ConferenceCall 2007 05 17

Conference Call Details

 * Date: Thursday, May 17, 2007 
 * Start Time: 10:30am PDT / 1:30pm EDT / 6:30pm BST / 17:30 GMT/UTC
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Attendees

 * Attended:
 * PeterYim
 * KenBaclawski
 * DougHolmes
 * KurtConrad


 * Expecting:

... (please insert your name above or RSVP by e-mailing  offline)


 * Regrets:

Agenda Ideas

 * Discussion: enhancements on the Ontolog Event Announcements
 * more follow-up actions from OntologySummit2007
 * Peter: how about a new mini-series on informal ontology - shared understanding, concept maps, dialog maps, visualization, ...

... (please insert your ideas below)

Agenda & Proceedings
1) Welcome & confirmation of agenda


 * DougHolmes took the chair and welcomed everyone.

2) Appointment of secretary to take minutes


 * KenBaclawski 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!
 * 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!


 * 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

5) Communications, logistics, & work protocols issues


 * Start and maintain a list of other lists where Ontolog meeting announcements should be routinely posted. Each entry should have a volunteer as liaison and the emphasis of the list to help select the announcements that are appropriate for cross posting. PeterYim will create the initial page, and KenBaclawski will populate the page and post a call for volunteers to the forum.
 * Protege
 * Semantic Web
 * Other W3C lists
 * KM (after it is restructured)

6) Follow-ups from previous calls


 * Ken committed (during the 2007.05.03 call) to come up with ideas on how to grab people's attention on upcoming events. We'll discuss his suggestions today (see item 8 below).

7) Current Project Status Report


 * Current Project Status Review:


 * Status CctRepresentation and UblOntology project work. No progress was reported.


 * Status of ProtegeKIF project work. No progress was reported.


 * status of NHIN-RFI & Health-Ont project work. No progress was reported.


 * status of OntologTaxoThesaurus project work
 * KenBaclawski, DeniseBedford and BobSmith would want to see some of the summit survey results incorporated into this project. KenBaclawski has joined the list, but no recent activity has occurred.


 * status of OntologyDrivenApplications compilation work. No progress was reported.


 * status of the ONION project startup. No progress was reported.


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


 * Planning team report - see item 8c below

8) Key Issues discussion:


 * Discussion: enhancements on the Ontolog Event Announcements
 * see: KenBaclawski's suggested layout of the announcements at: ConferenceCall_2007_05_17/EventAnnouncementSuggestions
 * Peter: to be discussed/considered -
 * mail vs. wiki announcement
 * The wiki format should use a calendar/event format.
 * Each event should be entered by the individual responsible for the event, but there should be a Calendar Master who ensures that the calendar is properly maintained.
 * labeled links vs. WikiWord's
 * This is only relevant for the wiki, not the mail announcement.
 * Thursdays vs. non-Thursdays
 * When an event in the Ontolog Thursday series is on a day other than a Thursday, it should be clearly labeled as an exception. The fact that there are occasional exceptions is not a good reason for changing the title.
 * html vs. plain text mail messages
 * The posting to the announcement list should use the html format for maximum impact. It is not intended to be an archival posting.
 * The posting to the forum list should use the plain text format so that it can be properly indexed by the archiving software.
 * operations & maintenance
 * The post that calls for volunteers http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2007_05_17#nid11BN will also seek comments on what calendar software is the best and seek a volunteer to be the Calendar Master.


 * Follow-up action from OntologySummit2007:
 * brought up on 2007.05.03:
 * Leo: will ping NicolaGuarino about doing a journal paper for "Applied Ontology"
 * Olivier: would be nice to do an academic paper ... anyone?
 * Ken: good idea to do a write-up and push it to wikipedia
 * ... more:
 * updating the diagram to make it jive with the communique better
 * more work into the framework and associated metrics
 * a retrospect on the OntologySummit2007 group process and dynamics - maybe at SusanTurnbull's CEW#63 on 2007.07.17
 * This follow-up action item should be the main topic for an Ontolog Thursday meeting. The meeting has tentatively been set to occur on 2007.06.07.  This should help attract a larger audience.

9) New project proposals. Postponed to 2007.05.24


 * a call is out from DuaneNickull for collaboration between this community and the SOA community in there "Reference Architecture" effort, which we hope, will be ontology enabled. See: http://ontolog.cim3.net/forum/ontolog-forum/2007-05/msg00010.html
 * please respond to the above thread, or e-mail DuaneNickull and PeterYim if you are interested.


 * a collaborative effort to collaboratively develop a "common basis"? - ref: http://ontolog.cim3.net/forum/ontolog-forum/2007-05/msg00114.html


 * Peter: how about a new mini-series on informal ontology - shared understanding, concept maps, dialog maps, visualization, ...


 * possibilities of a session on collaborative ontology development
 * some recent progress at Stanford / Protege can be interesting

10) Sponsorship and funding. Postponed to 2007.05.24

11) Other business. Postponed to 2007.05.24

12) Next meeting date and adjourn


 * Our next meeting/call will be the Thu 2007.05.24, same time. Details will be at ConferenceCall_2007_05_24 closer to the time ... talk to you then!


 * this call session adjourned 11:31 am PDT

-- minutes captured in real time on this wiki by KenBaclawski / 2007.05.17-12:02 pm 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