ConferenceCall 2006 03 30

= [ontolog] Member Conference Call - Thu 2006-03-30 =

Conference Call Details

 * Subject: [ontolog] member conference call Thu 2006-03-30


 * Date: Thursday, Mar. 30, 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)
 * Participant Access Code: "686564#"


 * 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_03_30

Attendees

 * Attended:
 * PeterYim
 * SteveRay
 * LeoObrst
 * KurtConrad
 * PatCassidy
 * MonicaMartin
 * PatHeinig
 * RexBrooks


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


 * Regrets:
 * DavidCMartin
 * DagobertSoergel
 * MatthewWest
 * NaijunZhou
 * PeterBrown
 * EMichaelMaximilien

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

 * Plan the next 3 months' speaker and technical discussion sessions
 * follow-ups from the UOS
 * ...(add suggested items here)...

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

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 2006.04.13 - invited speaker: DeniseBedford (confirmed)
 * Thu 2006.04.20 - "Ontologizing the Ontolog Content - Session-I" Technical Discussion session (confirmed)
 * Thu 2006.05.11 - DavidFurrucci of IBM Research (Watson) on UIMA - confirmed (EMichaelMaximilien)
 * others: look under item 8 below


 * Invited Speaker Schedule for the next 3~6 months:
 * 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 was to lead the COSMO development subgroup in the newly formed SICoP / ONTAC-WG. The new lead is DagobertSoergel from University of Maryland; we should consider inviting him too.
 * 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! / 2006.01.23) - 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 of Booz Allen Hamilton
 * PeterYim (new! 2006.02.14) - JackPark of SRI on topic maps, openiris, tagging contents, ...
 * DuaneNickull (new! 2006.02.28) - Robert Tolksdorf of Freie Universität Berlin (Germany) or someone from their group
 * ref. their "Semantic Technologies in Collaborative Applications (STICA 06)" - http://www.inf.fu-berlin.de/inst/ag-nbi/conf/STICA06/
 * LeoObrst (new! 2006.03.23) - RobinMcEntire from Glaxo Smith Klein for his application expire (he was at the NCOR inauguration)
 * LeoObrst (new! 2006.03.23) - BobMcGregor from Siderean (previously ISI)
 * LeoObrst (new! 2006.03.23) - others from ISI like EdHovey ...
 * LeoObrst (new! 2006.03.23) - RichardFikes from Stanford KSL
 * LeoObrst (new! 2006.03.23) - IanHorrocks from University of Manchester
 * LeoObrst (new! 2006.03.23) - PeterPatelSchneider from Bell Labs


 * near future - Roy, Denise, Conor, Jack & DavidFurrucci (on UIMA) - Kurt and Peter will follow-up with these speakers off-line
 * continue discussion under item 8 below


 * EMichaelMaximilien will ping MikeGenesereth and some potential UIMA speakers on behalf of the community


 * Scheduled Discussions for the next 3 months - * = extended discussion under item 8 below:
 * EMichaelMaximilien / NicolasRouquette / DeniseBedford / PeterYim - tagging the Ontolog (knowledge repository) content*
 * RexBrooks / BobSmith - ontology application in emergency response*
 * Other candidates:
 * 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?
 * 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

5) Communications, logistics, & work protocols issues

6) Follow-ups from previous calls


 * Ontolog at the UN/CEFACT Mar.2006 Vancouver, Canada meeting - BillMcCarthy
 * Bill was not at the call, we'll look to his report at the next call


 * Ontolog at the UpperOntologySummit Mar.2006 Gaithersburg, MD, US meetings - PeterYim
 * project homepage at: http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?UpperOntologySummit
 * UOS meeting proceedings at: http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?UpperOntologySummitMeeting_2006_03_15
 * UOS Joint communique at: http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?UpperOntologySummit/UosJointCommunique
 * for those who were there (or helped prepare the UOS), your endorsement is solicited, if not already included there


 * 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 (unless we have time)

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 - see item 8 below


 * UpperOntologySummit - organizing committee report
 * more audio has been made available by NIST/Steve - Peter: they'll be posted soon
 * UOS-organizing commmittee concludes that we should freeze the UOS Joint Communique; any refinement can go into the whitepaper that's going to be worked on
 * will use the Ontolog environment to pursue any follow-ups to UOS
 * the [uos-convene] list, wiki etc. will conitnue to be available for the purpose
 * possible follow-up with NSF
 * Steve: need to be careful from the government ethics standpoint. Leo concurs. This applies to NIST and MITRE.
 * NIST and Ontolog will keep each other posted

8) Key Issues discussion:


 * Planning our events for the next quarter
 * worksheet updated - see: http://ontolog.cim3.net/file/work/Ontolog-planning/Ontolog_Event_Plan_2006_20060309.doc ... working copy
 * confirmed invitation of DavidFerrucci of IBM to talk on UIMA 2006.05.11 - thanks to EMichaelMaximilien (who helped us extend the invitation)
 * also confirmed these dates now: 2006.04.13 - DeniseBedford's talk; 2006.04.20 - "Tagging-session-1"
 * Denise will drive this through the [ontolog-forum]
 * we managed to lock in a few dates already, still need to confirm others [attn: Max & Conor - please advise]
 * Need from Max: confirmation on "Tagging-session-2" date and Mike Genesereth invitation/date.


 * from our 2006.02.16 & prior discussion, as well as discussion at this call:
 * "Tagging Ontolog Content" Discussion Sessions - a.k.a. " A pilot exercise toward building an ontology application"
 * session 1: what do we want to do? (i.e. to do with the content we are tagging)
 * moderators: Denise, Max & Nicolas
 * date: April 20, 2006 (confirmed -- Denise / 2006.03.23)
 * candidate panelists: to be discussed ... possibly through a call via the forum
 * session 2: what are the technologies available? ... and what are our constraints and choices of technology to get the job done?
 * moderators: Max & Conor
 * date: end April or early May
 * candidate panelists:


 * PatHeinig suggested considering having the OSERA work featured in "tagging session-2" also (Peter: concur)
 * PatHeinig suggested considering having the OSERA work featured in "tagging session-2" also (Peter: concur)


 * (b) RexBrooks / BobSmith - ontology application in emergency response technical discussion session
 * June 22, 2006 - Rex and Bob will co-moderate


 * (c) Ontolog face-to-face workshop at the Ninth International Protege Conference that is scheduled to be held July 23-26, 2006 in Stanford, California? -- ref: http://ontolog.cim3.net/forum//ontolog-forum/2006-02/msg00028.html
 * definitely want to do this - consider to have Bob & Kurt lead this
 * Theme: along the lines of "Formal and Informal"

9) New project proposals

10) Sponsorship and funding


 * Steve: consider SBIR (most us-based UO custodians would probably qualify)
 * Peter: try getting a team (subset of UOS-conveners) to start thinking about a joint proposal
 * and then invite someone from NSF over, to join us at a conference call to bounce the idea off him/her.

11) Other business


 * follow-up actions from the UpperOntologySummit


 * Ontolog support letter to MarkMusen / Protege project - http://ontolog.cim3.net/forum//ontolog-forum/2006-03/msg00032.html
 * KurtConrad will have a draft ready real soon


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


 * project work session / discussion - "Beginning" of Year Planning for Ontolog -- to be postponed to the next membership conference call - discussion postponed (unless we have time)
 * SWOT Analysis
 * strengths
 * weaknesses
 * opportunities
 * threats


 * initiatives for this year


 * action plans
 * Leo, Pat, Steve & Peter to try get some interaction on the [uos-convene] list
 * try getting the UOS-conveners together next week (Apr. 6) to explore the possibilities of drawing up a joint proposal

12) Next meeting date and adjourn


 * Our next meeting/callwill be next Thu 2006.04.06, a regular active membership conference call
 * this call adjourned 11:40 am PST

-- minutes captured in real time on this wiki by PeterYim / 2006.03.30-11:45am PST