ConferenceCall 2007 08 02

= [ontolog] Member Conference Call - Thu 2007-08-02 =


 * This will be a regular operations planning and review meeting for active members of the Ontolog community. ... The meeting is open to all who are interested, RSVP (offline to peter.yim@cim3.com) appreciated.

Conference Call Details

 * Date: Thursday, Aug. 2, 2007 
 * Start Time: 10:30am PDT / 1:30pm EDT / 6:30pm BST / 17:30 GMT/UTC
 * ref: World Clock
 * Expected Call Duration: ~1.0 hours
 * Dial-in Number:
 * Direct call from from Skype: +990008275823120
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 * RSVP to [mailto:peter.yim@cim3.com peter.yim@cim3.com] appreciated.


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 * view-only password: "ontolog"


 * 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_08_02

Attendees

 * Attended:
 * PeterYim
 * KenBaclawski
 * Marco Newmann (Gallery Systems)
 * JonathanCheyer


 * Expecting:

... (please insert your name above or RSVP by e-mailing  offline)


 * Regrets:

Agenda Ideas
.. (please insert your ideas below)


 * From KenBaclawski: let's take some time to talk about Tiki: Purple wiki tagging. Fine-grained tagging at the level of individual items (purple numbers) on a wiki page with migration to MediaWiki and SemanticMediaWiki.

Agenda & Proceedings
1) Welcome & confirmation of agenda


 * KenBaclawski took the chair and welcomed everyone.

2) Appointment of secretary to take minutes


 * PeterYim volunteered

3) Roll-call of participants


 * see above


 * Welcome to new Ontolog community members

4) Upcoming meeting & event schedule (near future)


 * Scheduled Ontolog Events:
 * Thursday, 23-August-2007 - Mr. Jason R. Baron, Director of Litigation for NARA (the US National Archives and Records Administration) was our invited speaker, who gave a talk on: "Lawyers, Language, and Legal Risk: Emerging Issues in E-Discovery" ... Please refer to details at the session wiki page at: ConferenceCall_2007_08_23 ... Audio archives of the session is now available!
 * Thursday, 6-Sep-2007 - Mr. Adam Pease, CEO of Articulate Software will be our invited speaker and gave us an update on SUMO in his talk entitled: "The Suggested Upper Merged Ontology at Age 7: Progress and Promise". Please refer to details on the session wiki page at: ConferenceCall_2007_09_06 ... Audio archives of the session is now available!


 * see other scheduled items under the Ontolog News and Announcements.
 * Other upcoming events of interest - see: RelevantEventsOfInterest2007


 * on deck are MarkMusen, DeborahMcGuinness, JohnBateman, TimRedmond-TaniaTudorache-PeterYim (on CODS), MikeBergman (on UMBEL), AsumanDogac,  ...  etc.
 * more talk in the DatabaseAndOntology series: HolgerKnublauch & RalphHodgson (TopQuadrant) in Jan.2008 ...
 * KenBaclawski: also on Uncertainty & Decision Support, possibility to grow that into a mini-series

5) Communications, logistics, & work protocols issues

6) Follow-ups from previous calls


 * The NASA-Ontolog collaboration is becoming a reality. Stayed tuned for 'official' announcements which should be coming out in the next 2~3 weeks.
 * ref. discussion at last week's session(s) - http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2007_07_26#nid131R

7) Current Project Status Report


 * Current Project Status Review:


 * Status CctRepresentation and UblOntology project work.


 * Status of ProtegeKIF project work.


 * status of NHIN-RFI & Health-Ont project work. No progress was reported.


 * status of OntologTaxoThesaurus project work
 * next workshop rescheduled to Thu 2007.09.27 (was originally planned for 2007.07.26)


 * 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:


 * Discussion on Tiki: Purple wiki tagging. Fine-grained tagging at the level of individual items (purple numbers) on a wiki page with migration to MediaWiki and SemanticMediaWiki.
 * two students of KenBaclawski is developing this work
 * The ontolog-dev mailing list will be repurposed for the project
 * A new Ontolog project may be proposed
 * Schedule a phone conference 8/17 at 10am Eastern/7am Pacific

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 2007.08.09, same time. Details will be at ConferenceCall_2007_08_09 closer to the time ... talk to you then!
 * Again, in view of the fact that a lot of our active members are on their summer vacation, we may opt to cancel this call (1-hour prior to the scheduled start time) if there isn't enough suggested agenda items to warrant having the call.


 * this call session adjourned 11:55 am PDT

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