ConferenceCall 2007 08 30

= [ontolog] Member Conference Call - Thu 2007-08-30 =


 * 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.


 * 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.

Conference Call Details

 * Date: Thursday, Aug. 30, 2007 
 * Start Time: 10:30am PDT / 1:30pm EDT / 6:30pm BST / 17:30 GMT/UTC
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 * Expected Call Duration: ~1.0 hours
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Attendees

 * Attended:
 * PeterYim
 * KenBaclawski
 * RexBrooks
 * SteveRay


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


 * Regrets:

Agenda Ideas
... (please insert your ideas below)

Semantic Technologies Workshop co-located with the 6th International Semantic Web Conference, I have been continuing my interests in health informatics, and I suspect the time is approaching when I should bring this topic and emergency response management back up in the Ontolog Forum. The question is when.
 * RexBrooks: I submitted a paper to the First 1st Industrial Results of

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, 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!
 * 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: HolgerKnublauch 2008.01.24, etc.
 * MarkMusen, NatashaNoy, TimRedmond-TaniaTudorache-PeterYim, DeborahMcGuinness, JohnBateman, ... etc. etc.
 * KenBaclawski: also on Uncertainty & Decision Support, possibility to grow that into a mini-series
 * Ken will update later;
 * Rex suggest to Ken that Saul Rosenburg from UCSF is getting funded on some related decision support work
 * NASA-Ontolog mini-series - ref: http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2007_07_26#nid131R
 * OntologTaxoThesaurus work session, planned for Thursday ConferenceCall_2006_09_27

5) Communications, logistics, & work protocols issues

6) Follow-ups from previous calls

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.
 * HHS distributed a Notice of Funding Availability and a meeting to discuss the successor to AHIC - Rex will post more info to [ontolog-forum]
 * For more information and to register online, go to http://www.hhs.gov/healthit/community/background/PublicMeetingSeptember5.html


 * 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:


 * RexBrooks - health informatics, emergency response management etc.
 * Rex: landscape is shaping up a bit more
 * Barry's suggestion to have MarkMusen provide an update on NCBO is a good idea
 * Rex: OASIS EDXL-Hospital Availability Exchange, EDXL-Resource Message are both through the first (60-day) public review now. Probably time to do a session about them after they're through the 2nd (60-day) public review.
 * Panel Discussion - tentatively, let's lock in 14-Feb-2008 now
 * done: see - http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?MeetingsCalls#nid13W6

9) Sponsorship and funding.

10) Other business.


 * Steve told us that he will be try to be more active after the summer


 * Steve: (responding to Rex) sustainable manufacturing will be getting more attention
 * The international IMS research consortium is particularly interested in sustainable manufacturing too
 * Rex: BobSmith is probably more interested in that. I (Rex) is more interested in emergency management, quality/reliability of the messages, sensor-net, etc.

11) Next meeting date and adjourn


 * Our next meeting/call will be the Thu 2007.09.06, with invited speaker AdamPease providing an update on SUMO. Details will be at ConferenceCall_2007_09_06 ... talk to you then!


 * this call session adjourned 11:12 am PDT

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