Ontolog Forum
[ontolog] Member Conference Call - Thu 2007-08-02
- This will be a regular operations planning and review meeting for active members of the Ontolog community. ... The meeting is open to all who are interested, RSVP (offline to peter.yim@cim3.com) appreciated.
Conference Call Details
- Date: Thursday, Aug. 2, 2007
- Start Time: 10:30am PDT / 1:30pm EDT / 6:30pm BST / 17:30 GMT/UTC
- ref: World Clock
- Expected Call Duration: ~1.0 hours
- Dial-in Number:
- Direct call from from Skype: +990008275823120
- When calling in from a phone, use Conference ID: "5823120#"
- from a US telephone (US): +1-605-475-8590 (South Dakota, USA)
- from Europe, call:
- Belgium 070-35-9989
- France 0826-100-277
- Germany 01805-00-7649
- Ireland 0818-270-034
- Italy 0848-390-175
- Switzerland 0848-560-195
- UK 0870-738-0763
- callers from other countries please dial into either one of the US or European numbers
- RSVP to peter.yim@cim3.com appreciated.
- Shared-screen support (VNC session), if applicable, will be started 5 minutes before the call at: http://vnc2.cim3.net:5800/
- view-only password: "ontolog"
- This session, like all other Ontolog events, is open to the public. Information relating to this session is shared on this wiki page: http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2007_08_02
Attendees
- Attended:
- Peter P. Yim
- Ken Baclawski
- Marco Newmann (Gallery Systems)
- Jonathan Cheyer
- Expecting:
... (please insert your name above or RSVP by e-mailing <peter.yim@cim3.com> offline)
- Regrets:
Agenda Ideas
.. (please insert your ideas below)
- From Ken Baclawski: let's take some time to talk about Tiki: Purple wiki tagging. Fine-grained tagging at the level of individual items (purple numbers) on a wiki page with migration to MediaWiki and SemanticMediaWiki.
Agenda & Proceedings
1) Welcome & confirmation of agenda
- Ken Baclawski took the chair and welcomed everyone.
2) Appointment of secretary to take minutes
- Peter P. Yim volunteered
3) Roll-call of participants
- see above
- Welcome to new Ontolog community members
4) Upcoming meeting & event schedule (near future)
- Scheduled Ontolog Events:
- Thursday, 23-August-2007 - Mr. Jason R. Baron, Director of Litigation for NARA (the US National Archives and Records Administration) was our invited speaker, who gave a talk on: "Lawyers, Language, and Legal Risk: Emerging Issues in E-Discovery" ... Please refer to details at the session wiki page at: ConferenceCall_2007_08_23 ... Audio archives of the session is now available!
- Thursday, 6-Sep-2007 - Mr. Adam Pease, CEO of Articulate Software will be our invited speaker and gave us an update on SUMO in his talk entitled: "The Suggested Upper Merged Ontology at Age 7: Progress and Promise". Please refer to details on the session wiki page at: ConferenceCall_2007_09_06 ... Audio archives of the session is now available!
- see other scheduled items under the Ontolog News and Announcements.
- Other upcoming events of interest - see: RelevantEventsOfInterest2007
- on deck are Mark Musen, DeborahMcGuinness, John Bateman, TimRedmond-TaniaTudorache-PeterYim (on CODS), MikeBergman (on UMBEL), Asuman Dogac, ... etc.
- more talk in the DatabaseAndOntology series: Holger Knublauch & Ralph Hodgson (TopQuadrant) in Jan.2008 ...
- Ken Baclawski: also on Uncertainty & Decision Support, possibility to grow that into a mini-series
5) Communications, logistics, & work protocols issues
6) Follow-ups from previous calls
- The NASA-Ontolog collaboration is becoming a reality. Stayed tuned for 'official' announcements which should be coming out in the next 2~3 weeks.
- ref. discussion at last week's session(s) - http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2007_07_26#nid131R
7) Current Project Status Report
- Current Project Status Review:
- Status CctRepresentation and UblOntology project work.
- Status of ProtegeKIF project work.
- status of NHIN-RFI & Health-Ont project work. No progress was reported.
- status of OntologTaxoThesaurus project work
- next workshop rescheduled to Thu 2007.09.27 (was originally planned for 2007.07.26)
- status of OntologyDrivenApplications compilation work.
- status of the ONION project startup.
- UBL liaison report
- SICoP / ONTAC liaison report
- NCOR liaison report
- Planning team report - see item 8c below
8) Key Issues discussion:
- Discussion on Tiki: Purple wiki tagging. Fine-grained tagging at the level of individual items (purple numbers) on a wiki page with migration to MediaWiki and SemanticMediaWiki.
- two students of Ken Baclawski is developing this work
- The ontolog-dev mailing list will be repurposed for the project
- A new Ontolog project may be proposed
- Schedule a phone conference 8/17 at 10am Eastern/7am Pacific
9) New project proposals.
10) Sponsorship and funding.
11) Other business.
12) Next meeting date and adjourn
- Our next meeting/call will be the Thu 2007.08.09, same time. Details will be at ConferenceCall_2007_08_09 closer to the time ... talk to you then!
- Again, in view of the fact that a lot of our active members are on their summer vacation, we may opt to cancel this call (1-hour prior to the scheduled start time) if there isn't enough suggested agenda items to warrant having the call.
- this call session adjourned 11:55 am PDT
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