ConferenceCall 2006 05 25

= [ontolog] Member Conference Call - Thu 2006-05-25 =

Conference Call Details

 * Subject: [ontolog] member conference call Thu 2006-05-25


 * Date: Thursday, May 25, 2006
 * Start Time: 10:30 AM PDT / 1:30 PM EDT / 17:30 UTC World Clock
 * Expected Call Duration: 1 ~ 1.5 hour
 * Dial-in Number: 1-641-696-6600 (Iowa)
 * Participant Access Code: "686564#"


 * Agenda Comments:
 * 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_05_25

Attendees

 * Attended:
 * BobSmith (session chair)
 * RexBrooks
 * PeterYim
 * DeniseBedford
 * SteveRay
 * KurtConrad
 * PatHeinig


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


 * Regrets:
 * SteveIhnen
 * MatthewWest

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

 * BobSmith: discussions on the OntologTaxoThesaurus project to take it forward
 * PeterYim / EMichaelMaximilien: need to finalize on the "Ontologizing Ontolog Discussion Session-2" date
 * ...(add suggested items here)...

Agenda & Proceedings
1) Welcome & confirmation of agenda


 * BobSmith took the chair and welcomed everyone.

2) Appointment of secretary to take minutes


 * PeterYim volunteered

3) Roll-call of participants


 * see above

4) Upcoming meeting & event schedule (near future)


 * PeterYim / EMichaelMaximilien: need to finalize on the "Ontologizing Ontolog Discussion Session-2" date
 * EMichaelMaximilien: will move the date to Jul 6, 2006
 * Max will provide the title and abstract by Wed 5/31/06 ... that will also provide Max & Conor the grounding to invite people


 * Instead, on June 15, 2006, the OntologTaxoThesaurus team will put together a project work session ... soliciting domain experts to participate


 * Scheduled Ontolog Events:
 * Continuation of our "Ontologizing the Ontolog Body of Knowledge" series of talks & discussions - http://ontolog.cim3.net/forum//ontolog-forum/2006-05/msg00019.html
 * Thu Jun. 1, 2006 - MatthewWest - on "ISO 18876 - integration of industrial data for exchange access and sharing (IIDEAS)" - ref: http://ontolog.cim3.net/forum//ontolog-forum/2006-04/msg00092.html & ConferenceCall_2006_06_01
 * Thu 2006.06.15 - "Ontologizing the Ontolog Body of Knowledge" Discussion Session-2 - Moderators (organizers): EMichaelMaximilien & ConorShankey
 * Thu 2006.06.29 - TimRedmond - "Protege Architecture and API" (a session for applications developers)
 * Thu 2006.07.13 - PatCassidy - "From Controlled Vocabulary to Standard Ontologies" (from the perspective of a formal ontologist)
 * Thu 2006.07.23 - Ontolog F2F Meeting and Workshop colocated with the 9th Protege International Conference (Stanford, CA) - Organizers: BobSmith & KurtConrad
 * we'll hopefully be arranging more functions during this community F2F gathering and the almost weeklong Conference
 * organizers now changed to BobSmith, KurtConrad & RexBrooks
 * Thu 2006.08.10 - SOA Panel Discussion (covering SOA-RM & SOA-RA) - Moderators (organizers): DuaneNickull & RexBrooks
 * Thu 2006.08.31 - Ontology Applications in Emergency Response Panel Discussion - Moderators (organizers): RexBrooks & BobSmith


 * Upcoming Events of interest

5) Communications, logistics, & work protocols issues - no discussion

6) Follow-ups from previous calls


 * Engaging UN/CEFACT
 * Kurt: suggest we schedule a UN/CEFACT-ONTOLOG joint teleconference (hopefully on a Thursday) so that we can do a focused discussion
 * will need to follow-up with BillMcCarthy & AndersTell
 * Rex: there will be a joint OASIS-ITU conference in Oct. 2006 (UN/CEFACT & ebXML is related somehow)


 * Should we have a joint presence at OIS2006? - OIS2006: 1st International Workshop on Ontologizing Industrial Standards
 * this is exactly what we said we'll strive to do on our charter! - ref: http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?WikiHomePage#nidB
 * November 6-9, 2006 - Tucson, Arizona, USA - colocated with the 25th International Conference on Conceptual Modeling (ER2006)
 * see: http://ontolog.cim3.net/forum//ontolog-forum/2006-03/msg00020.html & http://events.deri.at/ois2006/
 * EMichaelMaximilien is in contact with some of these people ... he can help relay questions if we have any
 * conflict with 5th International Semantic Web Conference (same week, but in Athens, Georgia)
 * abstract deadline is May 1, 2006 (so we still have some time to get organized if we want to really do something)
 * this is definitely relevant to us ... let's think things over and come back for more discussion at the next call

7) Current Project Status Report


 * Status CctRepresentation and UblOntology project work


 * Status of ProtegeKIF project work


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


 * status of OntologTaxoThesaurus project work - see discussion under item 8


 * UBL liaison report
 * SICoP / ONTAC liaison report
 * NCOR relationship - pending
 * Planning team report

8) Key Issues discussion:


 * OntologWorkshop_July_2006 organizing committee report & discussion
 * Ontolog Face to Face Workshop see http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?OntologWorkshop_July_2006
 * Key Dates and Expectations, Contingencies (May 29th deadline extensions?)
 * Recruiting efforts
 * Program Committee-Social Committee Logistics and Wiki Support
 * Etc.
 * Denise will probably be able to join us at the July 23 face-to-face
 * Bob will arrange to send her an 'invitation'
 * Steve will consider having people from NIST come join us at the F2F (Rex suggests KC Morris, if possible)
 * Peter: will try to invite SRI people over, since they are going through an exercise rather similar to ours (which culminates in the 7/23 F2F)
 * had some discussion on cadidate participants to the 2F
 * may need to extend the 6/29 CFP
 * need to recruit a champion to work with Kurt and Rex for scheduling some social activities and otehr meetings
 * candidates: Stanford SMI, KSL; SRI-AI-Lab, EPRI, IBM-Almaden Research Center, PARC; company with DougEngelbart;


 * OntologTaxoThesaurus project discussion
 * BobSmith: OntologTaxoThesaurus Progress and Challenges
 * Denise's earlier questions about Scope, Methods, Audience;
 * Progress report: Inventory, Sketch 1 of current "Wiki Taxonomy", Concept Abstraction, "Deliverables"
 * see: http://ontolog.cim3.net/file/work/OntologizingOntolog/TaxoThesaurus/Taxo_Thesaurus_B--BobSmith_20060525.gif
 * Thesaurus Features needed for target audience(s)?
 * also DeniseBedford deliverables - see: http://ontolog.cim3.net/file/work/OntologizingOntolog/TaxoThesaurus/
 * inventoried about 65,000 items -- http://ontolog.cim3.net/file/work/OntologizingOntolog/TaxoThesaurus/ontolog-cwe-inventory-map_dbedford_20060514a.xls
 * raw concepts, with concept extraction tools) --
 * http://ontolog.cim3.net/file/work/OntologizingOntolog/TaxoThesaurus/Ontology_Concepts_Document_Subset--DeniseBedford_20060525.txt &
 * http://ontolog.cim3.net/file/work/OntologizingOntolog/TaxoThesaurus/Ontolog_PowerPoint_Concept_Subset--DeniseBedford_20060525.txt
 * have yet to do this for the html files
 * will then categorize
 * and identify topics with domain experts
 * can then send them through a clustering tool
 * what shall/can we do with this?
 * (a) gets us better searchable content, and
 * (b) strucure the content in a topical manner
 * Round-robin discussion of "What would you like to have...??"
 * Next Conf Call?
 * Etc. ... Other comments:
 * Rex: I think this captures a solid footing in a ground-up approach that gives us a sound viewpoint for developing a top down structure

9) New project proposals

10) Sponsorship and funding

11) Other business

12) Next meeting date and adjourn


 * Our next meeting/call will be next Thu 2006.06.01 - with invited speaker MatthewWest - see: ConferenceCall_2006_06_01
 * this call adjourned 11:43 am PDT

-- minutes captured in real time on this wiki by PeterYim / 2006.05.25-11:44am PDT