ConferenceCall 2006 06 08

= [ontolog] Member Conference Call - Thu 2006-06-08 =

Conference Call Details

 * Subject: [ontolog] member conference call Thu 2006-06-08


 * Date: Thursday, June 8, 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:
 * 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_06_08

Attendees

 * Attended:
 * JackPark
 * PeterYim
 * PatrickDurusau
 * KurtConrad
 * BobSmith
 * DeniseBedford
 * RexBrooks


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


 * Regrets:
 * MatthewWest
 * MarkPalmer
 * ArturoSanchez (schedule conflict)
 * AtillaElci (traveling)
 * DuaneNickull
 * MichaelUschold
 * SteveIhnen

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

 * BobSmith: discussions on the July 23, 2006 F2F workshop program
 * ...(add suggested items here)...

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

4) Upcoming meeting & event schedule (near future)


 * Scheduled Ontolog Events:
 * Continuation of our "Ontologizing the Ontolog Body of Knowledge" series of talks & discussions - http://ontolog.cim3.net/forum//ontolog-forum/2006-05/msg00019.html
 * Thu 2006.06.15 - BobSmith / DeniseBedford - "OntologTaxoThesaurus Project Work Session - Categorizing Concepts" - ConferenceCall_2006_06_15
 * Thu 2006.06.29 - TimRedmond - "Protege Architecture and API" (a session for applications developers)
 * Thu 2006.07.06 - "Ontologizing the Ontolog Body of Knowledge" Discussion Session-2 - Moderators (organizers): EMichaelMaximilien & ConorShankey
 * Thu 2006.07.13 - PatCassidy - "From Controlled Vocabulary to Standard Ontologies" (from the perspective of a formal ontologist)
 * Thu 2006.07.23 - Ontolog F2F Meeting and Workshop colocated with the 9th Protege International Conference (Stanford, CA) - Organizers: BobSmith & KurtConrad
 * we'll hopefully be arranging more functions during this community F2F gathering and the almost weeklong Conference
 * organizers now changed to BobSmith, KurtConrad & RexBrooks
 * Thu 2006.08.10 - SOA Panel Discussion (covering SOA-RM & SOA-RA) - Moderators (organizers): DuaneNickull & RexBrooks
 * Thu 2006.08.31 - Ontology Applications in Emergency Response Panel Discussion - Moderators (organizers): RexBrooks & BobSmith


 * Other upcoming events of interest
 * June 20~22, 2006 - 3-day Collaborative Expedition Wrokshop on Geospatial Information Technology
 * refer to details at: http://colab.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ExpeditionWorkshop/OpenCollaboration_NetworkingGeospatialInformationTechnology_2006_06_20
 * RSVP to ; remote participation is also supported. See: http://colab.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ExpeditionWorkshop/VenueLogistics_2006_06_20

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

6) Follow-ups from previous calls


 * 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)


 * 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
 * KurtConrad (2006.06.08): suggest that maybe we can track down the organizers and liaise with them to see if there is any collaboration potentials -- volunteer to take on this task solicited!

7) Current Project Status Report


 * Status CctRepresentation and UblOntology project work


 * Status of ProtegeKIF project work


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


 * status of OntologTaxoThesaurus project work
 * preparing for next week's work session
 * Denise has put together some slides for next week, Bob will circulate to the team


 * UBL liaison report
 * SICoP / ONTAC liaison report
 * NCOR relationship - pending
 * Planning team report

8) Key Issues discussion:


 * OntologWorkshop_July_2006 organizing committee report & discussion
 * Ontolog Face to Face Workshop see http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?OntologWorkshop_July_2006
 * Key Dates and Expectations, Contingencies (May 29th deadline extensions?)
 * Recruiting efforts
 * Program Committee-Social Committee Logistics and Wiki Support
 * Etc.
 * Denise will probably be able to join us at the July 23 face-to-face
 * Bob will arrange to send her an 'invitation'
 * Steve will consider having people from NIST come join us at the F2F (Rex suggests KC Morris, if possible)
 * Peter: will try to invite SRI people over, since they are going through an exercise rather similar to ours (which culminates in the 7/23 F2F)
 * had some discussion on cadidate participants to the 2F
 * may need to extend the 6/29 CFP
 * need to recruit a champion to work with Kurt and Rex for scheduling some social activities and other meetings - RexBrooks (Kurt will join them too) will try to get some sugestion from MarkMusen
 * candidates additional meetings: Stanford SMI, KSL; SRI-AI-Lab, EPRI, IBM-Almaden Research Center, PARC; company with DougEngelbart;
 * JackPark: SRI receptive to hosting a meeting at the AI Center; and see the value to arranging some presentations by Ontolog members and their work (e.g. intro to Ontolog, Denise, SOA, ...) to the AI Center people during the meeting.
 * members of the organizing committee will continue to pursue this with Jack.


 * Discussion:
 * PeterYim (2006.06.07): I am hoping we can engage the proponents of various approaches (OntologTaxoThesaurus, Concept Extraction & Clustering, Subject Maps, openIRIS, UIMA, Folksonomy, CUO-extension on controlled-vocabulary, ....) to showcase their solutions, using the "Ontologizing of the Ontolog Body of Knowledge" as their test case. ... Even better, come up with some ways and means to allow these methodologies to be "integrated" into something that REALLY make sense (i.e. NOT just for the sake of the exercise), and is more comprehensive than any of the individual solutions. ... I believe that is what BobSmith, DeniseBedford, EMichaelMaximilien, JackPark & PatrickDurusau and PatCassidy are all alluding to, all along. ... No one has actually taken the project on, though. This series of event, culminating in our 2006.07.23 F2F workshop, may hopefully, create that opportunity.
 * PeterYim (2006.06.06): suggest that the organizing committee might make an attempt to find the intersection between (1.a) speakers and panelists of our current "Ontologizing the Ontolog BOK" series AND (1.b) the UOS conveners and organizers, with (2) the Protege Conference registrants (find out from SMI); and engage those people in our workshop discourse.
 * PeterYim (2006.06.06): suggest that the organizing committee might make an attempt to find the intersection between (1.a) speakers and panelists of our current "Ontologizing the Ontolog BOK" series AND (1.b) the UOS conveners and organizers, with (2) the Protege Conference registrants (find out from SMI); and engage those people in our workshop discourse.

9) New project proposals

10) Sponsorship and funding

11) Other business

12) Next meeting date and adjourn


 * Our next meeting/call will be next Thu 2006.06.15 - with BobSmith & DeniseBedford running a: "OntologTaxoThesaurus Project Work Session - Categorizing Concepts" - ref: ConferenceCall_2006_06_15
 * this call adjourned 11:31 am PDT

-- minutes captured in real time on this wiki by PeterYim / 2006.06.08-11:35am PDT