ConferenceCall 2007 03 15

= [ontolog] Member Conference Call - Thu 2007-03-15 =


 * Topic: Ontolog operations planning and review meeting

Conference Call Details

 * Date: Thursday, March 15, 2007 
 * Start Time: 10:30am PDT / 1:30pm EDT / 17:30 GMT/UTC
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Attendees

 * Attended:
 * PeterYim
 * SteveRay
 * LisaColvin
 * FrankOlken
 * KenBaclawski
 * Expecting:
 * ... to register for participation, please add your name (plus your affiliation, if you aren't already a member of the community) above, or e-mail  so that we can reserve enough resources to support everyone's participation. ...


 * Regrets:
 * DougHolmes
 * PatrickDurusau
 * BobSmith
 * RexBrooks

Agenda Ideas
(please insert items you would like to see covered here)


 * standing items: project reports and event planning
 * PeterYim: discussion on the process to help converge on our OntologySummit2007 framework

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


 * Welcome new Ontolog community members
 * we now have ~340 subscribers on the [ontolog-forum] list - these will include the general membership, comprising active members, members and observers
 * a total of ~450 subscribers on the [ontolog-invitation] list - this is our event announcement list (our membership would be a subset of those who are subscribed here.)

4) Upcoming meeting & event schedule (near future)


 * Scheduled Ontolog Events:
 * Thursday, 29-March-2007 - Dr. Steven Ray (NIST) presented the 5th Event in the Joint NIST-Ontolog-NCOR "Ontology Evaluation &amp; Measurement" Mini-Series - this was a panel session on the subject of "Probabilistic Reasoning and Ontology Evaluation" - Panelists: Professor Kenneth Baclawski, Professor Kathryn Blackmond Laskey, Dr. Paulo Costa &amp; Dr. Terry Janssen ... Please refer to details at the session wiki page at: ConferenceCall_2007_03_29 ... Audio archives of the session is now available!    - awaiting some more details
 * Thursday, 12-April-2007 - Dr. Matthew West presented the 6th Event in the "Database And Ontology" Mini-Series - Mr. Edward Barkmeyer from NIST was our invited speaker and gave a talk on "Ontologies as the Next Generation Information Models" ... Please refer to details at the session wiki page, at: ConferenceCall_2007_04_12 ... Audio archives of the session is now available!   - awaiting details
 * Thursday, 12-April-2007 - Dr. Matthew West presented the 6th Event in the "Database And Ontology" Mini-Series - Mr. Edward Barkmeyer from NIST was our invited speaker and gave a talk on "Ontologies as the Next Generation Information Models" ... Please refer to details at the session wiki page, at: ConferenceCall_2007_04_12 ... Audio archives of the session is now available!


 * Other upcoming events of interest - see: RelevantEventsOfInterest2007


 * Ongoing, of couse is:

5) Communications, logistics, & work protocols issues

6) Follow-ups from previous calls

7) Current Project Status Report - item postponed


 * Current Project Status Review:
 * OntologySummit2007
 * DatabaseAndOntology mini-series
 * OntologyMeasurementEvaluation mini-series


 * Status CctRepresentation and UblOntology project work


 * Status of ProtegeKIF project work


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


 * status of OntologTaxoThesaurus project work


 * 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:


 * 8a. ontology-summit: discussion on the process to help converge on our OntologySummit2007 framework. Ref:
 * [1] constituencies - http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?OntologySummit2007_DefinitionsOfOntology#nidV2L
 * [2] process - http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?OntologySummit2007_Process/Draft2#nidU7S
 * [3] survey (draft) - http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?OntologySummit2007_Process/Draft2#nidUFO
 * Discussion:
 * Steve: believe we are on the right track, knows what needs to be done, and just needs to do it
 * Steve: confirmed that MichaelGruninger will be working with LeoObrst on the "Framework" and co-chair the Apr-23 am session
 * once a draft comes out from Leo and Michael (which may be on the 'formal' side) we can have people chime in and build on that
 * Lisa: a couple of ideas involving Venn Diagrams etc., for people who are not from the community. Will post this as a suggestion
 * Peter: proposing a yin-yang perspective (the dualities or dichotomies) of the various aspects of 'ontologies and its appplications' we are seeing today
 * FrankOlken: confirms that he will be working with OlivierBodenreider on the "Communique" and co-chair the Apr-24 am session
 * KenBaclawski: can start contributing to some synthesis work (e.g. on the subject of "best practices") ... will map that back to the theme of "Ontology, Taxonomy, Folksonomy: Understanding the Distinctions"
 * Peter: help in this respect also needed after the survey (which we will release today and allow people 7~10 days to get back to us on) responses are collected. Of course, we need synthesis on slected topics of the ongoing discourse
 * Ken will review and pick the topic(s), make a post, and get wiki page(s) started on them. (Peter will work with Ken, offline, to start those pages.)


 * 8b. event planning
 * 29-Mar-2007 "Probabilistic Reasoning and Ontology Evaluation" event - SteveRay will be out-of-the-country next week, KenBaclawski will help coordinate. Need final list of panelists, title (hopefully also abstract) of alll the briefing, and biodata of panelists that is still missing (only Terry, as of now.)
 * 23 & 24-Apr-2007 - OntologySummit2007 face-to-face events - Steve will make a post to [ontolog-invitation] when the NIST registration site is ready
 * 12-Apr-2007, Steve will help remind Ed Barkmeyer that we are still looking to receive his cleaned up talk abstract.
 * invited (need schedule confirmation): BillAndersen
 * (discussed before and) about to invite: AdamPease (update on one of the most popular talks; KurtConrad), DeborahMcGuinness (on Inference Web; ElisaKendall), Mark Musen (on NCBO and its new "bioportal"; prompted by BarrySmith)


 * 8c. Community Planning - discussion postponed
 * picking up from where we left off at: http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2007_02_01#nidT7O
 * discussing, in particular, about sponsorships, funding and sustainability of the community (something we postponed from the above session)
 * discussion on collaboratively authored work
 * Notes on Discussion at this session:

9) New project proposals

10) Sponsorship and funding

11) Other business

12) Next meeting date and adjourn


 * Our next meeting/call will be the Thu 2007.03.22, ... talk to you then!
 * this call session adjourned 11:19 am PDT

-- minutes captured in real time on this wiki by PeterYim / 2007.03.15-11:38am PDT 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