ConferenceCall 2007 09 20

= [ontolog] Member Conference Call - Thu 2007-09-20 =


 * There being no scheduled special event today, this is expected to be a regular operations planning and review meeting for active members of the Ontolog community, if members of the community has items they put on the agenda. ... The meeting is open to all who are interested, RSVP (offline to peter.yim@cim3.com) appreciated.


 * the meeting is subject to cancellation, one hour before start time, if we do not reach a minimum of 3 expected attendees, or if it is deemed that we don't have issues interesting enough to warrant taking up people's time for the call.

Conference Call Details

 * Date: Thursday, Sep. 20, 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
 * When calling in from a phone, use Conference ID: "5823120#"
 * from a US telephone (US): +1-605-475-8590 (South Dakota, USA)
 * from Europe, call:
 * Belgium 070-35-9989
 * France 0826-100-277
 * Germany 01805-00-7649
 * Ireland 0818-270-034
 * Italy 0848-390-175
 * Switzerland 0848-560-195
 * UK 0870-738-0763
 * callers from other countries please dial into either one of the US or European numbers


 * RSVP to [mailto:peter.yim@cim3.com peter.yim@cim3.com] appreciated.


 * Shared-screen support (VNC session), if applicable, will be started 5 minutes before the call at: http://vnc2.cim3.net:5800/
 * 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_09_20

Attendees

 * Attended:
 * PeterYim
 * DougHolmes


 * Expecting:

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


 * Regrets:

Agenda Ideas
(please insert your ideas below)


 * LeoObrst / PeterYim: soliciting Ontolog support and endorsement to have ISWC 2009 be held in the Great Washington DC Area (Northern Virginia to be exact)
 * Letter of endorsement needed to support Mike Dean (BBN) to present the proposal (on behalf of the proponents) during the upcoming ISWC 2007 conference in Korea

Agenda & Proceedings
1) Welcome & confirmation of agenda


 * since only two were online, no one 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, 18-Oct-2007 - Dr. Matthew West and Dr. Leo Obrst presented the 11th session in the "Database And Ontology" series - Dr. Alan Wu from Oracle's Database Semantic Technologies Group was our invited speaker. This is the second of the two-part presentation from Oracle and was focused more on Oracle's OWL Inferencing implementation. Dr. Wu's talk was entitled: "A Scalable RDBMS-Based Inference Engine for RDFS/OWL." Please refer to details at the session wiki page, at: ConferenceCall_2007_10_18 ... Audio archives of the session is now available!
 * Thursday, 18-Oct-2007 - Dr. Matthew West and Dr. Leo Obrst presented the 11th session in the "Database And Ontology" series - Dr. Alan Wu from Oracle's Database Semantic Technologies Group was our invited speaker. This is the second of the two-part presentation from Oracle and was focused more on Oracle's OWL Inferencing implementation. Dr. Wu's talk was entitled: "A Scalable RDBMS-Based Inference Engine for RDFS/OWL." Please refer to details at the session wiki page, at: ConferenceCall_2007_10_18 ... Audio archives of the session is now available!


 * Other upcoming events of interest - see: RelevantEventsOfInterest2007


 * on deck are - more talk in the DatabaseAndOntology series, MarkMusen, NatashaNoy, TimRedmond-TaniaTudorache-PeterYim, JohnBateman, DeborahMcGuinness, ... etc. etc.
 * KenBaclawski: also on Uncertainty & Decision Support, possibility to grow that into a mini-series
 * Ontolog-NASA mini-series still pending first organizing committee conference call and launch date

5) Communications, logistics, & work protocols issues

6) Follow-ups from previous calls

7) Current Project Status Report - skipped


 * Current Project Status Review:


 * Status CctRepresentation and UblOntology project work.


 * Status of ProtegeKIF project work.


 * status of NHIN-RFI & Health-Ont project work.


 * status of OntologTaxoThesaurus project work


 * status of OntologyDrivenApplications compilation work.


 * status of the ONION project startup.


 * UBL liaison report
 * SICoP / ONTAC liaison report
 * NCOR liaison report


 * Planning team report

8) Key Issues discussion:


 * LeoObrst / PeterYim: soliciting Ontolog support and endorsement to have ISWC 2009 be held in the Great Washington DC Area (Northern Virginia to be exact)
 * Letter of endorsement needed to support Mike Dean (BBN) to present the proposal (on behalf of the proponents) during the upcoming ISWC 2007 conference in Korea
 * Peter will make a post to [pntolog-forum] suggesting we provide that "letter of endorsement", give people a couple of weeks to respond, and if there are no major objections, we'll go ahead to provide that letter.


 * Doug also voiced his support on how the "open vs. proprietary vs. commercial-/self- promotion posts" situation got settled.

10) Sponsorship and funding.

11) Other business.

12) Next meeting date and adjourn


 * Our next meeting/call will be the Thu 2007.09.27. Details will be at ConferenceCall_2007_09_27 ... talk to you then!


 * this call session adjourned 10:43am PDT

-- minutes captured in real time on this wiki by PeterYim / 2007.09.20-10:46 am 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