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OpenOntologyRepository: OOR Team Conference Call - Fri 2009-10-02

OpenOntologyRepository team conference call, Fri 2009-10-02, 1.0~1.5 Hr. call starting 12:00pm EDT / 9:00am PDT / 6:00pm CET / 5:00pm GMT / 17:00 UTC

Conference Call Details

  • Date: Friday, October 2, 2009
  • Start Time: 12:00pm EDT / 9:00am PDT / 6:00pm CEST / 5:00pm BST / 16:00 UTC
  • Expected Call Duration: 1.0~1.5 hours
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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)

  • OOR-sandbox server install - who/when
  • progress review on planned OOR-related events
    • tie down details for the upcoming (Oct-15) virtual session
  • reports on member activities that are OOR-related
  • ...

Agenda & Proceedings

1. Meeting called to order:

  • review and adopt agenda

2. Roll Call:

  • welcome to new participants - Jeff Abbott, Terry Patten, Yavuz Eren
    • Jeff: Navy related work ... would look to meet some of the folks here during ISWC2009
    • Terry: working on an Air Force project
    • Yavuz: from KenBaclawski's research group ... also on Ken's Web Services (REST and SOAP) class which will be using the OOR-sandbox

3. Status Review and Discussion:

  • Urgent issues:
    • none
  • Key items for discussion at this call:
    • OOR-sandbox server install - who/when
      • Peter: support needed from one more party (besides NCBO and CIM3) to help quickly install the updated version of BioPortal as an updated next OOR-sandbox instance, on a x64 virtual machine (at the CIM3 tier-1 colocation facility) some time next week
        • Peter: CIM3 will have the vm ready after this weekend
        • Ken: I'll put one of my (NEU) students Tejas Parikh onto this
      • Natasha: there should be documentation that will guide the installation
      • Peter: we'll coordinate and document this on [oor-dev]
        • Natasha will email Ken Baclawski, Mike Dean & Peter P. Yim on the installation instructions off-line
        • the OOR team will post the instllation instructions later to the wiki after modifying and extending it as an OOR installation guide
  • Ken's classes: (for information only)
    • Ravi asked if course material is available online - Ken responded that they are online (Ken's site has a lin to it.)
  • SOCoP collaboration
    • Led by Nancy Wiegand, they have submitted a grant proposal to the NSF INTEROP program, in which collaboration with OOR is among one of the key aspects
    • SOCoP is also drumming up a closer collaboration with Ontolog Forum
    • SOCoP will be hosting a full-day workshop at MITRE (Washington DC Area) on Monday 12-Nov-2009 [errata]
      • Ontolog might participate as a co-organizer and contribute to making the workshop available to remote participants
    • SOCoP is also running the "Terra Cognita" workshop at ISWC2009 on 26-Oct-2009 afternoon - see: http://asio.bbn.com/terracognita2009/
    • (2009.10.02) no news on the results of the NSF funding proposal yet (Frank confirms)
  • Ontology Summit plans
    • Steve and Peter reported that we would want to have a idea about Ontology Summit 2010 before we go to ISWC2009 (Oct 25~29, 2009)
    • Some good topics have been suggested - ref. http://ontolog.cim3.net/forum/ontology-summit/2009-05/msg00035.html and http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2009_05_14#nid1XNU
    • Peter / Michael / Ken: other possibilities for co-organizers include; besides NIST ... IAOA, FOIS, NEU
    • (2009.10.02) Steve: symposium venue at NIST pretty much ok ... tying down who from NIST will be our sponsor.
    • (2009.10.02) Peter: IAOA just committed to be a core co-organizer for Ontology Summit 2010 and beyond
    • (2009.10.02) Steve / Leo / Peter; we'll need to have some planning meeting(s) after October.
  • FOIS 2010 is going to be at Toronto University (MichaelGruninger will be the local chair) - see: http://fois2010.mie.utoronto.ca/
    • Calling for conference papers, and for the two workshops (one of which is on Modular Ontologies, which is very relevant to the current OOR work)
    • Michael encourages folks here to submit paper to the conference and workshop - Conference CFP, ref. http://ontolog.cim3.net/forum/ontolog-invitation/2009-09/msg00000.html (2009.10.23 is the deadline)
    • (2009.10.02) Michael: KR conference (and others) also colocated ... FOIS will have joint sessions with them
  • OOR Outreach
    • ISWC 2009:
      • Todd and Ken have produced a poster that has been accepted by the ISWC2009 conference.
      • Ken and Todd have written a paper that has been accepted by the CK2009 Workshop at ISWC "Workshop on Collaborative Construction, Management and Linking of Structured Knowledge". The paper deals with OOR requirements and research challenges.
    • Semantic Web meetings.
    • OMG collaboration.
      • Ravi Sharma will be contacting Cory Casanave, Elisa Kendall and Evan Wallace regarding OMG related ontology repository efforts. There could be interest in a joint OMG-OOR panel meeting in the Ontolog Forum. We need to determine what they are doing.
    • (2009.10.02) BOF meeting for OOR folks
      • Leo: how about an informal lunch? ... Todd: or evening
        • Leo & Mike already have a commitment for Thursday
      • Ken will champion this get together ... thanks, Ken!
  • Funding and proposals
    • Ken Baclawski submitted an proposal to STCI, jointly with Peter P. Yim and MikeDean.
    • Peter P. Yim is involved in proposals that have OOR as one aspect, to the INTEROP and STCI programs with Mark Musen
    • Carlos Rueda has submitted a proposal that has OOR as a key aspect.
  • Short term activity and action plans

4. New Issues:

5. Any Other Business:

6. Action items:

7. Schedule Next Meeting & Adjourn:

  • Next Meeting:
    • next team event Thu 2009.10.15 Ontolog-OOR panel session - see details session page at: ConferenceCall_2009_10_15
    • next regular OOR-team conference call Fri 2009.11.13 - OOR/ConferenceCall_2009_11_13
    • Note: earlier resolution: all team members please (if possible) block out Fridays 1.5 Hr starting 12:00pm ET / 9:00am PT / 16:00 GMT/UTC
  • Call adjourned at: 10:04am PDT

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notes taken by: Peter P. Yim / 2009.10.02-10:33 am PDT

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


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