ConferenceCall 2007 03 22

= [ontolog] Member Conference Call - Thu 2007-03-22 =


 * Topic: Ontolog operations planning and review meeting

Conference Call Details

 * Date: Thursday, March 22, 2007 
 * Start Time: 10:30am PDT / 1:30pm EDT / 17:30 GMT/UTC
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Attendees

 * Attended:
 * KurtConrad
 * PeterYim
 * BobSmith
 * LisaColvin
 * RexBrooks
 * DeniseBedford


 * Expecting:
 * ... to register for participation, please add your name (plus your affiliation, if you aren't already a member of the community) above, or e-mail  so that we can reserve enough resources to support everyone's participation. ...


 * Regrets:
 * SteveRay
 * DougHolmes

Agenda Ideas
(please insert items you would like to see covered here)

we want to go with this project
 * standing items: project reports and event planning
 * PeterYim: discussion on the OntologySummit2007 process and what can help us create better 'value' for the community-at-large
 * DeniseBedford / BobSmith / PeterYim: The OntologTaxoThesaurus Project: where we are now; and where do
 * discussion: should we split the mailing list so the series technical discussion have their own list (without getting members who just want to be involved in the general discussion overwhelmed)

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 community members
 * we now have ~340 subscribers on the [ontolog-forum] list - these will include the general membership, comprising active members, members and observers
 * a total of ~450 subscribers on the [ontolog-invitation] list - this is our event announcement list (our membership would be a subset of those who are subscribed here.)

4) Upcoming meeting & event schedule (near future)


 * Scheduled Ontolog Events:
 * Thursday, 29-March-2007 - Dr. Steven Ray (NIST) presented the 5th Event in the Joint NIST-Ontolog-NCOR "Ontology Evaluation &amp; Measurement" Mini-Series - this was a panel session on the subject of "Probabilistic Reasoning and Ontology Evaluation" - Panelists: Professor Kenneth Baclawski, Professor Kathryn Blackmond Laskey, Dr. Paulo Costa &amp; Dr. Terry Janssen ... Please refer to details at the session wiki page at: ConferenceCall_2007_03_29 ... Audio archives of the session is now available!
 * Thursday, 12-April-2007 - Dr. Matthew West presented the 6th Event in the "Database And Ontology" Mini-Series - Mr. Edward Barkmeyer from NIST was our invited speaker and gave a talk on "Ontologies as the Next Generation Information Models" ... Please refer to details at the session wiki page, at: ConferenceCall_2007_04_12 ... Audio archives of the session is now available!   - awaiting details


 * Other upcoming events of interest - see: RelevantEventsOfInterest2007


 * Ongoing, of couse is:

5) Communications, logistics, & work protocols issues


 * see 8c below

6) Follow-ups from previous calls

7) Current Project Status Report


 * Current Project Status Review:
 * OntologySummit2007
 * DatabaseAndOntology mini-series
 * OntologyMeasurementEvaluation mini-series


 * Status CctRepresentation and UblOntology project work
 * DuaneNickull posted us on how UN/CEFACT acted on our input


 * Status of ProtegeKIF project work
 * nothing new to report


 * status of NHIN-RFI & Health-Ont project work
 * Rex: new NHIN leadership; AHIC sort of in flux; AHRQ doing ongoing work ...
 * Rex / Bob: MarcWine reassigned at GSA, therefore not heading HITOP anymore; Brand is filling-in in the interim.


 * status of OntologTaxoThesaurus project work
 * see 8b below


 * status of OntologyDrivenApplications compilation work
 * nothing new to report


 * status of the ONION project startup
 * CarlMattocks just release ONION v2.1 for review


 * UBL liaison report
 * UBL has agreed to co-sponsor "OntologySummit2007"


 * SICoP / ONTAC liaison report


 * NCOR liaison report
 * Rex: Healthinformatics committee may change from a phone conference communication mode to a e-mail list mode


 * Planning team report - see item 8d below

8) Key Issues discussion:


 * 8a. OntologySummit2007
 * attendance registration
 * the survey
 * process - see: OntologySummit2007_Process
 * framework - being championed by LeoObrst & MichaelGruninger
 * categorization - being championed by ChrisWelty & TomGruber
 * communique - being championed by OlivierBodenreider & FrankOlken
 * co-sponsorship - please help get your organization to join the list of co-sponsors (see: check box at the end of the survey, or e-mail PeterYim about it.)


 * 8b. The OntologTaxoThesaurus Project: where we are now; and where do we want to go with this project
 * Bob: Bob and Denise put together a recap (draft) on "where we are now; and where do we want to go with this project"
 * PeterYim has introduced AjChen who is coordinating the W3C Scientific Publishing task force, who runs a semantic search site and has experience with Lucene (the open source search engine) to join us in this project
 * Denise and Bob will reconvene on Sunday Mar-25, will firm up the directions and then post the document
 * Denise: picking up the work from last summer, will re-run inventory, develop a profile, and then talk to AJ to leverage on his SEARCH expertise
 * taking the taxonomy domain forward


 * 8c. Community Planning
 * discussion: should we split the mailing list so the series technical discussion have their own list (without getting members who just want to be involved in the general discussion overwhelmed)
 * ref: http://ontolog.cim3.net/forum/ontolog-forum/2007-03/msg00378.html
 * the general feeling of this meeting is that the interdisciplinary collaboration and learning opportunity is way too precious to forfeit (which we will if we spin off the current discussion to another list). We should not spin-off the discussion list; client-side message filtering (helping people put the ontolog meesgae into a separate folder) is preferrable.
 * a wiki page has already been set up, please help populate that page with instructions on how to set filters up (for different mail clients; and other means of helping users handle our forum traffic.) See: DealingWithMailingListTraffic
 * maybe some fine tuning of the "digest" mode threshold could help too (unfortunately, the threshold that can be tuned is in number of KB and not the number of message in the mailman system that is being used. The latter would have been great.)
 * Notes on Discussion at this session:
 * Kurt suggests that when we get to 500 members, we should do something to celebrate


 * 8d. event planning - item not discussed
 * invited (need schedule confirmation): BillAndersen
 * (discussed before and) about to invite: AdamPease (update on one of the most poipular talks; KurtConrad), DeborahMcGuinness (on Inference Web; ElisaKendall), Mark Musen (on NCBO and its new "bioportal"; prompted by BarrySmith)

9) New project proposals - item not discussed

10) Sponsorship and funding - item not discussed

11) Other business - item not discussed

12) Next meeting date and adjourn


 * Our next meeting/call will be the Thu 2007.03.22, ... details will be at: ConferenceCall_2007_03_22 ... talk to you then!
 * this call session adjourned 11:33 am PDT

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