OOR/ConferenceCall 2008 06 20

= OpenOntologyRepository: OOR Team Conference Call - Fri 2008-06-20 =

OpenOntologyRepository team conference call, Fri 2008.06.20, 1.0~1.5 Hr. call starting 12:00pm EDT / 9:00am PDT / 16:00 UTC

Conference Call Details:

 * Date: Friday, June 20, 2008 
 * Start Time: 12:00pm EDT / 9:00am PDT / 16:00 UTC
 * ref: World Clock
 * Expected Call Duration: 1.0~1.5 hours
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Attendees

 * Attended:
 * MikeDean (chair)
 * PeterYim
 * FrankAlvidrez
 * K_Goodier
 * RaviSharma
 * KenBaclawski
 * MichelleRaymond


 * Expecting:


 * ... if you are coming to the meeting, please add your name above (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. ...
 * ... if you are coming to the meeting, please add your name above (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:
 * BruceBargmeyer
 * MarkMusen
 * LeoObrst
 * EvanWallace
 * ToddSchneider
 * JohnGraybeal
 * PatHayes
 * FrankOlken

Agenda Ideas

 * Peter: establishing our short-term action plans
 * Peter / Leo / Mike: a possible "Prototype Review: Synergies and Gaps" session - Jun-27 or Jul-11?
 * Funding approaches

(please insert your suggested agenda items here)

Agenda & Proceedings
1. Meeting called to order:


 * MikeDean takes the chair and welcomed everyone
 * PeterYim volunteers to take minutes of the meeting


 * review and adopt agenda

2. Roll Call:


 * see above

3. Status Review and Discussion:


 * Urgent issues:


 * Outstanding Issue review/update: (from last call)
 * populate - OOR/ActiveMemberContribution


 * Logistics and Communications


 * Discussions:


 * Further to the discussion at our May-9 call and subsequent announcement, breakout subgroups will report back on their discussions/recommendations in the following four major areas:


 * Short-term Planning - MikeDean with LeoObrst & PeterYim
 * Mike: no update for now
 * for those who want to contribute code, please start by creating an account on SemWebCentral, that way, Mike can add them to the project.
 * K: suggest linking the OOR project repository at SemWebCentral as a "semantic web tool"


 * Resource & Funding - KenBaclawski
 * Ken: submitted an NIH proposal earlier, and got a pretty good score - '154 (out of 500) with 1~150 being 'must fund.'
 * Mike / Peter: reminding everyone of Mike's earlier suggestion (in his summit roadmap presentation) that we all try to submit proposals making reference to 'OOR' to build up a momentum
 * Mike: when we have more of these, we can have a webpage listing them
 * More (possible) funding sources:
 * Frank: DoDAF would be a possible funding source
 * Michelle: DoJ and DHS, NIEM in particular, too
 * K: check out HSIN (Homeland Security Information Network)
 * Ken: OOR being infrastructure ... proposals for government grants would probably need to be made in relation to projects that meet specific grant criteria (and not proposed as 'OOR' per se)
 * Frank cited an interesting example from an earlier Protege conference (2005), and would find the presentation to share with everyone - Frank will post to [oor-forum]
 * Ken / Michelle / etc. - just "interoperability" is already 'saleable' ... outside of the academic research arena
 * Ken will share the language he used as a reference to the rest of the team
 * Ken: consider levels of participation - stratification and what that entails - will talk about this at the next call


 * Use Cases & Requirements - K_Goodier with RaviSharma, PeterYim, ToddSchneider & FrankAlvidrez
 * K: OpenOntologyRepository_UseCases page updated
 * K: encourage members of the subgroup to get their accounts at SemWebCentral
 * K / Peter: code related stuff to go to the SemWebCentral project repository, other write-ups to stay on this wiki
 * Peter: there is a possibility we can move our OOR-wiki content to a "Purple Semantic MediaWiki" site fairly soon (as Ontolog migrates there!)


 * Organization & Process - PeterYim with LeoObrst & MikeDean
 * locking in Jun-27 to do our "Prototype Review: Synergies and Gaps" - Fri 2008.06.27 - 2.0~2.5 Hr starting 9:00am PDT / 12:00 noon EDT / 16:00 UTC
 * Peter will announce this over the weekend
 * We'll use Mike's OOR-protype as a spring board to solicit input from key code contributors on "Synergies and Gaps"
 * parties we (Peter / Leo / Mike) have in mind, currently, include:
 * DAML
 * BioPortal (include OMV as they are already in collaboration)
 * NeOn / OMV
 * CODS
 * XMDR
 * OMG
 * CL (working group)
 * BBN
 * CIM3
 * anyone else we have left out? ... please suggest
 * looks like we might miss the OMG people on 6/27 (as they are meeting in Ottawa around that date.)
 * Peter: remind everyone to use [oor-forum] list, even if its a subgroup conversation
 * that way, we can (a) keep everyone on the same page, and (b) have the content archived.
 * consider prefixing the subject line in case of a subgroup conversation, so people not really interested can just scan or skip over those messages

4. New Issues:

5. Any Other Business:

6. Action items:


 * our short-term plan:
 * tasks
 * deliverables
 * Timeline / Milestones:

7. Schedule Next Meeting & Adjourn:


 * Next Meeting:
 * next OOR-team meeting Fri 2008.07.11 - 1.0~1.5 Hr. starting 12:00noon EDT / 9:00am PDT - see: OOR/ConferenceCall_2008_07_11 (closer to the time)
 * Note: earlier resolution: all team members please (if possible) block out Fridays 1.5 Hr starting 12:00pm EDT / 9:00am PDT / 16:00 GMT/UTC


 * Call adjourned at: 10:10 am PDT

-- notes taken by: PeterYim / 2008.06.20-10:16am PDT All participants, please review and edit to enhance accuracy and granularity of the documented proceedings.

Resources

 * homepage - OpenOntologyRepository - http://OpenOntologyRepository.org
 * proceedings of our previous meetings
 * OOR/ConferenceCall_2008_01_23
 * OOR/ConferenceCall_2008_02_13
 * OOR/ConferenceCall_2008_03_05
 * OOR/ConferenceCall_2008_03_14
 * OOR/ConferenceCall_2008_03_21
 * OOR/ConferenceCall_2008_04_04
 * OOR/ConferenceCall_2008_04_18
 * OOR/ConferenceCall_2008_05_09
 * OOR/ConferenceCall_2008_05_23
 * OOR/ConferenceCall_2008_06_06
 * OOR Charter - To promote the global use and sharing of ontologies by: 1. establishing a hosted registry-repository; 2. enabling and facilitating open, federated, collaborative ontology repositories; 3. establishing best practices for expressing interoperable ontology and taxonomy work in registry-repositories.
 * "Ontology Repository" Definition - "An ontology repository is a facility where ontologies and related information artifacts can be stored, retrieved and managed"
 * OpenOntologyRepository_Scope - documentation related to this OOR initiative's mission, charter, objectives, goals, terms of reference, definitions, scope, ... etc.
 * OpenOntologyRepository_Requirement - documentation related to the requirements of the "open ontology repository" we are planning to implement through this OOR initiative.
 * OpenOntologyRepository_UseCases
 * OpenOntologyRepository_Approach - documentation related to this OOR initiative's approach, and the process we will be using.
 * OpenOntologyRepository_Architecture - documentation related to the architecture of the "open ontology repository" we are planning to implement through this OOR initiative.
 * OpenOntologyRepository_Plan
 * OOR/ActiveMemberContribution
 * [ oor-forum ] discussion archives - http://ontolog.cim3.net/forum/oor-forum/
 * the four joint OOR-OntologySummit2008 Panel Discussions:
 * 2008_02_28 - Thursday: Joint OOR-OntologySummit2008 Panel Discussion: "Ontology Registry and Repository Technology &amp; Infrastructure Landscape" - Co-chairs: LeoObrst &amp; FrankOlken; Panelists: BruceBargmeyer, MikeDean, MarkMusen, FarrukhNajmi &amp; PeterYim - ConferenceCall_2008_02_28
 * 2008_03_27 - Thursday: Joint OOR-OntologySummit2008 Panel Discussion: "An Open Ontology Repository: Rationale, Expectations &amp; Requirements - Session-1" - Chair: LeoObrst &amp; FabianNeuhaus; Panelists: WilliamBug, EvanWallace, JohnLMcCarthy, KenBaclawski, PeterBenson &amp; RexBrooks - ConferenceCall_2008_03_27
 * 2008_04_03 - Thursday: Joint OOR-OntologySummit2008 Panel Discussion: "An Open Ontology Repository: Rationale, Expectations &amp; Requirements - Session-2" - Chair: LeoObrst &amp; FabianNeuhaus; Panelists: DougLenat, DekeSmith, MarciaZeng, DeniseBedford, PatHayes, MalaMehrotra &amp; RobRaskin - ConferenceCall_2008_04_03
 * 2008_04_10 - Thursday: Joint OOR-OntologySummit2008 Panel Discussion: "Developing an Ontology of Ontologies for OOR" - Co-chairs: BarrySmith &amp; MichaelGruninger; Panelists: MichaelGruninger, PeterHaase, NatashaNoy &amp; ElisaKendall - ConferenceCall_2008_04_10
 * OntologySummit2008 homepage
 * OntologySummit2008_Communique
 * OntologySummit2008/FaceToFaceAgenda
 * [ ontology-summit ] discussion archives - http://ontolog.cim3.net/forum/ontology-summit/
 * Our key content pages:
 * OpenOntologyRepository_Scope
 * OpenOntologyRepository_Organization
 * OpenOntologyRepository_Process
 * OpenOntologyRepository_Policy
 * OpenOntologyRepository_IPR
 * OpenOntologyRepository_Requirement
 * OpenOntologyRepository_UseCases
 * OpenOntologyRepository_Architecture
 * OpenOntologyRepository_Approach
 * OpenOntologyRepository_Roadmap
 * OpenOntologyRepository_Plan
 * OOR software development project site and repository at SemWebCentral - http://oor.projects.semwebcentral.org