ConferenceCall 2005 10 06

= [ontolog] Member Conference Call - Thu 2005-10-06 =

Conference Call Details

 * Subject: [ontolog] member conference call Thu 2005-10-06


 * 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.
 * In particular, we will be devoting a portion of this call to work out a list of (a) speakers we plan to invite, and (b) technical discussion topics, for the next few months.
 * 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_2005_10_06
 * Date: Thursday, Oct. 6, 2005
 * Start Time: 10:30 AM PDT / 1:30 PM EDT / 6:30 PM 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:
 * PeterYim
 * KurtConrad
 * BobSmith
 * MonicaMartin
 * BillMcCarthy
 * DuaneNickull
 * BrandNiemann


 * Expecting:
 * SusanGolden
 * SteveRay
 * PeterBrown
 * ...(add your name here)...


 * Regrets:
 * MitchRinger
 * PatCassidy

Agenda & Proceedings
1) Welcome & confirmation of agenda


 * KurtConrad took the chair and welcomed everyone.
 * skipping all items and go directly to agenda item 8. That's the only thing we'll try to cover today.

2) Appointment of secretary to take minutes


 * PeterYim 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 Oct. 13 2005 - BarrySmith - "How to Do Things with Paper: The Ontology of Documents and the Technologies of Identification" - see: ConferenceCall_2005_10_13 - confirmed (BillMcCarthy)
 * Thu Oct. 20 2005 discussion - Moderator: NicolasRouquette - subject: Semantic Web Service Ontology Standard - see: ConferenceCall_2005_10_20/Prep
 * NicolasRouquette, JohnDomingue, MichaelGruninger and EMichaelMaximilien are working together to prepare for it


 * Invited Speaker Schedule for the next 3~6 months
 * Candidate Nov. 2005 session(s) and beyond -
 * DougLenat on the Cyc project (suggested by PeterYim)
 * NicolaGuarino on DOLCE, possibly also BillAndersen or ChrisWelty (suggested by PeterYim & PatCassidy)
 * SimonBuckinghamShum of the Compendium Institute ( ? ; ref. post from ScottLHolmes & PeterYim's reponse)
 * LarryReeker of NIST (suggested by SusanTurnbull)
 * John Sowa (suggested by BillMcCarthy)
 * JimSpohrer from IBM Almaden Services Research (further to the 2005.06.30 discussion)
 * 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
 * Rex suggestion: Professor Asuman Dogac from Middle East Technical University (Ankhara, Turkey) on Healthcare Ontologies in ebXML Web Services under their Artemis Project
 * Professor Dogac's work has also been previous recommended by BrandNiemann - see: http://colab.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ExpeditionWorkshop/TowardCoherenceInKnowledgeThroughAllThingsOntological_MakingSenseTogether_2004_12_09#nid6NZ
 * 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 today:
 * 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
 * Peter: since we have such a great (and huge) list of candidates now, maybe we should put a process together to find out who are among the top speakers the community wants to hear and talk to
 * 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:
 * Adam: need OWL & SWRL for OWL ontologies to really be useful
 * NicolasRouquette -- other topics lined up?
 * a panel with speaker representating: SUMO, OpenCyc Upper Ontology, DOLCE, ... (suggested by PeterYim)
 * possibly teaming up with SICoP and their CUO-WG; after independent sessions on Cyc and DOLCE
 * 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
 * we will not schedule a technical discussion in Sep. 2005
 * candidates for November, 2005
 * 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: BruceBargmeyer, MarkCrawford, ElisaKendall, AdamPease, MikeDaconta, JimHendler, SteveRay (moderator?)
 * maybe a joint SICoP-Ontolog event, as part of another Collaborative Expedition Workshop?
 * DuaneNickull: "Ontological and Semantic Implementation Panel" - some time in the future - Duane will start a page in preparation on it
 * 2005.09.01: EMichaelMaximilien: suggest we use some sort of IM tool (or other real time signaling) so that the moderator could know who has a question.
 * Duane suggested this tool by Doug Davis of IBM - (will post to the forum) - try http://soaphub.homeip.net:8080/conf/room/ontolog
 * Alll present agreed that this is really cool! - we'll start using it at the next discussion session
 * Rex asked for the availability of a next slot ...
 * Kurt: likely in November


 * Discussion on upcoming invitations to next week - to be covered under item 8 below


 * Upcoming Events of interest
 * National Center for Ontological Research (NCOR) Opening - Oct. 27, 2005 (Buffalo, NY) - ref: http://ontolog.cim3.net/forum//ontolog-forum/2005-08/msg00000.html
 * wants to know if call-in is supported

5) Communications, logistics, & work protocols issues

6) Follow-ups from previous calls


 * Bob and Nicolas will work on the ontological lessons learned in our exercise on RegularConferenceCall scheduling

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
 * UBL Liaison update
 * [CCT-Rep] status report


 * Status of Protege-KIF project work


 * status of NHIN-RFI & Health-Ont project work
 * representation and paper submission to FCW Government Health IT Conference - Nov. 17~18, 2005, Washington, D.C.
 * Rex: _____
 * Kurt: Bob and Kurt had discussed possibilities of engaging people (with affinity in ontology and semantic technologies) from Intel now that Craig Barrett (Intel CEO) is in the AHIC Commission.
 * solicitation to members of this community to suggest good candidates we should engage


 * UBL liaison report


 * SICoP liaison report
 * SICoP/ONTAC-WG organizing meeting on 2005.10.05


 * Planning team report

8) project work session / discussion - working out our invited speaker & discussion topics for the next few months


 * result of deliberation, see - http://ontolog.cim3.net/file/work/Ontolog-planning/ONTOLOG-candidate-speakers-topics_20051006d.xls
 * Candidate speakers to invite (for the next few months):
 * JimSpohrer, DougLenat, DeborahMcGuinness, SimonBuckinghamShum, AsumanDogac, JohnSowa, RoyRoebuck, NicolaGuarino
 * Targets: Nov. & Dec. 2005 - JimSpohrer, DougLenat (PeterYim & KurtConrad to follow-up); Feb. 2006 - AsumanDogac (MonicaMartin to follow-up)


 * candidate technical discussion topics (for the next few months)
 * Nov. 2005 - Take-II of Health Informatics Landscape - RexBrooks / BobSmith
 * Dec. 2005 - Application & Implementation - KurtConrad & DuaneNickull

9) New project proposals

10) Sponsorship and funding

11) Other business

12) Next meeting date and adjourn


 * regular call adjourned 11:30am PDT
 * next call will be on Thu 2005-10-13 starting at 10:30 am PDT - Professor Barry Smith will be speaking on "How to Do Things with Paper: The Ontology of Documents and the Technologies of Identification" - see: ConferenceCall_2005_10_13 ... see you there. RSVP!

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