ConferenceCall 2007 06 14

= [ontolog] Member Conference Call - Thu 2007-06-14 =

Regular operations planning and review meeting (for active members)

Conference Call Details

 * Date: Thursday, June 14, 2007 
 * Start Time: 10:30am PDT / 1:30pm EDT / 6:30pm BST / 17:30 GMT/UTC
 * ref: World Clock


 * Expected Call Duration: ~1.0 hours
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Attendees

 * Attended:
 * PeterYim
 * ArnoldYim
 * DougHolmes
 * KenBaclawski


 * Expecting:
 * ... RSVP by adding your name here, or e-mail  ...


 * Regrets:

Agenda Ideas

 * PeterYim: event planning for the next quarter
 * PeterBrown: revisiting "split up" of the discussion forum
 * ... (add your suggested agenda items here)

Agenda and 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, 28-Jun-2007 - We had the 8th Event in the "Database And Ontology" Mini-Series - The session was co-chaired by Dr. Matthew West and Dr. Susie Stephens. Dr. SouripriyaDas and Dr. MelliyalAnnamalai from Oracle were their invited speakers who gave a talk on: "Building Database Infrastructure for Managing Semantic Data". ... Please refer to details at the session wiki page, at: ConferenceCall_2007_06_28 ... Audio archives of the session is now available!    - note updated info
 * Thursday, 05-Jul-2007 - Dr. Matthew West presented the 9th Event in the "Database And Ontology" Mini-Series - ChrisPartridge from the BORO Center, UK was our invited speaker. He gave a talk on "Data and process revisited: ontology driving a paradigm shift in the development of business application systems." ... Please refer to details at the session wiki page, at: ConferenceCall_2007_07_05 ... Audio archives of the session is now available!
 * Thursday, 12-Jul-2007 - Dr. Susie Stephens and Dr. Matthew West presented the 10th Event in the "Database And Ontology" Mini-Series - Dr. John Sowa from VivoMind Intelligence was be our invited speaker. Dr. Sowa gave a talk on: "Analogical Reasoning With and About Databases and Knowledge Bases". Please refer to details at the session wiki page, at: ConferenceCall_2007_07_12 ... Audio archives of the session is now available!   - still need to confirm with John on the date.
 * 2nd session by Oracle folks with AlanWu as main speaker, and possibly others. The session will cover their OWL-related work, and is tentatively scheduled for Thu 2007.10.18


 * Other upcoming events of interest - see: RelevantEventsOfInterest2007


 * on deck are - more talk in the DatabaseAndOntology series, BillAndersen, MarkMusen, DeborahMcGuinness, JohnBateman, ... etc. etc.
 * KenBaclawski: also on Uncertainty & Decision Support, possibility to grow that into a mini-series
 * KenBaclawski: suggestions for another session featuring new developments in triples- and quads- stores; Ken will ping MatthewWest on it.
 * Leo: suggest trying to have people from Franz (Allgero Graph) & OWLIM (Ontotext) from Bulgaria
 * Peter: suggest we get Ken onto the program committee for this mini-series
 * Jeanne Holm and possibility of other NASA/JPL perspectives ... possibility to integrating this with the candidate "informal ontology" mini-series (below)? ... Peter: still exploring
 * PeterYim: will continue to pursue the "informal ontology" mini-series idea mentioned last week - ref: http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2007_05_31#nid11GG
 * PeterYim: possibly having MikeBergman come talk about their UMBEL initiative - ref: http://ontolog.cim3.net/forum/ontolog-admin/2007-06/msg00002.html
 * Doug suggests we invite him to join us at an operations planning & review calls one of these days

5) Communications, logistics, & work protocols issues


 * update on the audio archives - all OntologySummit2007 session recordings are posted and podcasted.
 * backlogged podcasts on all key eveents are caught up now too! ... Again, thanks to ArnoldYim for taking on all the labor-intensive work over the last week or two.
 * ref: http://ontolog.cim3.net/forum/ontolog-admin/2007-06/msg00001.html

6) Follow-ups from previous calls


 * what else should we do about "more work on the Summit Framework and metrics"?
 * engaging AldoGangemi - ref LeoObrst's post


 * synthesis of forum discussions between Feb~Apr.2007 by PatHayes, ChrisMenzel and to be reviewed by JohnSowa - Peter: still need to follow-up on this


 * Ken: will make a post about CommunityCalendarImplementation and call for volunteers to work on it


 * Ken: reformatting the summit survey results in preparation to get artifacts populated into the framework
 * consider using google spreadsheet as the medium to work on the collaborative population exercise

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.


 * status of OntologTaxoThesaurus project work
 * next week's call (2007.06.21) will be devoted to revisiting this project
 * Ken will try to have the survey results up befoe the call, so it can be discussed


 * status of OntologyDrivenApplications compilation work.


 * status of the ONION project startup.
 * probably a good idea to get them to do:
 * (a) an update and progress status
 * (b) try populating their ONION ontology into the Summit 'Framework' (like the others artifacts we attempted on, during OntologySummit2007) - ref: OntologySummit2007_Population_Session


 * UBL liaison report
 * SICoP / ONTAC liaison report
 * NCOR liaison report


 * Planning team report

8) Key Issues discussion:


 * Event planning for the next quarter
 * see above


 * Revisiting "split up" of the discussion forum
 * the consensus of those at this call was to keep it as it is now
 * we could invite PeterBrown to start a dialog with more people to see if others concur

9) New project proposals.

10) Sponsorship and funding.

11) Other business.


 * SusanTurnbull's CEW#63 (2007.07.17) - Peter will try to put together the panel before end June
 * Ken planning to attend remotely
 * Doug may show up in person, but cannot confirm until early July

12) Next meeting date and adjourn


 * Our next meeting/call will be the Thu 2007.06.21, same time.
 * Key discussion will be on the OntologTaxoThesaurus project. Details will be at ConferenceCall_2007_06_21 closer to the time ... talk to you then!


 * this call session adjourned 11:42 am PDT

-- minutes captured in real time on this wiki by PeterYim / 2007.06.14-11:42am PDT Attendees are requested to review the notes above, help clean it up, and make amendments and edits to better reflect the proceedings of the session as they see fit (particularly where they are personally involved). =ppy