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  • Date: Thursday, May 31, 2007
  • Start Time: 10:30am PDT / 1:30pm EDT / 6:30pm BST / 17:30 GMT/UTC
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Agenda & Proceedings

1) Welcome & confirmation of agenda

2) Appointment of secretary to take minutes

3) Roll-call of participants

  • Welcome to new Ontolog community members

4) Upcoming meeting & event schedule (near future)

  • Scheduled Ontolog Events:
    • Thursday, 28-Jun-2007 - We had the 8th Event in the "Database And Ontology" Mini-Series - The session was co-chaired by Dr. Matthew West and Dr. Susie Stephens. Dr. Souripriya Das and Dr. Melliyal Annamalai from Oracle were their invited speakers who gave a talk on: "Building Database Infrastructure for Managing Semantic Data". ... Please refer to details at the session wiki page, at: ConferenceCall_2007_06_28 ... Audio archives of the session is now available!   
    • Thursday, 05-Jul-2007 - Dr. Matthew West presented the 9th Event in the "Database And Ontology" Mini-Series - Chris Partridge from the BORO Center, UK was our invited speaker. He gave a talk on "Data and process revisited: ontology driving a paradigm shift in the development of business application systems." ... Please refer to details at the session wiki page, at: ConferenceCall_2007_07_05 ... Audio archives of the session is now available!   
    • Thursday, 12-Jul-2007 - Dr. Susie Stephens and Dr. Matthew West presented the 10th Event in the "Database And Ontology" Mini-Series - Dr. John Sowa from VivoMind Intelligence was be our invited speaker. Dr. Sowa gave a talk on: "Analogical Reasoning With and About Databases and Knowledge Bases". Please refer to details at the session wiki page, at: ConferenceCall_2007_07_12 ... Audio archives of the session is now available!    (this is still tentative)

5) Communications, logistics, & work protocols issues

6) Follow-ups from previous calls

7) Current Project Status Report

  • Current Project Status Review:
  • Status CctRepresentation and UblOntology project work - no update
  • status of the ONION project startup - no update
  • UBL liaison report - no update
  • SICoP / ONTAC liaison report - no update
  • NCOR liaison report - no update
  • Planning team report - see item 8c below

8) Key Issues discussion:

  • an effort to collaboratively develop a "common basis"? - ref: http://ontolog.cim3.net/forum/ontolog-forum/2007-05/msg00114.html
    • a natural followup from the UpperOntologySummit
    • potential leadership could come from John F. Sowa, Pat Cassidy, ...
    • Doug: let's ping Steve Ray to see if NIST can take on the leadership to implement this
    • Ken: could collaborate with the OBO Foundary work, which is similar
    • Duane: support of registry/repository software - will find out more in a meeting tomorrow
      • Peter: this would complement well with the CIM3 offer on hardware/infrastructure
    • Duane: we could set up a registry/repository, then define roles and call for volunteers ...
    • Peter & Duane will need to have a discussion (offline initially) to clarify IPR issues
    • All: We should try to report this back to this [ontolog-forum] list, and try to get enough interest to stage a special session for discussing this, to institutionalize this as a "project", and taking this forward
  • Duane / Ken: possibility of putting some AJAX software into the wiki
    • Duane: e.g. auto-page updates
    • Duane: we could also consider the Adobe FLEX, now that it has been open-sourced
    • Ken: one of my students is working on something similar
    • Peter, Ken, Duane, Karlsruhe-folks & team members should get together in a collaboration on this
      • consider calling up another special session
  • Peter: how about a new mini-series on informal ontology - shared understanding, concept maps, dialog maps, visualization, knowledge management, ...
    • Peter: thinking of collaborating with NASA/JPL on this
  • possibilities of a session on collaborative ontology development
    • some recent progress at Stanford / Protege can be interesting
    • this could be one or two sessions ... probably in August 2007 - Peter will be championing this

9) New project proposals.

10) Sponsorship and funding.

  • no discussion

11) Other business.

  • no discussion

12) Next meeting date and adjourn

  • Our next meeting/call will be the Thu 2007.06.07, same time, mainly on Ontology Summit 2007 follow-up action review. Details will be at ConferenceCall_2007_06_07 ... talk to you then!
  • this call session adjourned 12:02 pm PDT

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