ConferenceCall 2007 05 31

Conference Call Details

 * Date: Thursday, May 31, 2007 
 * Start Time: 10:30am PDT / 1:30pm EDT / 6:30pm BST / 17:30 GMT/UTC
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Attendees

 * Attended:
 * KenBaclawski
 * FrankMcCabe
 * PeterYim
 * KurtConrad
 * DougHolmes
 * DuaneNickull


 * Expecting:

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


 * Regrets:
 * PeterBrown

Agenda Ideas

 * deferred items (mainly "new projects") from the 2007.05.17 call
 * ref: http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2007_05_31#nid11GC
 * see item 8 below

... (please insert your ideas below)

Agenda & 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!
 * 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!   (this is still tentative)


 * Other upcoming events of interest - see: RelevantEventsOfInterest2007


 * on deck are - more talk in the DatabaseAndOntology series, BillAndersen, MarkMusen, DeborahMcGuinness, JohnBateman, TimRedmond / TaniaTudorache, ... etc. etc.
 * KenBaclawski: also on Uncertainty & Decision Support, possibility to grow that into a mini-series
 * Jeanne Holm and possibility of other NASA/JPL prespectives
 * KenBaclawski: suggestions for another session featuring new developments in triples- and quads- stores; Ken will ping MatthewWest on it.

5) Communications, logistics, & work protocols issues


 * Calendar - new page now set up for Ken to champion the work - let's do it at: CommunityCalendarImplementation

6) Follow-ups from previous calls

7) Current Project Status Report


 * Current Project Status Review:


 * Status CctRepresentation and UblOntology project work - no update


 * Status of ProtegeKIF project work - no update


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


 * 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.
 * Ken just posted something to the [ontologizing] list ... to see if we can get the work in motion again soon


 * status of OntologyDrivenApplications compilation work - no update


 * status of the ONION project startup - no update


 * UBL liaison report - no update
 * SICoP / ONTAC liaison report - no update
 * NCOR liaison report - no update


 * Planning team report - see item 8c below

8) Key Issues discussion:


 * an effort to collaboratively develop a "common basis"? - ref: http://ontolog.cim3.net/forum/ontolog-forum/2007-05/msg00114.html
 * a natural followup from the UpperOntologySummit
 * potential leadership could come from JohnSowa, PatCassidy, ...
 * Doug: let's ping SteveRay to see if NIST can take on the leadership to implement this
 * Ken: could collaborate with the OBO Foundary work, which is similar
 * Duane: support of registry/repository software - will find out more in a meeting tomorrow
 * Peter: this would complement well with the CIM3 offer on hardware/infrastructure
 * Duane: we could set up a registry/repository, then define roles and call for volunteers ...
 * Peter & Duane will need to have a discussion (offline initially) to clarify IPR issues
 * All: We should try to report this back to this [ontolog-forum] list, and try to get enough interest to stage a special session for discussing this, to institutionalize this as a "project", and taking this forward


 * Duane / Ken: possibility of putting some AJAX software into the wiki
 * Duane: e.g. auto-page updates
 * Duane: we could also consider the Adobe FLEX, now that it has been open-sourced
 * Ken: one of my students is working on something similar
 * Peter, Ken, Duane, Karlsruhe-folks & team members should get together in a collaboration on this
 * consider calling up another special session


 * Peter: how about a new mini-series on informal ontology - shared understanding, concept maps, dialog maps, visualization, knowledge management, ...
 * Peter: thinking of collaborating with NASA/JPL on this


 * possibilities of a session on collaborative ontology development
 * some recent progress at Stanford / Protege can be interesting
 * this could be one or two sessions ... probably in August 2007 - Peter will be championing this

9) New project proposals.


 * 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.
 * Duane: so far, this is not a formal request from OASIS yet, but would like to see if Ontolog members would like to participate / team-up on this:
 * solicitation for comments will probably come out in Sep.2007
 * hope to see Ontolog provide a collective "review and comment" to the work
 * Core team interested in this work: PatHayes, DougHolmes, KenBaclawski, PeterYim, FrankMcCabe, DuaneNickull, ... LisaColvin, KenLaskey (added: 2007.06.24) ... let's formally put this together as an "Ontolog project"

10) Sponsorship and funding.


 * no discussion

11) Other business.


 * no discussion

12) Next meeting date and adjourn


 * Our next meeting/call will be the Thu 2007.06.07, same time, mainly on OntologySummit2007 follow-up action review. Details will be at ConferenceCall_2007_06_07 ... talk to you then!


 * this call session adjourned 12:02 pm PDT

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