ConferenceCall 2007 02 01

= [ontolog] Member Conference Call - Thu 2007-02-01 =


 * Topic: Ontolog operations planning and review meeting

Conference Call Details

 * Date: Tuesday, February 1, 2007
 * Start Time: 10:30am PST / 1:30am EST / 18:30 GMT/UTC
 * ref: World Clock
 * Expected Call Duration: 1.0 hours
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 * 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_02_01

Attendees

 * Attended:
 * PeterYim
 * MatthewWest
 * KenBaclawski
 * KurtConrad
 * PatrickDurusau
 * SteveRay
 * BobSmith


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


 * Regrets:

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


 * event planning
 * ontology-summit participation and wiki editor call

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 new Ontolog community members (since 2006.12.07):
 * 19 new members signed up
 * 8 people were invited in relations to the OntologySummit2007 initiative

4) Upcoming meeting & event schedule (near future)


 * Scheduled Ontolog Events:
 * Thursday, 8-February-2007 - Dr. Matthew West presented the 4th Event in the "Database And Ontology" Mini-Series - Mr. Martin O'Connor, an EHR Systems Researcher from Stanford Medical Informatics gave an invited talk on "Efficiently Querying Relational Databases using OWL and SWRL" ... Please refer to details at the session wiki page, at: ConferenceCall_2007_02_08 ... Audio archives of the session is now available!
 * A Feb-2007 OntologyMeasurementEvaluation mini-series event - awaiting details
 * Thursday, 8-March-2007 - Dr. Matthew West presented the 5th Event in the "Database And Ontology" Mini-Series - Dr. Adrian Walker, CTO of Reengineering LLC., was our invited speaker. He gave a talk on "Usability, Databases and Ontologies" ... Please refer to details at the session wiki page, at: ConferenceCall_2007_03_08 ... Audio archives of the session is now available!


 * Other upcoming events of interest - see: RelevantEventsOfInterest2007
 * In particular note:
 * February 6, 2007 - SICoP Special Conference: Building DRM 3.0 and Web 3.0 by Managing Context Across Multiple Documents and Organizations, at CSC, Falls Church, Virginia, USA - (Free) - see: http://colab.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?SICoPSpecialConference_2007_02_06
 * February 27, 2007, Tuesday - Collaborative Expedition Workshop #58, at NSF (Arlington, Virginia, USA; with remote attendance support) - "Exploring the Potentials and Realities of the Identity Management Landscape for Convergence and Service Oriented Architecture" - (Free) - see: http://colab.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ExpeditionWorkshop/Potentials_And_Realities_Of_Identity_Management_Landscape_For_Convergence_And_SOA_2007_02_27

5) Communications, logistics, & work protocols issues


 * Postmortems
 * generally good responses and feedback
 * BobSmith thanked KenBaclawski et al. for the contribution to the emergency response session
 * Peter thanked all the champions

6) Follow-ups from previous calls


 * doing something at the upcoming Semantic Technology Conference (May-2007, San Jose, CA, USA)
 * Kurt: think of doing face-to-face as a member get together by piggy-begging on other events, e.g. we've be doing this with the Protege conference, how about the Semantic Technology conference.
 * Kurt will champion this for the upcoming Semantic Technology conference (May 20~24, 2007, San Jose, CA, USA)
 * we probably won't do anything formal
 * maybe get people together for dinner, or for a drink
 * make sure we don't plan events that conflicts with that week

7) Current Project Status Report


 * Current Project Status Review:
 * OntologySummit2007 - see item 8a below
 * W3C is now officially a co-sponsor
 * stop press: TomGruber has just agreed to join us as a member of the organizing committee too!
 * the NIST Interoperability Week website is up now - see: http://www.mel.nist.gov/div826/msid/sima/interopweek/meetings.htm
 * Steve: there may be a small registration fee (to cover food, for example, as NIST is not allow to use taxpayer money for that) this year for the Interoperability Week (but hope this will not be a deterrant to people participating.)
 * 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
 * Bob & Kurt: it's alive (stealth, maybe)!


 * status of the ONION project startup
 * Bob will call CarlMattocks


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


 * Planning team report - see item 8c below

8) Key Issues discussion:


 * 8a. ontology-summit participation and wiki editor call
 * Peter: I like to thank DougHolmes, in particular, for what he told me at FOIS (Nov.2006) about what TomGruber said in the ISWC2006 keynote address, and his earlier remarks which in turn inspired what's making up the theme for the Ontology Summit this year.
 * wiki editor call:
 * Kurt & Ken offered help in the synthesis and editing


 * 8b. event planning
 * DatabaseAndOntology mini-series speakers yet to be scheduled in (or confirmed) - JohnSowa, BillAndersen, RalphHodgson / HolgerKnublauch, AndreasTolk
 * invited speakers (need schedule confirmation): AdamPease, DeborahMcGuinness, TomGruber ..
 * discussed: "Probabilistic Reasoning" or related topic - KenBaclawski, TerryJanssen, KathyLaskey, PauloCosta, ... (the invited talks or panel discussion on this could spin off from Steve's mini-series session on a similar topic but addressing ontology evaluation more specifically)
 * Steve OntologyMeasurementEvaluation mini-series:
 * planning a Feb2007 session for the mini-series with MichaelGruninger and ConradBock presenting, will lock in date within this week, and
 * then having KenBaclawski et al. be in the Mar2007 session on Probabilistic Reasoning in relation to evaluation ... which would likely, then, spin off to a more comprehensive session on the general subject of probabilistic reasoning, statistical inferences, ... etc. at a subsequent date.
 * Matthew also offered one (after April) on ISO15926
 * Ken is also working on Ontology Development Process
 * Steve: we (he and Ken) should talk, we (Steve's division at NIST) is doing similar work - take a look at our "Development Life Cycle and Tools for XML Content Models" paper


 * 8c. Community Planning
 * ref. earlier suggestion of making available community traffic statistics, check out:
 * the  clustrMaps - http://clustrmaps.com/counter/maps.php?url=http://ontolog.cim3.net
 * http://ontolog.cim3.net/webalizer/ [ auth: ontolog-member/ontology ]


 * 8d. a Reminder: we are committed to coordinate some collaboratively authored articles (for each of our projects) that could be published to wikipedia, as a means to bring the message to a broader audience.

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 2007.02.08, with the 4th DatabaseAndOntology mini-series Event - refer to details at: ConferenceCall_2007_02_08 ... talk to you then!
 * this call session adjourned 11:35 am PST

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