UpperOntologySummit - Organizing Committee Conference Call 2006-03-09

Call Details

• Date: Thursday, Mar. 9, 2006
• Start Time: 12:30 PM PST / 3:30 PM EST / 20:30 UTC (World Clock)
• Expected Call Duration: 1.5 hour
• Dial-in Number: 1-641-696-6600 (Iowa)
• Participant Access Code: "68656#"

Attendees

• Attended:
  • Peter P. Yim
  • Pat Cassidy
  • Steve Ray (Chair)
  • Leo Obrst
  • Brand Niemann
  • Dagobert Soergel

• Expecting:

• Regrets:
  • Kurt Conrad

Agenda (items to be discussed) Ideas

• ...(please add suggested items here)...

Agenda & Proceedings

1) Welcome & confirmation of agenda

• Steve Ray took the chair and welcomed everyone.

2) Appointment of secretary to take minutes

• Peter P. Yim volunteered to take minutes

3) Roll-call of participants - see above

4) Urgent matters to be attended to

• get from them: -- Steve will also post this to the [uos-convene] list; only require responses from the 'custodians'
  • the brief high level characterization of their UO
  • statement of what they think are the most promising opportunties and the challenges to knowledge transfer between theirs and other UO's, and how they can tackle those challenges.

5) Communications, logistics, & work protocols issues

6) Follow-up from previous meetings

• follow-up from last UOS-Conveners' call

• review of ealier meetings' action items:
  • call Dieter Fensel - Leo
  • call Jerry Hobbs & Aldo Gangemi - Pat
  • inviting w3c / Eric Miller / Tim Berners-Lee

7) Status review and ongoing discussions

• candidate particpants (various groups)
  • see additions & work-in-progress under: http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?UpperOntologySummit#nidIO7

• Finalize UOS and prep sessions agenda:
  • UpperOntologySummit/OrganizingCommitteeMeeting_2006_03_09/UosConvenerMeeting_2006_03_14
    • custodians presentations will be 5 minutes each (not 10)
    • Cyc, SUMO and DOLCE will go first
  • UpperOntologySummit/OrganizingCommitteeMeeting_2006_03_09/UosApplicationDialogMeeting_2006_03_15
    • Brand: probably not finalizing until Friday or Saturday (people involved are still at semtech2006)
    • Brand will send DaveMcComb's work to [uos-org] for discussion
  • UpperOntologySummitMeeting_2006_03_15
    • Steve will open, context setting
    • Mills will then provide the overview of ontology, semantic interoperability, formal ontology, upper ontology, benefits, business values, ... etc.
    • Doug can then go into why UO, ...
    • Pat (or a spokesman the custodians agree to) to roll out the joint comunique
    • the custodians then can take turns to present their views of the present and future of UO technology
    • Steve: concluding remarks

8) New Issues discussed:

9) Action Items

• Peter to ask all presenters for their slides by Sunday noon 3/12
  • 5 minutes for 3/14 and 3/15 (see agenda for topic relevance) - all custodians whoever are specifically named

10) Next meeting date and adjournment

• Next meeting will be our first face-to-face session - see: UpperOntologySummit/OrganizingCommitteeMeeting_2006_03_09/UosConvenerMeeting_2006_03_14

• call adjourned 1:52 pm PST / 4:52 pm EST

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minutes captured in real time on this wiki by Peter P. Yim / 2006.03.09-13:53 PST