UpperOntologySummit/OrganizingCommitteeMeeting 2006 03 25

= UpperOntologySummit - Organizing Committee Conference Call 2006-03-25 =

Call Details

 * Date: Saturday, Mar. 25, 2006
 * Start Time: 7:00 AM PST / 10:00 AM EST / 15:00 UTC (World Clock)
 * Expected Call Duration: 1.5 hour
 * Dial-in Number: 1-641-696-6600 (Iowa)
 * Participant Access Code: "68656#"

Attendees

 * Attended:
 * SteveRay (Chair)
 * PeterYim
 * LeoObrst
 * DagobertSoergel
 * PatCassidy


 * Expecting:


 * Regrets:

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

 * UOS postmortem
 * What next?
 * a joint presence at FOIS-2006? - International Conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems
 * November 9-11, 2006 - Baltimore, Maryland, USA
 * see: http://www.formalontology.org/fois-2006/FOIS-2006%20Call%20for%20Papers.htm/
 * a joint presence at OIS2006 - 1st International Workshop on Ontologizing Industrial Standards
 * 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/
 * ...(please add suggested items here)...

Agenda & Proceedings
1) Welcome & confirmation of agenda


 * SteveRay took the chair and welcomed everyone.

2) Appointment of secretary to take minutes


 * PeterYim volunteered to take minutes

3) Roll-call of participants - see above

4) Urgent matters to be attended to

5) Communications, logistics, & work protocols issues


 * recording and transcripts
 * segment-2 of the main UOS meeting (2006.03.15 afternoon) already posted - see: http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?UpperOntologySummitMeeting_2006_03_15#nidLXO
 * segment-1 could have been corrupted due to some technical issues with the new equipment (now still try to salvage)
 * the taping of the other two meetings (2006.03.14 & 2006.03.15 morning) probably not complete
 * phone line also got dropped when someone kicked the polycomm power adapter off the wall


 * Lessons learned
 * someone should be monitoring the dial-in call
 * we should provide a cell-phone number for people to call, in case anything happened with the dial-in


 * hold-off on doing transcript until we have all the recordings in (we'll decide then, if it is worth the effort and cost.)


 * we discussed some of the logistics related issues
 * venue
 * registration
 * refreshments

6) Follow-up from previous meetings

7) Status review and ongoing discussions


 * UOS postmortem
 * what went well
 * Pat / Peter: the whole series of meetings went real well (which took us, like 80% of the way even before we met in person)
 * the mailing list discussion prior to the meeting was really help
 * lots of credit should go to Doug
 * the collaborative authoring, while tedious, was worth it -- ownership, a deliverable, a stake in the ground, of historical significance, ...
 * what needs improvement
 * some of the logistics issues described earlier
 * how would we do it differently next time
 * following-up:
 * Steve: ongoing discussion in a collaborative work environment
 * e-mail discussion can be improved
 * discipline, metadata, topic-specific-threading
 * augmented by a wiki page


 * press coverage of the event
 * So far, the only article explicitly mentioning upper ontologies is this NIST Techbeat article. Our public affairs folks are sending out a more focused packet to the media targetted on the Upper Ontology Summit this coming week.
 * There are some other articles covering Interoperability Week, but none of them picked up the ontology aspect.


 * what next?
 * update to version 1.02 of UpperOntologySummit/OrganizingCommitteeMeeting_2006_03_25/UosJointCommunique to include added endorsements (~3/31/06)
 * do we really want a next iteration of the Joint Communique?
 * Pat: maybe one shot (to make it flow better)
 * Steve / Leo / Peter: let's leave the historical artifact (for the UOS event it is associated with) aside ... whatever addition goes into a different document
 * Steve: we should be aware that there is always the view of some people that this is a group of academics that only talks
 * Dagobert: suggestion - the first page of the white paper could be your "improved version" (Pat: good idea!)
 * institutionalizing the continuing effort
 * in what organizational form?
 * moving this into Ontolog and to engage the larger ontolog community
 * follow-ups relating to funding
 * NSF joint activities?
 * follow-ups relating to standradization
 * NIST, ISO, OASIS, IEEE ... collaboration?
 * getting to work on the intended interrelated UO deliverable
 * SICoP working relationship


 * Technical
 * Ontolog community can frame some of the issues, and bring the discussion to a point that could move it toward standardization
 * IKRIS: aligning PSL with Cyc - reach out to JerryHobbs and whoever else is on the content
 * IKRIS: aligning PSL with Cyc - reach out to JerryHobbs and whoever else is on the content


 * Convener role of Ontolog
 * NCOR can define the directions, definitions, glossaries, maintain the quality, ...
 * NIST: methodology, quality control, testing, ...
 * the IEEE, ISO, ... will have to be developing the standards
 * Ontolog can be where people can plug into
 * Steve: possibility that Ontolog can host the registry, with NCOR doing the certification of the content
 * Steve: possibility that Ontolog can host the registry, with NCOR doing the certification of the content


 * other discussions
 * Pat: Doug mentioned something like: it will be one man-year to express all of DOLCE in Cyc
 * putting up a glossary
 * Leo: NCOR is also planning on something like that
 * Steve: maybe we'll put "upper ontology" into wikipedia
 * Pat: I'd like to start the page on "semantic interoperability" into wikipedia, there is no such page yet

8) New Issues discussed:


 * Should we have a joint presence at OIS2006? - OIS2006: 1st International Workshop on Ontologizing Industrial Standards
 * 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/
 * also (conflicting calendar):
 * FOIS-2006 (Nov. 9~11, 2006 Baltimore, MD)
 * International Semantic Web Conferece (Athens, Georgia) - same week
 * Leo: a Rules conference around that time too.

9) Action Items


 * Leo will start a conversation on the [uos-convene] list to start a project and focus effort on "the whitepaper."

10) Next meeting date and adjournment


 * Next meeting?
 * move this into Ontolog - therefore, this conversation will continue at the next Ontolog call Thu 2006.03.30 10:30am PST / 1:30pm EST


 * call adjourned 8:23 pm PST / 11:23 pm EST

-- minutes captured in real time on this wiki by PeterYim / 2006.03.25-8:26am PST