadrant, michael denny, mark musen's Applied Ontologies magazine for matrices
 * other input
 * Kurt: would not be hard to put together another session; probably only need a leadtime of 2~3 weeks


 * Review of the 2005.01.12 & 01.19 LeoObrst "What is an Ontology?" sessions - discussion postponed
 * what was good
 * what needs improvement
 * BobSmith: Suggestion about the 30 minute Introductions Phase of Presentations with LARGE attendees: Eliminate it... (Yes, I know it is sometimes helpful, but we should be able to get this info in better ways....)
 * how would we do it differently next time
 * other input


 * Engaging UN/CEFACT:
 * Anders: ready to find a way forward
 * Kurt: the status - our input to UN/CEFACT, and interaction with Duane & Mary Kay
 * Anders: Modelers Reference Initiative (MRI) - a community (just started) now going with a bi-weekly (generally alternating Wednesdays) conference call
 * would like to invite Ontolog to present
 * can reciprocate by directing people to Ontolog
 * Kurt: let's track when a new version (where some of our comments were folded in) comes out that we should further comment on
 * Peter / Anders: let's try to have a phone-bridged joint sub-session betwwen the March UpperOntologySummit and the UN/CEFACT meeting (they both happen on the same week.) - [Anders and Peter to work out the details off-line]
 * best possibility is late mroning EST / early morning PST Wed 3/15/06 maybe 1 hour to share between UN/CEFACT and the UO folks
 * (updated/--ppy) on further discussion, phone conferencing does not seem to be the most appropriate medium after all; we'll focus on doing the following (as suggested by Anders)
 * Anders: look forward to possibility of someone from Ontolog presenting at the March 2006 UN/CEFACT meeting in Vancouver
 * candiate speaker from Ontolog: Kurt, Bob or Duane to be our ambassador
 * (update/--Kurt) Kurt will not be available to travel that week, he'll try to ping Bob or Duane to see if they can do it.


 * Presenting at the OASIS Symposium 2006 (9-12 May 2006, San Francisco, CA) - Proposal submission deadline: 20 December 2005 - discussion postponed
 * Duane and Rex are submitting, requesting that they cover our (Ontolog) work as a sidebar
 * anyone from here going to present?


 * 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

7) Current Project Status Report - discussion postponed


 * Status CCT-Representation and UBL-Ontology project work
 * Requirements issues (ref: http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?UseCases)
 * Formalization issues
 * [CCT-Rep] status report


 * Status of Protege-KIF project work


 * status of NHIN-RFI & Health-Ont project work


 * UBL liaison report


 * SICoP liaison report


 * NCOR relationship - pending


 * Planning team report


 * UpperOntologySummit - organizing committee report

8) project work session / discussion - Beginning of Year Planning for Ontolog -- to be postponed to the next membership conference call


 * SWOT Analysis - see BobSmith's chart: http://ontolog.cim3.net/file/work/Ontolog-planning/Ontolog_Plans--BobSmith_Q1-2006_1a.doc
 * strengths
 * weaknesses
 * opportunities
 * threats


 * initiatives for this year


 * action plans

9) New project proposals - no discussion

10) Sponsorship and funding - no discussion

11) Other business - no discussion

12) Next meeting date and adjourn


 * next call will be on Thu 2006-02-22 starting at 10:30 am PST - NicolaGuarino will be speaking on "Making basic ontological choices: the DOLCE experience." - see: ConferenceCall_2006_02_02 ... see you there. RSVP!
 * the 4th Semantic Technology for eGoverment conference will be in session the following Thursday - shall we skip our regular call that week?
 * this call adjourned 11:51 am PST

-- minutes captured in real time on this wiki by PeterYim / 2006.01.26-11:54 am PST