NhinRfi/ConferenceCall 2005 05 31

= [health-ont] Co-conveners' call - Tue 2005-05-31 =

Call Details
Date: 	Tuesday, May 31, 2005 Start Time: 	10:15 a.m. PDT / 1:15pm EDT Expected Duration: 30 minutes Dial-in Number: 	1-702-851-3330 (Las Vegas, Nevada) Participant Access Code:	686564#

Attendees

 * Attended:
 * BobSmith
 * BrandNiemann
 * PeterYim
 * MarkMusen


 * Expecting:

Agenda & Proceedings

 * Sync up on where we stand with the joint Ontolog-[[SICoP] NHIN-RFI response initiative]


 * Discuss Brand's "Call for Semantic Interoperability Architecture (SIA) Pilot" - ref: http://colab.cim3.net/forum/sicop-forum/2005-05/msg00001.html


 * Make preparation for another [health-ont] team conference call


 * session to be captured on the wiki at: http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?NhinRfi/ConferenceCall_2005_05_31 (this page)

Information Technology, Office of the Director, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality - interested in SICoP/Ontology pilot! on UDEF, SUMO, and DOLCE. They seem to have forgotten or overlooked Adam and Peter's presentation last December to Jon Bozak's group. the GSA Office of Intergovernmental Solutions (shares office with Susan). He wants to work with us. Management of Change Conference last week and plans for seminars in the fall. (also Dr. Brailer's Office) heard our pilot presentation and likes it. Ontology for ISO 11179 Metamodel (slide 12). You might want to review this! slots on June 13th 1-3 p.m.
 * Brand's input 2005.05.30
 * 1. An email from Dr. Michael Fitzmaurice, Senior Science Advisor for
 * 2. An email from UDEF Forum (http://www.opengroup.org/projects/udef/
 * 3. Marc Wine's new position - Coordinating Intergovernmental Health IT in
 * 4. An email from Esther Dyson on Health Information Technology at the
 * 5. Vish in Dr. Brailer's office wants to meet with me and Richard Singerman
 * 6. Kevin Keck (http://xmdr.org) presentation on Protege to Create OWL
 * 7. Pilot presentations for June 13th and June 21st? I have 4-6 15-minute


 * Discussion
 * Brand:
 * suggest Peter to send comment to Mike Daconta ref UDEF, iso-11179 & upper ontologies
 * Brand and Marc will visit with the following people and report back
 * Vish at Dr. Briler's office
 * Dr. Fitzmaurice
 * will also talk to Esther Dyson who is working with the Markel Foundation
 * finalizing the 6/13 DRM Public Forum agenda soon - need input if this group wants to present at that workshop
 * Peter will get back to Brand in a couple of days (subject to scheduling of an NSF meeting around the same time)
 * Brand: Oracle is demonstrating their RDF backend on that workshop
 * Brand: according to Vish, NHIN-RFI report will be out in a week or so
 * Content Analyst only handles text, also, can only handle small text files
 * Brand, therefore went ahead only with FAST
 * plan to develop an ontology from that result similar to FEARMO
 * Bob:
 * how about doing a tutorial?
 * Mark: how about resources
 * Brand: I'd like to turn this over to Marc, Dr. Fitzmaurice or Vish who may have the resources to make things happen
 * Ontolog could make suggestions ... or suggest a conference call with Marc.
 * Peter:
 * a next meeting for the health-ont team -- who can we done?
 * Brand: maybe invite either Marc, Fitzmaurice or Vish to talk
 * Brand: how about 6/20, 22 or 23 (maybe Marc can do it sooner, I'll talk to him tomorrow)


 * call adjourned 10:50 am PDT / 1:50pm EDT