ConferenceCall 2006 03 09

= [ontolog] Member Conference Call - Thu 2006-03-09 =

Conference Call Details

 * Subject: [ontolog] member conference call Thu 2006-03-09


 * Date: Thursday, Mar. 9, 2006
 * Start Time: 10:30 AM PST / 1:30 PM EST / 18:30 UTC World Clock
 * Expected Call Duration: 1 ~ 1.5 hour
 * Dial-in Number: 1-641-696-6600 (Iowa) - note: new call-in number
 * Participant Access Code: "686564#"


 * Agenda Comments:
 * ... build rapport; ... sync up; ... distribute, assign or arbitrate virtual ownership of tasks; ... and use it to deal with emergencies. ... plus, member suggested agenda items.
 * 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
 * VNC session (if needed) will be started 5 minutes before the call at: http://vnc2.cim3.net:5800/
 * view-only password: "ontolog"
 * view-and-control pw: to be supplied during session as needed
 * Wiki page for this call (i.e. this page) is at: http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2006_03_09

Attendees

 * Attended:
 * PeterYim
 * RoyRoebuck
 * LeoObrst
 * RexBrooks
 * PatCassidy
 * KurtConrad


 * Expecting:
 * DeniseBedford
 * ...(add your name here)...''


 * Regrets:
 * BarrySmith
 * ConorShankey
 * DuaneNickull
 * EMichaelMaximilien

Agenda Ideas

 * Plan the next 3 months' speaker and technical discussion sessions
 * ...(add suggested items here)...

Agenda & Proceedings
1) Welcome & confirmation of agenda


 * PeterYim took the chair and welcomed everyone.

2) Appointment of secretary to take minutes


 * PeterYim volunteered

3) Roll-call of participants


 * see above

4) Upcoming meeting & event schedule (near future)


 * Reference: Nominal meeting types (on a monthly basis):
 * member regular meeting
 * invited speaker session
 * scheduled discussion
 * project review
 * workshop / work session
 * planning


 * Scheduled Ontolog Events (point person)
 * Wed Mar. 15, 2006 - UpperOntologySummit - organizing committee formed and working on it (PeterYim)
 * (Joint Communique Prep) UpperOntologySummit/UosConvenerMeeting_2006_03_14
 * (UO Application Dialog) UpperOntologySummit/UosApplicationDialogMeeting_2006_03_15
 * UpperOntologSummitMeeting_2006_03_15
 * above sessions are accessible onsite (at NIST, Gaithersburg, MD, US) with pre-registration, or via remote dial-in


 * Invited Speaker Schedule for the next 3~6 months:
 * Candidate -
 * SimonBuckinghamShum of the Compendium Institute ( ? ; ref. post from ScottLHolmes & PeterYim's response)
 * LarryReeker of NIST (suggested by SusanTurnbull)
 * John Sowa (suggested by BillMcCarthy)
 * other suggestions:
 * Monica: suggest inviting someone from the [regrep] group
 * Rex suggsted we should also invite UDDI and XMDR people, and possibly to have all three parties (regrep, uddi & xmdr) on a panel
 * Peter also suggested that we should invite Dieter Fensel to talk to us some time
 * Rex / Peter: XMDR - BruceBargmeyer or someone from his XMDR team
 * PeterYim / ElisaKendall: PatHayes, DeborahMcGuinness
 * To be brought up for discussion:
 * ChrisMenzel: BillAndersen
 * BrandNiemann / MarkMusen / PeterYim: Frank Hartel (NIH/NCI)
 * BrandNiemann / PeterYim: RoyRoebuck
 * DuaneNickull: suggesting candidates from Microsoft - Phil Berstein & Sergey Melnik - ref: http://ontolog.cim3.net/forum//ontolog-forum/2005-08/msg00027.html
 * DuaneNickull: EricMiller, Tim Berners-Lee of W3C
 * ChrisMenzel & PeterYim: ChrisMenzel some time early 2006 - on some of the work he is doing at Boeing)
 * PeterBrown & PeterYim (new!): PeterBrown some time early 2006 - on the EU project that PeterBrown has been working on in Austria: of building an "eGovernment Resources Network" - the issues relating to handling the exchange of reference information about eGovernment services across the continent - in many languages. This could serve as an interesting case study of what we are looking for from so-called "semantic web services".
 * BrandNiemann (new! input/2005.10.15): EricPeterson - who's been working on an OWL version of the FEA-DRM and who was to lead the COSMO development subgroup in the newly formed SICoP / ONTAC-WG. The new lead is DagobertSoergel from University of Maryland; we should consider inviting him too.
 * MillsDavis (new! / 2005.11.26) - Conor Shankey (CEO, Visual Knowledge)
 * PeterYim (new! / 2005.11.28) - AdamCheyer, SRI, on the CALO project
 * PeterYim (new! Prompted by Doug Lenat's talk) - MikeGenesereth (director of the Stanford Logic Group)
 * BobSmith / PeterYim / EMichaelMaximilien (new! / 2006.01.09) - TomGruber
 * suggest we also try to invite candidate speakers to join us at weekly calls and other ontolog events so that they get more familiar with the community and vice versa
 * RexBrooks (new! / 2006.01.25) - JoeChiusano of Booz Allen Hamilton
 * PeterYim (new! 2006.02.14) - JackPark of SRI on topic maps, openiris, tagging contents, ...
 * DuaneNickull (new! 2006.02.28) - Robert Tolksdorf of Freie Universität Berlin (Germany) or someone from their group
 * ref. their "Semantic Technologies in Collaborative Applications (STICA 06)" - http://www.inf.fu-berlin.de/inst/ag-nbi/conf/STICA06/
 * LeoObrst (new! 2006.03.09) - RobinMcEntire from Glaxo Smith Klein for his application expire (he was at the NCOR inauguration)
 * LeoObrst (new! 2006.03.09) - BobMcGregor from Siderean (previously ISI)
 * LeoObrst (new! 2006.03.09) - others from ISI like EdHovey ...
 * LeoObrst (new! 2006.03.09) - RichardFikes from Stanford KSL
 * LeoObrst (new! 2006.03.09) - IanHorrocks from University of Manchester
 * LeoObrst (new! 2006.03.09) - PeterPatelSchneider from Bell Labs


 * near future - Conor, Jack & Roy - Kurt and Peter will follow-up with these speakers off-line


 * EMichaelMaximilien will ping MikeGenesereth and some potential UIMA speakers on behalf of the community


 * Scheduled Discussions for the next 3 months - * = extended discussion under item 8 below:
 * EMichaelMaximilien / NicolasRouquette / DeniseBedford / PeterYim - tagging the Ontolog (knowledge repository) content*
 * RexBrooks / BobSmith - ontology application in emergency response*
 * Other candidates:
 * Rex: possibility of working with Duane on a follow-up to the last SOA discussion
 * Rex suggsted we should also invite UDDI and XMDR people, and possibly to have all three parties (regrep, uddi & xmdr) on a panel
 * Adam: need OWL & SWRL for OWL ontologies to really be useful
 * NicolasRouquette -- other topics lined up?
 * Kurt: we should revisit "CCTS ontology" for Nov. (even Sep.) - we'll talk to Duane again if he shows up next week; if he doesn't Kurt, will ping Duane.
 * Anders: we should have a "Tools / Testing" discussion
 * Kurt: "on metamodels, independent of the representation" (at a level that allows us to avoid the language war)
 * Bob: as a segway into things like pi-calculus, tec.
 * PeterYim: "moving from data standards to data-model- and semantic-model-driven eBusiness standards"
 * candidate panelists: BruceBarqmeyer, MarkCrawford, ElisaKendall, AdamPease, MikeDaconta, JimHendler, SteveRay (moderator?)
 * maybe a joint SICoP-Ontolog event, as part of another Collaborative Expedition Workshop?
 * more session for the "Ontolgy Applications and Implementations" series
 * (new! 2006.01.26) - tagging multimedia and other Ontolog content for podcast & semantic search


 * Upcoming Events of interest
 * Tuesday March 14, 2006 - Collaborative Expedition Workshop #49 - Leveraging Open Standards and Open Collaboration: Pioneering Mechanisms for Agility Across Open, Intergovernmental Communities - accessible both onsite at NIST (Gaithersburg, MD) or via remote Dial-in - see: http://colab.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ExpeditionWorkshop/LeveragingOpenStandardsOpenCollaboration_BuildingAgilityAcrossOpenCommunities

5) Communications, logistics, & work protocols issues

6) Follow-ups from previous calls


 * Engaging UN/CEFACT:
 * how about BillMcCarthy ... are you planning to be there at Vancouver, Bill?
 * Conor Shankey (who is in Vancouver) has graciously agreed to represent the community, if Bill is not available.


 * Presenting at the OASIS Symposium 2006 (9-12 May 2006, San Francisco, CA) - Proposal submission deadline: 20 December 2005 - discussion postponed
 * Duane and Rex are submitting, requesting that they cover our (Ontolog) work as a sidebar
 * Rex will be presenting - he will put in a good word for this community


 * Bob and Nicolas will work on the ontological lessons learned in our exercise on RegularConferenceCall scheduling -- (Bob / Nicolas - please bring closure to this item) - discussion postponed (unless we have time)

7) Current Project Status Report - discussion postponed


 * Status CCT-Representation and UBL-Ontology project work
 * Requirements issues (ref: http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?UseCases)
 * Formalization issues
 * [CCT-Rep] status report


 * Status of Protege-KIF project work


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


 * UBL liaison report


 * SICoP liaison report


 * NCOR relationship - pending


 * Planning team report


 * UpperOntologySummit - organizing committee report

8) Key Issues discussion:


 * Planning our events for the next quarter
 * worksheet updated - see: http://ontolog.cim3.net/file/work/Ontolog-planning/Ontolog_Event_Plan_2006_20060309e.doc
 * we managed to lock in a few dates:
 * RoyRoebuck - Invited Speaker session - Mar. 30, 2006 [this was subsequently postponed, due to Roy's unavailability for 3/30]
 * RexBrooks & BobSmith - Ontology Applications in Emergency Response Panel Discussion - June 22, 2006
 * DuaneNickull & RexBrooks - SOA Panel Discussion (covering SOA-RM & SOA-RA) - Aug. 24, 2006
 * still need to confirm the "Tagging Ontolog Content" Discussion Sessions 1 & 2 dates (see next bullet, below) [attn: Denise, Max, Conor - please advise]


 * from our 2006.02.16 & prior discussion
 * "Tagging Ontolog Content" Discussion Sessions - a.k.a. " A pilot exercise toward building an ontology application"
 * session 1: what do we want to do? (i.e. to do with the content we are tagging)
 * moderators: Denise, Max & Nicolas
 * date: 2nd week April 2006
 * candidate panelists:
 * session 2: what are the technologies available? ... and what are our constraints and choices of technology to get the job done?
 * moderators: Max & Conor
 * date: end April or early May
 * candidate panelists:


 * Discussion
 * RoyRoebuck - let's develop physical representations of the range of models/technology available now (placeholder only, Roy, please expand on this thought.)


 * LeoObrst: NCOR is planning a Ontology summer school at Buffalo - our interest would be both to learn and to teach


 * KurtConrad: we have about 12 Ontolog folks at SemTech2006, maybe we can do some get together when they convene next year

(b) RexBrooks / BobSmith - ontology application in emergency response technical discussion session


 * possibly May - Rex and Bob will co-moderate

(c) Do we want to do another Ontolog face-to-face workshop at the Ninth International Protege Conference that is scheduled to be held July 23-26, 2006 in Stanford, California? -- ref: http://ontolog.cim3.net/forum//ontolog-forum/2006-02/msg00028.html


 * definitely want to do this - consider to have Bob & Kurt lead this
 * definitely want to do this - consider to have Bob & Kurt lead this


 * project work session / discussion - Beginning of Year Planning for Ontolog -- to be postponed to the next membership conference call - discussion postponed (unless we have time)
 * SWOT Analysis
 * strengths
 * weaknesses
 * opportunities
 * threats


 * initiatives for this year


 * action plans

9) New project proposals

10) Sponsorship and funding

11) Other business

12) Next meeting date and adjourn


 * Our next meeting/call will be the UpperOntologySummit and associated preparation sessions:
 * UpperOntologySummit/UosApplicationDialogMeeting_2006_03_15
 * UpperOntologSummitMeeting_2006_03_15
 * see you there! RSVP by Sat 3/11/06 even for remote attendance
 * this call adjourned 11:20 am PST

-- minutes captured in real time on this wiki by PeterYim / 2006.03.09-11:21 am PST