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OpenOntologyRepository: OOR Team Conference Call - Fri 2009-01-23

OpenOntologyRepository team conference call, Fri 2009.01.23, 1.0~1.5 Hr. call starting 12:00pm EST / 9:00am PST / 6pm CET / 17:00 UTC

... please refer to proceedings of the last meeting at: OOR/ConferenceCall_2009_01_09

Conference Call Details

  • Date: Friday, Jan. 23, 2009
  • Start Time: 12:00pm EST / 9:00am PST / 6:00pm CET / 17:00 UTC
  • Expected Call Duration: 1.0~1.5 hours
  • Dial-in Number:
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  • RSVP to peter.yim@cim3.com appreciated, ... or simply just by adding yourself to the "Expected Attendee" list below (if you are a member of the team.)
  • Please note that this session may be recorded, and if so, the audio archive is expected to be made available as open content, along with the proceedings of the call to our community membership and the public at-large under our prevailing open IPR policy.

Attendees

  • Expecting:
    • ... if you are coming to the meeting, please add your name above (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

please insert below (along with your name for follow-up purposes)

  • Re-assessing our resources & discuss student support with Michael Grüninger abd (possibly) Kathy Laskey
  • Peter: partitioning the join OOR-Ontolog mini-series championship effort
  • Tweaking our implementation approach

Agenda & Proceedings

1. Meeting called to order:

  • review and adopt agenda

2. Roll Call:

3. Status Review and Discussion:

  • Urgent issues:
    • None
  • Todd: current discussion on [ontolog-forum] is interesting, and is pertinent to OOR
    • among them, governance issue could be a research issue
  • Outstanding Issue review/update: (from last call)

Suggested topics to be covered:

  • Re-assessing our resources & discuss student support with Michael Grüninger and (possibly) KathyLaskey
    • Given the addition of US-EU collaboration and student efforts, suggest we get a chance to collectively re-assess who is actively "on" now, what resources they are bringing to the table, and then tweaking and fine tune our implementation approach again
    • (from the 2008.12.12 call) Todd and Mike will go check on possibility of companies to sponsor project and provide some small funding for student travel (to report on their projects) and the like
      • (from the 2009.01.09 call)Todd: No (not for now) from his company
    • (from the 2008.12.12 call) Rex can provide contacts who have real needs for an OOR type product
    • (from the 2009.01.09 call) Todd Schneider will ping Kathy Laskey and Michael Grüninger and report back at the next call
    • Peter: check out our panel discussion on "Getting OOR Development Off the Ground: Identifying Synergies & Gaps" - http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2008_08_22
    • Michael: have one student available now, and another available in April
      • inclination towards first order logic ... starting up a project called COLORE - common logic ontology repository (the student available in April does not even have to be working on this)
    • Todd / Michael: focus on implementation and functional issues
      • Todd: hopefully based on ontological engineering approaches
    • Peter: we still don't have a OOR repository for people to put ontologies into yet! That should be among our first steps
    • Ken / Peter: this group is still working on an NSF proposal, but we are not waiting ... should move the OOR project with volunteer work and passion
    • Michael: maybe we should explore what is the simplest things we can do in the next six months that could help move the project forward
    • maybe we should do a take-2 on "Getting OOR Development Off the Ground: Identifying Synergies & Gaps" - ref: take-1: http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2008_08_22
      • this time around we pre-define what we needs to walk out of that meeting with
      • Todd: I'll do a roll up of what needs to be addressed in stage one, and to articulate the 'goal'
      • Ken: I am sure there are people who would want to contribute, but we need to identify the "gaps" that they can fill in
      • Todd: if I remember correctly, Kathy even suggested that a whole class would work on a piece like that
      • Todd will champion this take-2 event - now scheduled for Thursday 2009.02.19 1:30~3:30pm EST
        • 2009_02_19 - Thursday: Joint Ontolog-OOR Panel Discussion: "Getting OOR Development Off the Ground (Take-2): the work begins" - Chair: Todd Schneider; Panelists: Mark Musen, Natasha Noy, Mike Dean, Paul Buitelaar / Andreas Harth, Mathieu Daquin, Ken Baclawski, Michael Grüninger - ConferenceCall_2009_02_19   
        • format: invited panelists with 10~15 min. briefing to seed the discussion, an extended open discussion to address the specific issues and goals, augmented with chat session to capture participant inputs
      • ALL: we need a place the the project (which is available now at SemWebCentral) and a 'repository" where people can submit their ontologies,(which we don't have yet)!
  • partitioning the join OOR-Ontolog mini-series championship effort
    • Peter to try resuming conversation with the rest of the champions and report back at the next call
  • Tweaking our implementation approach
  • Other Progress updates and Discussions:
  • OOR-related-project status updates:
  • Funding and proposals
    • (from the 2009.01.09 call) Bruce still working toward some collaborative effort with Mark Musen - will let everyone know when some progress is made
    • (from the 2009.01.09 call) Peter: ALL - don't forget to use the "OOR" label (so we can help build the "brand" recognition and each other)!
  • short term activity and action plans

4. New Issues:

5. Any Other Business:

6. Action items:

  • our short-term plan:
    • tasks
    • deliverables
    • Timeline / Milestones:

7. Schedule Next Meeting & Adjourn:

  • Next Meeting:
    • next OOR-team meeting will be on Fri 2009.02.06 - 1.0 Hr. starting 9:00am PST / 12:00pm EST / 6:00pm CET / 17:00 UTC
    • Note: earlier resolution: all team members please (if possible) block out Fridays 1.5 Hr starting 12:00pm EDT / 9:00am PDT / 16:00 GMT/UTC
  • Call adjourned at: 10:00 am PST

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notes taken by: Peter P. Yim / 2009.01.23-10:01am PST

All participants, please review and edit to enhance accuracy and granularity of the documented proceedings.


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