ConferenceCall 2006 01 05

= [ontolog] Member Conference Call - Thu 2006-01-05 =

Conference Call Details

 * Subject: [ontolog] member conference call Thu 2006-01-05


 * 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_01_05
 * Date: Thursday, Jan. 5, 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: 1-702-851-3330 (Las Vegas, Nevada)
 * Participant Access Code: "686564#"

Attendees

 * Attended:
 * BobSmith


 * Expecting:
 * KurtConrad (chair)
 * SteveRay
 * EMichaelMaximilien
 * ...(add your name here)...''


 * Regrets:
 * PeterYim

Agenda Ideas

 * ...(add suggested items here)...

Agenda & Proceedings
Call cancelled due to lack of quorum. All following agenda items postponed.

1) Welcome & confirmation of agenda


 * _____ took the chair and welcomed everyone.

2) Appointment of secretary to take minutes


 * _____ 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
 * Thu Jan. 12, 2006 - LeoObrst - "What is an ontology? - A Briefing on the Range of Semantic Models" - confirmed (PeterYim)
 * Thu Feb. 2, 2006 - NicolaGuarino - "DOLCE" (to-be-finalized) - confirmed (LeoObrst)
 * Thu Feb. 9, 2006 - AsumanDogac - "Exploiting ebXML Registry Semantics in the eHealth Domain" - confirmed (MonicaMartin)
 * Thu Mar. 16, 2006 - UpperOntologySummit - Moderator: SteveRay - organizing committee formed and working on it


 * 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 will lead the COSMO development subgroup in the newly formed SICoP / ONTAC-WG
 * 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


 * Scheduled Discussions for the next 2 months - 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?
 * Other candidates:
 * Rex: propose "Emergency Response"
 * 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


 * Upcoming Events of interest
 * SusanTurnbull's CEW#47 - Tue 2006.01.24 at NSF (Ballston, VA) & via Remote Access - see: ColabWiki:ExpeditionWorkshop/AdvancingCredibleCommitments_AgileSensing_BootstrappingServiceOrientedArchitecture_2006_01_24

5) Communications, logistics, & work protocols issues

6) Follow-ups from previous calls


 * Reveiw of the Thu 2005.12.15 "Ontolgy Applications and Implementations" session
 * what was good
 * what needs improvement
 * how would we do it differently next time
 * other inputs


 * session with UN/CEFACT on CCTS 3.0 recommendations
 * they are interested to have us present at their Conference on Mar. 13~17, 2006 in Vancouver, Canada (partial conflict with the UpperOntologySummit of Thu 2006.03.16)
 * would be wonderful if we can do a "What is an Ontology?" like what Leo is going to present on Jan. 12, 2006
 * we should invite them [attn: Kurt]
 * we should invite them [attn: Kurt]


 * Presenting at the OASIS Symposium 2006 (9-12 May 2006, San Francisco, CA) - Proposal submission deadline: 20 December 2005
 * Duane and Rex are submitting, requesting that they cover our (Ontolog) work as a sidebar
 * anyone from here going to present?


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

7) Current Project Status Report


 * 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) project work session / discussion -

9) New project proposals

10) Sponsorship and funding

11) Other business

12) Next meeting date and adjourn


 * regular call adjourned _____ am PST
 * next call will be on Thu 2006-01-12 starting at 10:30 am PST - LeoObrst of MITRE will be speaking on "What is an ontology? - A Briefing on the Range of Semantic Models" - see: ConferenceCall_2006_01_12 ... see you there. RSVP!

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