Ontolog Forum
[ontolog] Member Conference Call - Thu 2005-09-01
Conference Call Details
- Subject: [ontolog] member conference call Thu 2005-09-01
- 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 [[ToolsCollaboration|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_09_01
- Date: Thursday, Sep. 1, 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:
- Bob Smith
- Duane Nickull
- Peter P. Yim
- Pat Cassidy
- Rex Brooks
- Kurt Conrad
- Monica Martin
- David Whitten
- EMichaelMaximilien
- Expecting:
- Elisa Kendall
- ...(add your name here)...
- Regrets:
Agenda Ideas
Agenda & Proceedings
1) Welcome & confirmation of agenda
- Kurt Conrad took the chair and welcomed everyone.
2) Appointment of secretary to take minutes
- Peter P. Yim 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
- Scheduled Ontolog Events
- Thu Sep. 8, 2005 - Elisa Kendall - "The Model Driven Semantic Web - Emerging Technologies & Implementation Strategies" - (proposed by: Brand Niemann / PeterYim) - confirmed - see: ConferenceCall_2005_09_08
- Elisa has posted the ODM spec to the session page; solicits the community's review and comment. (also: nice to browse through that prior to the 9/8/05 session.)
- Fri Sep. 23, 2005 - Jon Bosak - on "Governance in the Development of an OASIS Standard for Business Documents" - Joint session with Susan's Collaborative Expedition Workshop #44 at NSF - see: ConferenceCall_2005_09_23 - confirmed (KurtConrad / Susan Turnbull / PeterYim)
- Ontolog members should note that this replaces our regular Thursday Sep. 22 meeting (i.e. no 9/22/05 call)
- Thu Oct. 13 2005 - Barry Smith - "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: Nicolas Rouquette - subject: Semantic Web Service Ontology Standard - see: ConferenceCall_2005_10_27
- the original 10/27 date conflicts with the NCOR Inaugural Meeting, we are rescheduling this to Thu Oct. 20, 2005
- EMichaelMaximilien will join Nicolas in organizing this event
- Peter will ping Nicolas to let him know; we should start working on this quickly
- Sep. 30, 2005 - Esther Dyson's "Personal Health Conference" in New York City
- Thu Sep. 8, 2005 - Elisa Kendall - "The Model Driven Semantic Web - Emerging Technologies & Implementation Strategies" - (proposed by: Brand Niemann / PeterYim) - confirmed - see: ConferenceCall_2005_09_08
- Invited Speaker Schedule for the next 3~6 months
- Candidate Nov. 2005 session(s) and beyond -
- John Sowa (suggested by BillMcCarthy)
- Doug Lenat on the Cyc project (suggested by PeterYim)
- Nicola Guarino on DOLCE, possibly also Bill Andersen or Chris Welty (suggested by Peter P. Yim & PatCassidy)
- LarryReeker of NIST (suggested by SusanTurnbull)
- SimonBuckinghamShum of the Compendium Institute ( ? ; ref. post from ScottLHolmes & PeterYim's reponse)
- Jim Spohrer 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 Brand Niemann - 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 - Bruce Bargmeyer or someone from his XMDR team
- Peter P. Yim / Elisa Kendall: Pat Hayes, DeborahMcGuinness
- To be brought up for discussion today:
- Chris Menzel: Bill Andersen
- Brand Niemann / Mark Musen / Peter P. Yim: Frank Hartel (NIH/NCI)
- Brand Niemann / Peter P. Yim: RoyRoebuck
- Duane Nickull: suggesting candidates from Microsoft - Phil Berstein & Sergey Melnik - ref: http://ontolog.cim3.net/forum//ontolog-forum/2005-08/msg00027.html
- Duane Nickull: EricMiller, Tim Berners-Lee of W3C
- 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
- Candidate Nov. 2005 session(s) and beyond -
- Scheduled Discussions for the next 2 months - candidates:
- Adam: need OWL & SWRL for OWL ontologies to really be useful
- Nicolas Rouquette -- 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.
- Peter P. Yim: "moving from data standards to data-model- and semantic-model-driven eBusiness standards"
- candidate panelists: BruceBarqmeyer, Mark Crawford, Elisa Kendall, Adam Pease, Mike Daconta, Jim Hendler, Steve Ray (moderator?)
- maybe a joint SICoP-Ontolog event, as part of another Collaborative Expedition Workshop?
- Duane Nickull: "Ontological and Semantic Implementation Panel" - some time in the future - Duane will start a page in preparation on it
- 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 queue management chat tool by Doug Davis of IBM - 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
- Duane suggested this queue management chat tool by Doug Davis of IBM - http://soaphub.homeip.net:8080/conf/room/ontolog
- Upcoming Events of interest
- Sep. 14, 2005 - 2nd DRM Public Forum (Washington DC) (Mark & Peter will be presenting their SMI/CIM3 Public Collaborative Ontology Development Server)
- Peter to post link to the session
- Sep. 12~16, 2005 - UN/CEFACT Forum - (Lyon, France) (Anders, Bill, Duane)
- Sep. 23, 12005 - Collaborative Expedition Workshop #44 (at NSF) - featuring the Jon Bosak joint-program with Ontolog; RexBrook et al. also presenting.
- OASIS ebXML registry-repository webinar - Sep. 15, 2005 - see: http://www.oasis-open.org/events/webinars/webinars.php
- 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
- Sep. 14, 2005 - 2nd DRM Public Forum (Washington DC) (Mark & Peter will be presenting their SMI/CIM3 Public Collaborative Ontology Development Server)
5) Communications, logistics, & work protocols issues
- The SIGMA Knowledge Engineering Environment (AdamPease's SUMO) server has been upgraded since last month. The link is now http://sigma3.cim3.net:4010/sigma/login.html (the previous http://sigma2.cim3.net:8080/sigma/login.html no longer works, please note.) - attn: all
- The Ontolog response to UC/CEFACT on CCTS v2.01 report should be corresponding updated (with the above link) and resubmitted. (ref: http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?WikiHomePage#nid24) - attn: Kurt Conrad, Duane Nickull et al.
- also, the CCT to SUMO-MILO-QOS-CCTONT mapping should also be updated from v0.4.1 to v0.6.1 - attn: Adam Pease, Peter P. Yim, Kurt Conrad et al.
- also need to update the Cct Representation page with the v0.6.1 spreadsheet
6) Follow-ups from previous calls
- post-mortem on the ConferenceCall_2005_08_25 Healthcare Informatics Landscape discussion session
- what worked well
- divergence (good spectrum of representation) of the panel
- great resource collected
- good follow-up responses and postings
- what could be improved
- ideas for the future
- Rex: don't mind doing a follow-up session, with the same people, but no presentations, so that we can devote the full time to discussion
- Kurt: we should do this sooner or later
- other remarks
- Rex: let's shoot for Thu Nov. 3, 2005 - Rex will post to the forum and seek people's availability
- what worked well
- possible meeting/call to follow-up with UDEF folks to review Ontolog's comments (suggested by MikeDaconta) [attn: DuaneNickull]
- Duane: I brought the Ontolog comments back to UDEF ... it was well received ... help them focus their value proposition
- Duane will try to organize a conference with the parties cconcerned
- Kurt: also help us hone our ability to effectively engage the standards group
- Peter to e-mail the Ontolog comments to Pat Cassidy or anyone else who would be interested
- 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.
- UBL liaison report
- SICoP liaison report
- Planning team - discussion report
8) project work session / discussion
9) New project proposals
10) Sponsorship and funding
11) Other business
- Ed Dodds / Bob Smith: Semantic Technology Conference in San Jose has a C4P due September 12 for March 2006
- Peter P. Yim: since this is more a "commercial" activity -- educating the public nonetheless, which Ontolog definitely supports -- encouraging Ontolog members to participate "on their own" (and using Ontolog material where they feel appropriate) would probably be more appropriate than billing this as an "Ontolog activity".
- Duane: call for paper - http://www.ift.ulaval.ca/%7Ekone/SWIG06/CSWWS2006-blog.htm
- Canadian Semantic Web Working Symposium - Jun. 6 2006 - Quebec City, Canada
- submission due Jan. 1, 2006
12) Next meeting date and adjourn
- regular call adjourned 11:41 am PDT
- next call will be on Thu 2005-09-08 starting at 10:30 am PDT
- that will be the Ontolog Invited Speaker session featuring Elisa Kendall on: "The Model Driven Semantic Web - Emerging Technologies & Implementation Strategies."
- See: ConferenceCall_2005_09_08
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minutes captured in real time on this wiki by Peter P. Yim / 2005.09.01-11:43am PDT