ConferenceCall 2006 09 21

= [ontolog] Member Conference Call - Thu 2006-09-21 =

Conference Call Details

 * Subject: [ontolog] member conference call Thu 2006-09-21


 * Date: Thursday, July 21, 2006
 * Start Time: 10:30 AM PDT / 1:30 PM EDT / 6:30 PM BST / 17:30 UTC World Clock
 * Expected Call Duration: 1 ~ 1.5 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
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 * Wiki page for this call (i.e. this page) is at: http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2006_09_21

Attendees

 * Attended:
 * KurtConrad
 * BobSmith
 * JeffSchiffel
 * DuaneNickull
 * PatHeinig
 * NabonitaGuha
 * DougHolmes
 * PeterYim
 * TatianaMalyuta


 * Expecting:
 * JimDisbrow
 * ...(add your name here)...


 * Regrets:
 * KenLaskey
 * MatthewWest
 * SukumarDwarkanath
 * AtillaElci
 * SteveRay

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

 * Updates on plans for the OntologyMeasurementEvaluation mini-series [SteveRay et al.]
 * Updates on plans for the DatabaseAndOntology mini-series [MatthewWest et al.]
 * ...(add suggested items here)...

Agenda & Proceedings
1) Welcome & confirmation of agenda


 * KurtConrad took the chair and welcomed everyone.

2) Appointment of secretary to take minutes


 * PeterYim volunteered

3) Roll-call of participants


 * see above


 * Welcome new Ontolog members - new [ontolog-forum] members (since 2006.09.07):
 * ArdPrasad (DRTC, ISI - Bangalore, India)
 * AudreyHo (Amgen - Thousand Oaks, CA, USA)
 * JeanPierreMainguy (Amgen - Thousand Oaks, CA, USA)
 * XuanZha (NIST, Gaithersburg, MD, USA)

4) Upcoming meeting & event schedule (near future)


 * Scheduled Ontolog Events:
 * Thu 2006.10.19 - Opening session for the OntologyMeasurementEvaluation mini-series - see discussion under item 8 below
 * Oct'06 - Opening session for the DatabaseAndOntology mini-series - see discussion under item 8 below
 * Thu 2006.11.30 - "Ontology Applications & Implementations Panel Discussion - Take-II" - Co-Moderator: DuaneNickull & KurtConrad - see: ConferenceCall_2006_11_30/Prep
 * Thu 2006.12.14 - invited speaker: ChrisChute - (PeterYim / MarkMusen)


 * Other upcoming events of interest - see: RelevantEventsOfInterest2006

5) Communications, logistics, & work protocols issues


 * engaging UN/CEFACT
 * suggest to stay put, for the time being,
 * Duane will be at their Vienna meeting Apr.2007, will ping Mary Kay Blantz, Gunther Stuhec and Christian Huemer then on our behalf.
 * any UML related outcome of the upcoming DatabaseAndOntology series would probably be useful ... the fact that UN/CEFACT is heavily bind to their UMM modeling paradigm (which is a UML implementation)

6) Follow-ups from previous calls


 * audio recording for the July F2F workshop
 * Kurt: mp3 files now ready - will work with Peter to upload them


 * rescheduling of the "Applications of Ontologies in Emergency Response" Panel Discussion
 * Bob: Rex & I will provide a date within two week

7) Current Project Status Report


 * Status CctRepresentation and UblOntology project work
 * watch this work re-surfacing in the upcoming OntologyMeasurementEvaluation exercise
 * of course, this is the basis upon which we are engaging UN/CEFACT with


 * Status of ProtegeKIF project work


 * status of NHIN-RFI & Health-Ont project work
 * ONC meeting coming late Oct. - more info to come ...


 * status of OntologTaxoThesaurus project work
 * Bob: no new development to report (for this call.)


 * UBL liaison report
 * no update


 * SICoP / ONTAC liaison report
 * no update


 * NCOR liaison report
 * no update


 * Planning team report
 * no update

8) Key Issues discussion:


 * Updates on plans for the OntologyMeasurementEvaluation mini-series [SteveRay et al.]
 * Thursday, Oct. 19, 2007 is now confirmed for the opening event of thei series.
 * SteveRay is working on, and will be announcing mmore details shortly


 * Updates on plans for the DatabaseAndOntology mini-series [MatthewWest et al.]
 * Peter: MatthewWest is working on putting the program together. We'll be annoncing more details about the opening event (slated for Oct.06 as well) soon.
 * We'll need to tie down a date for that first eent ASAP. [attn: Matthew & Peter]
 * Tatiana:
 * I can start the work from the database perspective ... but will wait for the ontologists to complete the work with their side of the story


 * Discussion:
 * Tatiana: like to see input ref UMM & UML relating to Ontology
 * Duane: I'll post links to the UNCEFACT UMM
 * Peter: check out ElisaKendall's presentation - http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?WikiHomePage#nidF15
 * Nabonita: besides the very good talk by LeoObrst's on "what is an Ontology," I would also like to find out more about representing abstract concepts
 * Peter: try checking out the talk by these formal ontologists:
 * AdamPease on SUMO - http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?WikiHomePage#nid15 & http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?WikiHomePage#nid1I
 * DougLenat on CYC - http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?WikiHomePage#nidH9M
 * NicolaGuarino on DOLCE - http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?WikiHomePage#nidIQX
 * also ChrisWelty on OntoClean - http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?WikiHomePage#nid16

9) New project proposals

10) Sponsorship and funding


 * Duane: suggest we document the value proposition and vehicle to get corporate support
 * we'll try to tackle this in our next planning session

11) Other business


 * in view of imminent prospects for ontological engineering skills, a new RecruitmentOpportunity page is now up for people to post work opportunities. Members of the community are encouraged to post propsects there.

12) Next meeting date and adjourn


 * Our next meeting/call will be on Thu 2006.09.28
 * this call adjourned 11:28 am PDT

-- minutes captured in real time on this wiki by PeterYim / 2006.09.21-11:31am PDT Attendees are requested to review the notes above, help clean it up, and make amendments and edits to better reflect the proceedings of the session as they see fit (particularly where they are personally involved). =ppy