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[ontolog] Member Conference Call - Thu 2006-01-05

Conference Call Details

  • Subject: [ontolog] member conference call Thu 2006-01-05
  • 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_2006_01_05
  • Date: Thursday, Jan. 5, 2006
  • Start Time: 10:30 AM PST / 1:30 PM EST / 18:30 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

Agenda Ideas

  • ...(add suggested items here)...

Agenda & Proceedings

Call cancelled due to lack of quorum. All following agenda items postponed.

1) Welcome & confirmation of agenda

  • _____ took the chair and welcomed everyone.

2) Appointment of secretary to take minutes

  • _____ volunteered

3) Roll-call of participants

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 Jan. 12, 2006 - Leo Obrst - "What is an ontology? - A Briefing on the Range of Semantic Models" - confirmed (PeterYim)
    • Thu Feb. 2, 2006 - Nicola Guarino - "DOLCE" (to-be-finalized) - confirmed (LeoObrst)
    • Thu Feb. 9, 2006 - Asuman Dogac - "Exploiting ebXML Registry Semantics in the eHealth Domain" - confirmed (MonicaMartin)
    • Thu Mar. 16, 2006 - UpperOntologySummit - Moderator: Steve Ray - organizing committee formed and working on it
  • Scheduled Discussions for the next 2 months - candidates:
    • 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
    • Adam: need OWL & SWRL for OWL ontologies to really be useful
    • Nicolas Rouquette -- other topics lined up?
    • Other candidates:
      • 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"
      • more session for the "Ontolgy Applications and Implementations" series

5) Communications, logistics, & work protocols issues

6) Follow-ups from previous calls

  • Reveiw of the Thu 2005.12.15 "Ontolgy Applications and Implementations" session
    • what was good
    • what needs improvement
    • how would we do it differently next time
    • other inputs
  • session with UN/CEFACT on CCTS 3.0 recommendations
      • they are interested to have us present at their Conference on Mar. 13~17, 2006 in Vancouver, Canada (partial conflict with the UpperOntologySummit of Thu 2006.03.16)
      • would be wonderful if we can do a "What is an Ontology?" like what Leo is going to present on Jan. 12, 2006
        • we should invite them [attn: Kurt]
  • Presenting at the OASIS Symposium 2006 (9-12 May 2006, San Francisco, CA) - Proposal submission deadline: 20 December 2005
    • Duane and Rex are submitting, requesting that they cover our (Ontolog) work as a sidebar
    • anyone from here going to present?
  • Bob and Nicolas will work on the ontological lessons learned in our exercise on RegularConferenceCall scheduling -- (Bob / Nicolas - please bring closure to this item)

7) Current Project Status Report

  • Status of Protege-KIF project work
  • status of NHIN-RFI & Health-Ont project work
  • UBL liaison report
  • SICoP liaison report
  • NCOR relationship - pending
  • Planning team report

8) project work session / discussion -

9) New project proposals

10) Sponsorship and funding

11) Other business

12) Next meeting date and adjourn

  • regular call adjourned _____ am PST
  • next call will be on Thu 2006-01-12 starting at 10:30 am PST - Leo Obrst of MITRE will be speaking on "What is an ontology? - A Briefing on the Range of Semantic Models" - see: ConferenceCall_2006_01_12 ... see you there. RSVP!

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