ConferenceCall 2006 12 07

= [ontolog] Member Conference Call - Thu 2006-12-07 =

Conference Call Details

 * Subject: [ontolog] member conference call Thu 2006-12-07


 * Date: Thursday, December 7, 2006
 * Start Time: 10:30am PST / 1:30pm EST / 7:30pm CET / 18:30 GMT/UTC
 * ref: World Clock
 * Expected Call Duration: 1.0 hour
 * Dial-in Number:
 * from a telephone (US): +1-712-432-4990 (Iowa, USA)
 * from a phone (Europe): 0870-119-1313 (UK) or 01805 00 7620 (Germany)
 * callers from other countries please dial into either one of the US or European numbers
 * Conference ID: "5823120#"
 * Direct call-in from on Skype: +990008275823120


 * Wiki page for this call (i.e. this page) is at: http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2006_12_07

Attendees

 * Attended:
 * KurtConrad
 * PeterYim
 * DougHolmes
 * AtillaElci


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


 * Regrets:
 * SteveRay
 * MatthewWest

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

 * Peter / Matthew / Steve: event calendar planning for Q1/Q2-2007
 * Steve / Leo / Peter: ideas for our next NIST-Ontolog joint event during the NIST Interoperability Week, April 2007
 * Kurt: continuation of community planning
 * a retrospect on the year 2006 for Ontolog, and discussion on what else would be interesting to do in 2007
 * new members can get familiar with our virtual meeting settings
 * (please add yours 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


 * Welcome new Ontolog members - new [ontolog-forum] members (since 2006.10.05):
 * UdaykumarMarichamy (IBM India, Bangalore, India)
 * GuidoGeerts (University of Delaware, USA)
 * YoelRaban (Tel Aviv University, Israel)
 * StefanoBorgo (Laboratory for Applied Ontology, ISTC-CNR, Trento, Italy)
 * DarinStewart (Oregon Health & Science University, USA)
 * Re-engaging: RobertGarigue (now with Bell Canada)

4) Upcoming meeting & event schedule (near future)


 * Scheduled Ontolog Events:
 * Ontolog invited Speaker Presentation - ChristopherChute - Thursday ConferenceCall_2006_12_14
 * [onion] First ONION project review conference call - Monday OnionProjectConferenceCall_2006_12_18
 * NIST-Ontolog-NCOR: 2nd OntologyMeasurementEvaluation mini-series session - BarrySmith - Thursday ConferenceCall_2006_12_21
 * 3rd Ontolog DatabaseAndOntology mini-series Session - Invited Speaker: ElisaKendall - Thursday ConferenceCall_2007_01_04   - awaiting title and abstract
 * Ontolog Scheduled Discussion - Ontology Applications in Emergency Response - Co-organizers: RexBrooks &amp; BobSmith - Thursday ConferenceCall_2007_01_25   - awaiting list of panelists, abstracts, and key issues to be addressed


 * Other upcoming events of interest - see: RelevantEventsOfInterest2006
 * In particular, check out December 12, 2006, Tuesday - Collaborative Expedition Workshop #56, at NSF (Arlington, Virginia, USA; with remote attendance support) - "Towards A Transparent Acquisiton Marketplace for Increased Mission Agility with Open Technology Development" - (Free) - see: http://colab.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ExpeditionWorkshop/TowardsTransparentAcquisitonMarketplace_OpenTechnologyDevelopment_12_12_06

5) Communications, logistics, & work protocols issues


 * new members can get familiar with our virtual meeting settings - item skipped (no new member was at the call)

6) Follow-ups from previous calls


 * postmortem on last week's panel discussion -
 * great choice of speakers
 * coming in from a different perspective was great ... even the term "Ontology" meant something else (although it would have helped if everyone had agreed to the meaning of, at least, this one term!)
 * Atilla: maybe less speakers, more discussion ... appreciations to the organizers of this and other Ontolog events.
 * Kurt: need to try to engage participants into useful and active discussion
 * Peter: would love to see loose-ends being tied down slightly earlier (than the last minute)

7) Current Project Status Report - item skipped


 * Status CctRepresentation and UblOntology project work


 * Status of ProtegeKIF project work


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


 * status of OntologTaxoThesaurus project work


 * status of the ONION project startup
 * first meeting coming up - OnionProjectConferenceCall_2006_12_18


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


 * Planning team report

8) This week's discussion:


 * event calendar planning for Q1/Q2-2007
 * Steve / Leo / Peter: ideas for our next NIST-Ontolog joint event during the NIST Interoperability Week, April 2007
 * ref: http://ontolog.cim3.net/forum/ontolog-forum/2006-12/msg00006.html
 * signing up 'conveners' ... will start a mailing l ist and do a kick-off conference call on this soon
 * Kurt: continuation of community planning
 * Kurt: think of doing face-to-face as a member get together by piggy-begging on other events, e.g. we've be doing this with the Protege conference, how about the Semantic Technology conference.
 * Kurt will champion this for the upcoming Semantic Technology conference (May 20~24, 2007, San Jose, CA, USA)
 * a retrospect on the year 2006 for Ontolog, and discussion on what else would be interesting to do in 2007
 * DougHolmes suggested that we (Ontolog) should do something with W3C, and he will put that on the table at the W3C meetings that he will go to.
 * Doug / Peter / Atilla / Kurt: recognizing that one strength of Ontolog is that we have a free and open soapbox for the various groups in the community that tends to talk pass pne another:
 * formal ontologists
 * semantic web folks
 * taxonomists
 * the folksonomy / web2.0 people
 * data modeling / applications development / database folks
 * along with standards developers, library scientists and knowledge managers

9) New project proposals - item skipped

10) Sponsorship and funding - item skipped

11) Other business - item skipped

12) Next meeting date and adjourn


 * Peter: how about taking a holiday break, and cancel our conference call for Thu 2006.12.28?
 * group cosensus: Yes ... NO CALL on 12/28 - Happy Holidays, everyone!


 * Our next meeting/call will be at Thu 2006.12.14, with ChristopherChute as our invited speaker - refer to details at: ConferenceCall_2006_12_14 ... talk to you then!


 * call adjourned 11:26am PST

-- minutes captured in real time on this wiki by PeterYim / 2006.12.07-11:35am PST 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