ConferenceCall 2006 05 18

= [ontolog] Member Conference Call - Thu 2006-05-18 =

Conference Call Details

 * Subject: [ontolog] member conference call Thu 2006-05-18


 * Date: Thursday, May 18, 2006
 * Start Time: 10:30 AM PDT / 1:30 PM EDT / 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:
 * ... build rapport; ... sync up; ... distribute, assign or arbitrate virtual ownership of tasks; ... and use it to deal with emergencies. ... plus, member suggested agenda items.
 * in particular, we will devote time into the planning of upcoming Ontolog Events
 * 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_05_18

Attendees

 * Attended:
 * RexBrooks
 * PeterYim
 * KurtConrad
 * BobSmith
 * EMichaelMaximilien
 * ConorShankey
 * PatHeinig


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


 * Regrets:
 * DeniseBedford
 * LisaColvin
 * SteveIhnen
 * MatthewWest
 * DagobertSoergel
 * ArturoSanchez
 * SteveRay
 * PatrickDurusau

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

 * more planning discussion on the events and the July 2006 Ontolog face-to-face meeting (colocated and as a part of the Protege International Workshop) at Stanford, CA
 * BobSmith:
 * The OASIS Interoperability conference in general, and
 * the ebXML efforts may deserve some discussion.
 * Also, it might be helpful to express the direction in which the Taxo_Thesaurus Project is going, with reference to the following week's discussion.
 * ...(add suggested items here)...

Agenda & Proceedings
1) Welcome & confirmation of agenda


 * RexBrooks 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)
 * Thu 2006.06.08 - "Ontologizing the Ontolog Body of Knowledge" Discussion Session-2 - Moderators (organizers): EMichaelMaximilien & ConorShankey
 * Max: may want to postpone. Will discuss under item 8 on this agenda.
 * a Thu in Jun. 1, 2006 TBC - MatthewWest - on "ISO 18876 - integration of industrial data for exchange access and sharing (IIDEAS)" - ref: http://ontolog.cim3.net/forum//ontolog-forum/2006-04/msg00092.html
 * Thu 2006.06.22 - Ontology Applications in Emergency Response Panel Discussion - Moderators (organizers): RexBrooks & BobSmith
 * Peter: may request shuffling this schedule too. Will discuss under item 8 on this agenda.
 * Thu 2006.07.23 - Ontolog F2F Meeting and Workshop colocated with the 7th Protege International Conference (Stanford, CA) - Organizers: BobSmith & KurtConrad
 * organizers now changed to BobSmith, KurtConrad & RexBrooks
 * Thu 2006.08.24 - SOA Panel Discussion (covering SOA-RM & SOA-RA) - Moderators (organizers): DuaneNickull & RexBrooks


 * Invited Speaker Schedule for the next 3~6 months:
 * Candidate -
 * MikeGenesereth - EMichaelMaximilien is inviting him on behalf of our community
 * SimonBuckinghamShum of the Compendium Institute ( ? ; ref. post from ScottLHolmes & PeterYim's response)
 * LarryReeker of NIST (suggested by SusanTurnbull)
 * JohnSowa (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: 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 (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 (2005.11.26) - Conor Shankey (CEO, Visual Knowledge)
 * PeterYim (2005.11.28) - AdamCheyer, SRI, on the CALO project
 * PeterYim (Prompted by Doug Lenat's talk) - MikeGenesereth (director of the Stanford Logic Group)
 * EMichaelMaximilien will ping MikeGenesereth and some potential UIMA speakers on behalf of the community
 * BobSmith / PeterYim / EMichaelMaximilien (2006.01.23) - 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 (2006.01.25) - JoeChiusano of Booz Allen Hamilton
 * PeterYim (2006.02.14) - JackPark of SRI on topic maps, openiris, tagging contents, ...
 * DuaneNickull (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/
 * PeterYim - UOS 'custodians' whom we have not had a chance to hear, in more depth: JohnBateman, TillMossakowski & AldoGangemi
 * LeoObrst - RobinMcEntire from Glaxo Smith Klein for his application expire (he was at the NCOR inauguration)
 * LeoObrst - BobMcGregor from Siderean (previously ISI)
 * LeoObrst - others from ISI like EdHovey, SergeiNirenburg, ...
 * LeoObrst - RichardFikes from Stanford KSL
 * LeoObrst - IanHorrocks from University of Manchester
 * LeoObrst - PeterPatelSchneider from Bell Labs
 * PeterYim & MarkMusen (new! 2006.04.29) - TimRedmond on "The Protege API"
 * EdDodds & PeterYim (new! 2006.05.17): John Breslin of DERI on SIOC (Semantically-Interlinked Online Communities) - ref: http://rdfs.org/sioc/ & http://ontolog.cim3.net/forum//ontolog-forum/2006-05/msg00014.html
 * PeterYim (new! 2006.05.17): PatCassidy on "From Controlled Vocabulary to Common Upper Ontology" (tentative; exact topic to be confirmed.)
 * PeterYim (new! 2006.05.17): JohnBateman on GUM and on Bremen Ontology Research Group's approach to Ontologizing their body of knowledge
 * LeoObrst / BobSmith / PeterYim (new! 2006.06.16): MartinHepp of DERI


 * Scheduled Discussions for the next 3 months:
 * see above
 * Other candidates:
 * Rex suggsted we should also invite UDDI and XMDR people, and possibly to have all three parties (regrep, uddi & xmdr) on a panel
 * 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
 * RexBrooks (new! - 2006.05.18) - stake in the ground - Let's do a discussion session on "registries" - maybe in Sep. 2006?
 * (Rex / Max): not everyone are advocating the the use of public registries as the optimal solution for SOA, though


 * Upcoming Events of interest
 * May 23-24 2006 - Service Oriented Architecture for E-government Conference at MITRE - http://colab.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?SOAforEGovernment_2006_05_2324

5) Communications, logistics, & work protocols issues - no discussion

6) Follow-ups from previous calls


 * A brief from the OASIS Interoperability conference and the ebXML effort (BobSmith)
 * Bob: a lot of what has transpired is relevant to our upcoming F2F workshop
 * Ontolog is probably the largest faction that is pushing for a semantic technology solution there


 * Engaging UN/CEFACT
 * Kurt: suggest we schedule a UN/CEFACT-ONTOLOG joint teleconference (hopefully on a Thursday) so that we can do a focused discussion
 * will need to follow-up with BillMcCarthy & AndersTell
 * Rex: there will be a joint OASIS-ITU conference in Oct. 2006 (UN/CEFACT & ebXML is related somehow)


 * 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) - Bob agreed that's we will take this off the agenda.

7) Current Project Status Report


 * Ontolog support letter to MarkMusen / Protege project - http://ontolog.cim3.net/forum//ontolog-forum/2006-03/msg00032.html
 * Letter despatched by KurtConrad on behalf of our community - see: http://ontolog.cim3.net/forum//ontolog-forum/2006-04/msg00084.html (Thanks, Kurt!)


 * Status CctRepresentation and UblOntology project work - no new update
 * Requirements issues (ref: http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?UseCases)
 * Formalization issues
 * [CCT-Rep] status report


 * Status of ProtegeKIF project work - no new update


 * status of NHIN-RFI & Health-Ont project work - no new update


 * report on UpperOntologySummit follow-up work
 * paper submitted (2006.05.08) for presentation at FOIS-2006 (Baltimore, USA, November 9-11, 2006) - LeoObrst et al.
 * whitepaper for The Applied Ontology Journal submitted (2006.05.12) - LeoObrst et al.


 * status of OntologTaxoThesaurus project work - see discussion under item 8


 * UBL liaison report - no new update


 * SICoP / ONTAC liaison report - no new update


 * NCOR relationship - pending - no new update


 * Planning team report - see item 8 below

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.doc (current version) ... also ref: working copy (during this call)


 * Scheduled discussion events:
 * Thu 2006.06.08 - "Ontologizing the Ontolog Body of Knowledge" Discussion Session-2 - Moderators (organizers): EMichaelMaximilien & Conor Shankey
 * shifting this (tentatively) to 2006.07.15
 * Thu 2006.06.22 - Ontology Applications in Emergency Response Panel Discussion - Moderators (organizers): RexBrooks & BobSmith
 * may shift this to "after the 2006.07.23 face-to-face" -- tentatively 2006.08.10
 * Thu 2006.08.24 - SOA Panel Discussion (covering SOA-RM & SOA-RA) - Moderators (organizers): DuaneNickull & RexBrooks


 * dates being shuffled - Peter will coordinate with Max, Conor, Natasha, Rex and Bob to try to fit everything in - Ref: working copy of planner.
 * ideally:
 * 2006.06.01 - Application Integration / ISO 18876
 * 2006.06.08 - no (special) event
 * Tagging Session2 - 2006.06.15
 * (update: no special event now - was:) Protege Ontology Development - 2006.06.22
 * (update: have to postpone this to another time ... conclusion from a phone conversation between Peter and Natasha. =ppy/2006.05.18-15:20)
 * Protege architecture & API - 2006.06.29
 * 2006.07.06 - no (special) event
 * From Controlled Vocabulary to Formal Ontology - 2006.07.13
 * Ontolog F2F workshop - 2006.07.23
 * Peter will try to tie all the dates down within this week


 * 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
 * ref: OntologWorkshop_July_2006 & OntologWorkshop_July_2006/WorkshopCfp
 * Kurt: draft letter just circulated
 * Rex: will be able to bring in speakers from OASIS, ... etc.
 * Peter: need to get the annoucnement and CFP out ASAP
 * also: note registration requirements and deadlines for the Protege Conference (attendees to the workshop needs to be registered as a Protege Conference attendee.)

9) New project proposals - no discussion

10) Sponsorship and funding - no discussion

11) Other business - discussion deferred


 * Should we have a joint presence at OIS2006? - OIS2006: 1st International Workshop on Ontologizing Industrial Standards
 * this is exactly what we said we'll strive to do on our charter! - ref: http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?WikiHomePage#nidB
 * November 6-9, 2006 - Tucson, Arizona, USA - colocated with the 25th International Conference on Conceptual Modeling (ER2006)
 * see: http://ontolog.cim3.net/forum//ontolog-forum/2006-03/msg00020.html & http://events.deri.at/ois2006/
 * EMichaelMaximilien is in contact with some of these people ... he can help relay questions if we have any
 * conflict with 5th International Semantic Web Conference (same week, but in Athens, Georgia)
 * abstract deadline is May 1, 2006 (so we still have some time to get organized if we want to really do something)
 * this is definitely relevant to us ... let's think things over and come back for more discussion at the next call

12) Next meeting date and adjourn


 * Our next meeting/callwill be next Thu 2006.05.25 - part of the call will be devoted to discussion of the recently established OntologTaxoThesaurus project
 * this call adjourned 11:56 am PDT

-- minutes captured in real time on this wiki by PeterYim / 2006.05.18-12:11pm PDT