ConferenceCall 2006 06 22

= [ontolog] Member Conference Call - Thu 2006-06-22 =

Conference Call Details

 * Subject: [ontolog] member conference call Thu 2006-06-22


 * Date: Thursday, June 22, 2006
 * Start Time: 10:30 AM PDT / 1:30 PM EDT / 17:30 UTC World Clock
 * Expected Call Duration: 1 hour
 * Dial-in Number: 1-641-696-6600 (Iowa)
 * Participant Access Code: "686564#"


 * Agenda Comments:
 * 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_06_22

Attendees

 * Attended:
 * PeterYim
 * PatrickDurusau
 * EMichaelMaximilien


 * Expecting:
 * RexBrooks
 * LisaColvin
 * DeniseBedford
 * ...(add your name here)...


 * Regrets:
 * KurtConrad

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

 * upcoming scheduled event planning & discussion
 * re-open discussion about OIS2006
 * ...(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)


 * Scheduled Ontolog Events:
 * Continuation of our "Ontologizing the Ontolog Body of Knowledge" series of talks & discussions - http://ontolog.cim3.net/forum//ontolog-forum/2006-05/msg00019.html
 * Thu 2006.06.29 - TimRedmond - "Protege Architecture and API" (a session for applications developers)
 * Thu 2006.07.06 - "Ontologizing the Ontolog Body of Knowledge" Discussion Session-2: The Solution Landscape - Moderators (organizers): EMichaelMaximilien & ConorShankey
 * Session title: "Multifaceted approach to ontologizing the ONTOLOG content rooted in pragmatism, tools, services, and standards, and social collaboration"
 * see: ConferenceCall_2006_06_15
 * Thu 2006.07.13 - PatCassidy - "From Controlled Vocabulary to Standard Ontologies" (from the perspective of a formal ontologist)
 * Thu 2006.07.23 - Ontolog F2F Meeting and Workshop colocated with the 9th Protege International Conference (Stanford, CA) - Organizers: BobSmith & KurtConrad
 * we'll hopefully be arranging more functions during this community F2F gathering and the almost weeklong Conference
 * organizers now changed to BobSmith, KurtConrad & RexBrooks
 * Thu 2006.08.10 - SOA Panel Discussion (covering SOA-RM & SOA-RA) - Moderators (organizers): DuaneNickull & RexBrooks
 * Thu 2006.08.31 - Ontology Applications in Emergency Response Panel Discussion - Moderators (organizers): RexBrooks & BobSmith


 * Other upcoming events of interest

5) Communications, logistics, & work protocols issues - no discussion

6) Follow-ups from previous calls


 * postmortem on last week's BobSmith & DeniseBedford moderated - "OntologTaxoThesaurus Project Work Session - Categorizing Concepts" - ConferenceCall_2006_06_15
 * vote of thanks to Bob & Denise for a job well done!
 * what was good about it
 * what can be improved
 * what would we do differently the next time
 * discussion


 * Engaging UN/CEFACT
 * Kurt: suggest we schedule a UN/CEFACT-ONTOLOG joint teleconference (hopefully on a Thursday) so that we can do a focused discussion
 * will need to follow-up with BillMcCarthy & AndersTell
 * Rex: there will be a joint OASIS-ITU conference in Oct. 2006 (UN/CEFACT & ebXML is related somehow)


 * 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
 * KurtConrad (2006.06.22): suggest that maybe we can track down the organizers and liaise with them to see if there is any collaboration potentials -- volunteer to take on this task solicited!
 * given LeoObrst & BobSmith's recent reference to DERI work (see: http://ontolog.cim3.net/forum//ontolog-forum/2006-06/msg00011.html) and OIS2006 - let's re-open discussion on possibilities

7) Current Project Status Report


 * Status CctRepresentation and UblOntology project work


 * Status of ProtegeKIF project work


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


 * status of OntologTaxoThesaurus project work
 * preparing for next week's work session
 * Denise has put together some slides for next week, Bob will circulate to the team


 * UBL liaison report
 * SICoP liaison report
 * great workshop (still going) with the Geospatial community. See: http://colab.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ExpeditionWorkshop/OpenCollaboration_NetworkingGeospatialInformationTechnology_2006_06_20
 * ONTAC liaison report
 * NCOR relationship - pending
 * Planning team report

8) Key Issues discussion:


 * OntologWorkshop_July_2006 organizing committee report & discussion - (discussion from previous sessions below)
 * Ontolog Face to Face Workshop see http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?OntologWorkshop_July_2006
 * Key Dates and Expectations, Contingencies (May 29th deadline extensions?)
 * Recruiting efforts
 * Program Committee-Social Committee Logistics and Wiki Support
 * Etc.
 * Denise will probably be able to join us at the July 23 face-to-face
 * Bob will arrange to send her an 'invitation'
 * Steve will consider having people from NIST come join us at the F2F (Rex suggests KC Morris, if possible)
 * Peter: will try to invite SRI people over, since they are going through an exercise rather similar to ours (which culminates in the 7/23 F2F)
 * had some discussion on cadidate participants to the 2F
 * may need to extend the 6/29 CFP
 * need to recruit a champion to work with Kurt and Rex for scheduling some social activities and other meetings - RexBrooks (Kurt will join them too) will try to get some sugestion from MarkMusen
 * candidates additional meetings: Stanford SMI, KSL; SRI-AI-Lab, EPRI, IBM-Almaden Research Center, PARC; company with DougEngelbart;
 * JackPark: SRI receptive to hosting a meeting at the AI Center; and see the value to arranging some presentations by Ontolog members and their work (e.g. intro to Ontolog, Denise, SOA, ...) to the AI Center people during the meeting.
 * members of the organizing committee will continue to pursue this with Jack.


 * Discussion:
 * People we might engage:
 * MarkMusen (who actually says he is planning to spend some time at the 7/23 workshop)
 * MichaelUschold (who will be keynote speaker for the Protege Conference)
 * someone who can represent the 'formal ontology' position - ... (candidates: BarrySmith, PatCassidy, AdamPease, ChrisWelty, PatHayes, RichardFikes, ..., someone to talk about the IKRIS project, ...)
 * MartinHepp? (--thoughts from Leo-Bob-Peter)
 * YaserBishr (who made a very good and relevant presentation along the lines of our theme at http://colab.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ExpeditionWorkshop/OpenCollaboration_NetworkingGeospatialInformationTechnology_2006_06_20#nid355M (--suggested by Peter/2006.06.21)
 * YaserBishr (who made a very good and relevant presentation along the lines of our theme at http://colab.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ExpeditionWorkshop/OpenCollaboration_NetworkingGeospatialInformationTechnology_2006_06_20#nid355M (--suggested by Peter/2006.06.21)

9) New project proposals

10) Sponsorship and funding

11) Other business


 * In view of the fact that only 3 of us were here. we only briefly discussed some of the people we might invite as presenters to Max's 2006.07.06 "Ontologizing Ontolog" Discussion Session-2
 * Max will be making the invitations this weekend
 * Peter / Max: we'll look into inviting TimRedmond or Tania Tudorache of the Protege team to Max's 2006.07.06 panel

12) Next meeting date and adjourn


 * Our next meeting/call will be next Thu 2006.06.29 - with invited speaker TimRedmond from Stanford, presenting: "Developing Applications in Protégé" - ref: ConferenceCall_2006_06_29
 * this call adjourned 11:00 am PDT

-- minutes captured in real time on this wiki by PeterYim / 2006.06.22-11:03am PDT