ConferenceCall 2005 04 14

= [ontolog] Member Conference Call - Thu 2005-04-14 =

Conference Call Details

 * Subject: [ontolog] member conference call Thu 2005-04-14


 * 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.
 * 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_04_14
 * Date: Thursday, Apr. 14, 2005
 * Start Time: 10:30 AM PDT / 1:30 PM EDT 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:
 * DuaneNickull
 * PeterYim
 * AdamPease
 * KurtConrad
 * BobSmith
 * AndersTell
 * NicolasRouquette
 * DavidWhitten
 * MonicaMartin


 * Expecting:


 * Regrets:
 * PaulKoch
 * LisaSeaburg
 * RayFergerson
 * JamesDouma (meeting conflict)
 * LeoObrst
 * BillMcCarthy

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

4) Upcoming meeting & event schedule (near future)


 * Nominal meeting types (on a monthly basis):
 * member regular meeting
 * invited speaker session
 * scheduled discussion
 * project review
 * workshop / work session
 * planning


 * Invited Speaker Schedule for the next 3~6 months
 * for Apr. 2005 - MichaelUschold from Boeing - Thu 2005-04-21 - confirmed (-ppy) - see: ConferenceCall_2005_04_21
 * for May. 2005 - MonicaMartin from Sun - Thu 2005-05-12 - confirmed
 * for Jun. 2005 - DavidWhitten & ChrisRichardson from WorldVistA - Thu 2005-06-16 - confirmed (-ppy)
 * for Jul. 2005 - AndersTell of Business Collaboration Toolsmiths, AB (Sweden) - suggested by DuaneNickull - confirmed date: Thu 2005.07.14
 * future candidates speakers:
 * LarryReeker of NIST (suggested by SusanTurnbull)
 * SimonBuckinghamShum of the Compendium Institute ( ? ; ref. post from ScottLHolmes & PeterYim's reponse)
 * DougLenat on the Cyc project (suggested by PeterYim)
 * NicolaGuarino on DOLCE, possibly also BillAnderson or ChrisWelty (suggested by PeterYim & PatCassidy)
 * new suggestions:
 * 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
 * Monica: suggest inviting someone from the [regrep] group
 * Mark Greaves of DARPA - suggested by NancyFaget and PeterYim - confirmed intent; date to be fixed
 * JonBosak of Sun on OASIS Process - suggested (KurtConrad) at our 2005.03.03 Planning Session
 * possibility of this rolling into a joint SICoP or CEW-multiple CoP Best Practice event - Jun.2005? (SusanTurnbull)
 * In view of the great line-up of wonderful speakers, and the strong feedback that our speaker sessions (and the recordings) have really been useful to the community, we could consider doing speaking sessions twice a month - one on the regular Thursdays, and the other on a Monday, Tuesday or Wednesday (outside of the regilar call day) so that people (speaker or audience) who has a standing conflict on Thursdays could be accomodated too. (--suggested by KurtConrad)


 * Scheduled Discussions for the next 2 months
 * David: maybe we should designate a moderator, and then coordinate the event from there, in a fashion similar to speaker events.
 * see: OntologDiscussion
 * more work/discussion on OWL
 * Adam: need OWL & SWRL for OWL ontologies to really be useful
 * NicolasRouquette has a couple of topics lined up too ... we'll talk about those when he is at the call.
 * Nicolas will moderate - Date: Thu 2005.04.28 - Nicolas will post something and solicit responses


 * Upcoming Events of interest
 * April 7-8, 2005 - Semantic Web Applications for National Security
 * Stanford Clinical Informatics seminar series; events on 4/8; 4/15; (4/22 rescheduled) & 4/29.2005 - see: http://clinicalinformatics.stanford.edu/scci_seminars/2004-05.html
 * In particular, MarkMusen will be speaking on Fri 2005.05.27 (was 2005.04.22 - note change of date) on "The Role of Ontologies in the Electronic Health Record." - see: http://clinicalinformatics.stanford.edu/scci_seminars/2004-05.html
 * Mon 2005-04-25 CCTONT work session at Stanford - see: CctRepresentation/WorkSession_2005_04_25_CCT
 * Mon~Wed 2005-04-25~27 - Transforming Healthcare with Information (w/ Information Liquidity) - see: http://www.almaden.ibm.com/institute/agenda.shtml - BobSmith will be there, and will report to the group afterwards

5) Communications, logistics, & work protocols issues


 * none

6) Follow-ups from previous calls


 * none

7) Current Project Status Report


 * Status CCT-Representation and UBL-Ontology project work
 * work session coming up (at Stanford) on Mon 2005.04.25 - see: http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?CctRepresentation/WorkSession_2005_04_25_CCT (details coming soon)
 * expected onsite: RayFergerson, OlivierDameron, PeterYim, KurtConrad, ... please add your name here if you plan to join
 * expected to call in: PatCassidy, AdamPease (maybe, will think about it), ... please add your name here if you plan to join


 * Status of Protege-KIF project work
 * same as above - work session at Stanford with the Protege team, Mon 2005.04.25


 * status of NHIN-RFI & Health-Ont project work
 * ref Brand's input, 35 (out of the 500) responses now available online, which Bob has zipped up
 * availability may be under the 'freedom of information act'
 * ontolog is tracking the opportunities for now
 * Bob has a potential vendor


 * UBL liaison report
 * no report


 * SICoP liaison report
 * no report


 * status report from Planning team
 * planning team conference call today (right after this call)
 * LeoObrst cannot join today, but possibly ok on 2005.04.28 same time.
 * see proceedings of today's session captured at: http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?OntologPlanning_2005#nidC3A

8) project work session / discussion


 * not today

9) New project proposals


 * Anders - UN/CEFACT Modeling Methodology (UMM) - has UML now, OWL is on the list
 * sugested that the 4/25 work session at Stanford would be of interest
 * also suggested that Ontolog's case at the EIDX panel would be of interest - see: http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2004_12_01#nid4AH
 * Nicolas request some pointers to UMM related resources.
 * Anders: see - Current version of UMM http://www.unece.org/cefact/umm/umm_index.htm

10) Sponsorship and funding


 * working with BrandNiemann and MikeDaconta to see if we can get some sponsorship for the production level CCT-Representation / UBL-Ontology work.

11) Other business

12) Next meeting date and adjourn


 * call adjourned 11:30am PST
 * next call will be on Thu 2005.04.21 starting at 10:30am PST
 * MichaelUschold will be presenting next week - see: http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2005_04_21

-- minutes captured in real time on this wiki by PeterYim ppy / 2005.04.14 11:31am PST