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[ontolog] Member Conference Call - Thu 2007-04-19

Conference Call Details

  • Date: Thursday, April 19, 2007
  • Start Time: 10:30am PDT / 1:30pm EDT / 17:30 GMT/UTC
  • Expected Call Duration: ~1.0 hours
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  • Please note that proceedings of this session is expected to be open content to our community membership and the public at-large under our prevailing open IPR policy.

Attendees

  • Expecting:
    • ... to register for participation, please add your name (plus your affiliation, if you aren't already a member of the community) above, or e-mail <peter.yim@cim3.com> so that we can reserve enough resources to support everyone's participation. ...

Agenda Ideas

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Agenda & Proceedings

1) Welcome & confirmation of agenda

  • Steve Ray took the chair and welcomed everyone.

2) Appointment of secretary to take minutes

3) Roll-call of participants

  • Welcome new Ontolog community members - especially those who have just joined the community.

4) Upcoming meeting & event schedule (near future)

  • in view of the Ontology Summit 2007 face-to-face sessions, there will be no 'regular' weekly Ontolog call on Thuraday 26-April-2007

5) Communications, logistics, & work protocols issues - item to be skipped

6) Follow-ups from previous calls - item to be skipped

7) Current Project Status Report - item to be skipped

  • Status CctRepresentation and UblOntology project work
  • status of NHIN-RFI & Health-Ont project work
  • status of the ONION project startup
  • UBL liaison report
    • UBL has agreed to co-sponsor "OntologySummit2007"
  • SICoP / ONTAC liaison report
  • NCOR liaison report
  • Planning team report

8) Key Issues discussion:

  • Final sync-up on all Ontology Summit 2007 face-to-face preparation:
    • remote attendees
      • we'll just use highspeedconferencing - note that the call is not 'free'
    • Registration
    • Logistics
      • shuttle available from Holiday Inn; or Metro station (every half-hour on the quarter hour), turn right as you walk out the station
      • be at the NIST gate 15~30 minutes before start time; allow time for security, sign-in, badge pickup etc.
      • free continental breakfast served at the "employee lounge" of the NIST Main Building, starting at 7:30am
      • Call Steve 301-9975-3524 or Mary Ann at 301-9975-3508 if there is any question
    • sessions and session preparations
      • providing a platform where we can have some 'real' communications among people who usually don't talk to one another
      • Session-1: Framework - Mon 8:30~12:00
        • Leo: the intent is "inclusive"
        • Michael: "common" characteristics
        • will be posting a draft as "notes for Monday disucssion" to the wiki by tonight
        • Denise: multi-dimensional index for knowledge economy
        • key dimensions - Tom: (a) philosophy ontology vs. computer science ontology, (b) enabling vocabulary, ... semantic dimensions and pragmatic dimensions
        • speaking at this session, besides the co-chairs - 7 people x10 minutes - Werner Ceusters, Peter P. Yim, PaolaDiMaio, Tom Gruber, DeborahMcGuinness, Denise Bedford, Ken Baclawski (brief intro)
      • Session-2: Population
      • Session-3: Communique - starts at 8:00am
        • static vs. dynamic content of the communique (let's get the static portion out asap.)
      • Session-4: Symposium
    • speakers/panelists/presenters
    • co-sponsors / conveners
    • communique and endorsements
    • other preparations
  • Discussion
  • Ideas, Remarks, ...
    • ...

9) New project proposals - item to be skipped

10) Sponsorship and funding - item to be skipped

11) Other business

12) Next meeting date and adjourn

  • this call session adjourned 11:56 am PDT

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minutes captured in real time on this wiki by Peter P. Yim / 2007.04.19-11:59 am PDT

Attendees are requested to review the notes above, help clean it up, and make amendments and edits to better

reflect the proceedings of the session as they see fit (particularly where they are personally involved). =ppy



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