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= [ontolog] Member Conference Call - Thu 2006-03-30 =

=== [[MeetingsCalls|Conference Call]] Details ===

* Subject: [ontolog] member conference call Thu 2006-03-30

* Date: Thursday, Mar. 30, 2006
* Start Time: 10:30 AM PST / 1:30 PM EST / 18:30 UTC [http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?month=3&day=30&year=2006&hour=10&min=30&sec=0&p1=224 World Clock]
* Expected Call Duration: 1 ~ 1.5 hour
* Dial-in Number: 1-641-696-6600 (Iowa)
* Participant Access Code: "686564#"

* Agenda Comments:
** ... build rapport; ... sync up; ... distribute, assign or arbitrate virtual ownership of tasks; ... and use it to deal with emergencies. ... plus, member suggested agenda items.
** please post any suggested agenda items to the call wiki page and upload any material to be shared to the list, to the wiki or by [[ToolsCollaboration|[[WebDAV]]] upload] prior to the meeting
** VNC session (if needed) will be started 5 minutes before the call at: http://vnc2.cim3.net:5800/
*** view-only password: "ontolog"
*** view-and-control pw: to be supplied during session as needed
** Wiki page for this call (i.e. this page) is at: http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2006_03_30

=== Attendees ===

* Attended:
** [[PeterYim|Peter P. Yim]]
** [[SteveRay|Steve Ray]]
** [[LeoObrst|Leo Obrst]]
** [[KurtConrad|Kurt Conrad]]
** [[PatCassidy|Pat Cassidy]]
** [[MonicaMartin|Monica Martin]]
** [[PatHeinig|Pat Heinig]]
** [[RexBrooks|Rex Brooks]]

* Expecting:
** ''...(add your name here)...''

* Regrets:
** [[DavidCMartin]]
** [[DagobertSoergel|Dagobert Soergel]]
** [[MatthewWest|Matthew West]]
** [[NaijunZhou|Naijun Zhou]]
** [[PeterBrown|Peter Brown]]
** EMichaelMaximilien

=== Agenda Ideas (candidate items to be adopted into the agenda for discussion) ===

* Plan the next 3 months' speaker and technical discussion sessions
* follow-ups from the UOS
* ''...(add suggested items here)...''

== Agenda & Proceedings ==

1) Welcome & confirmation of agenda

* [[KurtConrad|Kurt Conrad]] took the chair and welcomed everyone.

2) Appointment of secretary to take minutes

* [[PeterYim|Peter P. Yim]] volunteered

3) Roll-call of participants

* see [[ConferenceCall_2006_03_30|above]]

4) Upcoming meeting & event schedule (near future)

* Reference: Nominal meeting types (on a monthly basis):
** member regular meeting
** invited speaker session
** scheduled discussion
** project review
** workshop / work session
** planning

* Scheduled Ontolog Events (point person)
** Thu 2006.04.13 - invited speaker: [[DeniseBedford|Denise Bedford]] (confirmed)
** Thu 2006.04.20 - "Ontologizing the Ontolog Content - Session-I" Technical Discussion session (confirmed)
** Thu 2006.05.11 - DavidFurrucci of IBM Research (Watson) on UIMA - confirmed (EMichaelMaximilien)
** others: look under item 8 below

* Invited Speaker Schedule for the next 3~6 months:
** Candidate -
*** [[SimonBuckinghamShum]] of the Compendium Institute ( ? ; ref. [http://ontolog.cim3.net/forum/ontolog-forum/2004-12/msg00014.html#nid01 post] from [[ScottLHolmes]] & PeterYim's [http://ontolog.cim3.net/forum/ontolog-forum/2004-12/msg00016.html#nid04 response])
*** LarryReeker of NIST (suggested by SusanTurnbull)
*** John Sowa (suggested by [[BillMcCarthy]])
** other suggestions:
*** Monica: suggest inviting someone from the [regrep] group
*** Rex suggsted we should also invite UDDI and XMDR people, and possibly to have all three parties (regrep, uddi & xmdr) on a panel
*** Peter also suggested that we should invite [http://informatik.uibk.ac.at/~dieter/ Dieter Fensel] to talk to us some time
*** Rex / Peter: XMDR - [[Bargmeyer|Bruce Bargmeyer]] or someone from his XMDR team
*** [[PeterYim|Peter P. Yim]] / [[ElisaKendall|Elisa Kendall]]: [[PatHayes|Pat Hayes]], [[DeborahMcGuinness]]
*** To be brought up for discussion:
**** [[ChrisMenzel|Chris Menzel]]: [[BillAndersen|Bill Andersen]]
**** [[BrandNiemann|Brand Niemann]] / Mark Musen / [[PeterYim|Peter P. Yim]]: Frank Hartel (NIH/NCI)
**** [[BrandNiemann|Brand Niemann]] / [[PeterYim|Peter P. Yim]]: RoyRoebuck
**** [[DuaneNickull|Duane Nickull]]: suggesting candidates from Microsoft - Phil Berstein & Sergey Melnik - ref: http://ontolog.cim3.net/forum//ontolog-forum/2005-08/msg00027.html
**** [[DuaneNickull|Duane Nickull]]: EricMiller, Tim Berners-Lee of W3C
**** [[ChrisMenzel|Chris Menzel]] & [[PeterYim|Peter P. Yim]]: [[ChrisMenzel|Chris Menzel]] some time early 2006 - on some of the work he is doing at Boeing)
**** [[PeterBrown|Peter Brown]] & [[PeterYim|Peter P. Yim]] (new!): [[PeterBrown|Peter Brown]] some time early 2006 - on the EU project that [[PeterBrown|Peter Brown]] has been working on in Austria: of building an "eGovernment Resources Network" - the issues relating to handling the exchange of reference information about eGovernment services across the continent - in many languages. This could serve as an interesting case study of what we are looking for from so-called "semantic web services".
**** [[BrandNiemann|Brand Niemann]] (new! input/2005.10.15): EricPeterson - who's been working on an OWL version of the FEA-DRM and who was to lead the COSMO development subgroup in the newly formed SICoP / ONTAC-WG. The new lead is [[DagobertSoergel|Dagobert Soergel]] from University of Maryland; we should consider inviting him too.
**** [[MillsDavis|Mills Davis]] (new! / 2005.11.26) - Conor Shankey (CEO, Visual Knowledge)
**** [[PeterYim|Peter P. Yim]] (new! / 2005.11.28) - [[AdamCheyer|Adam Cheyer]], SRI, on the CALO project
**** [[PeterYim|Peter P. Yim]] (new! Prompted by Doug Lenat's talk) - [[MikeGenesereth|Mike Genesereth]] (director of the Stanford Logic Group)
**** [[BobSmith|Bob Smith]] / [[PeterYim|Peter P. Yim]] / EMichaelMaximilien (new! / 2006.01.23) - Tom Gruber
**** suggest we also try to invite candidate speakers to join us at weekly calls and other ontolog events so that they get more familiar with the community and vice versa
**** [[RexBrooks|Rex Brooks]] (new! / 2006.01.25) - [[JoeChiusano|Joe Chiusano]] of Booz Allen Hamilton
**** [[PeterYim|Peter P. Yim]] (new! 2006.02.14) - [[JackPark|Jack Park]] of SRI on topic maps, openiris, tagging contents, ...
**** [[DuaneNickull|Duane Nickull]] (new! 2006.02.28) - Robert Tolksdorf of Freie Universität Berlin (Germany) or someone from their group
***** ref. their "Semantic Technologies in Collaborative Applications (STICA 06)" - http://www.inf.fu-berlin.de/inst/ag-nbi/conf/STICA06/
**** [[LeoObrst|Leo Obrst]] (new! 2006.03.23) - [[RobinMcEntire]] from Glaxo Smith Klein for his application expire (he was at the NCOR inauguration)
**** [[LeoObrst|Leo Obrst]] (new! 2006.03.23) - [[BobMcGregor]] from Siderean (previously ISI)
**** [[LeoObrst|Leo Obrst]] (new! 2006.03.23) - others from ISI like EdHovey ...
**** [[LeoObrst|Leo Obrst]] (new! 2006.03.23) - RichardFikes from Stanford KSL
**** [[LeoObrst|Leo Obrst]] (new! 2006.03.23) - [[IanHorrocks|Ian Horrocks]] from University of Manchester
**** [[LeoObrst|Leo Obrst]] (new! 2006.03.23) - [[PeterPatelSchneider]] from Bell Labs

* near future - Roy, Denise, Conor, Jack & DavidFurrucci (on UIMA) - Kurt and Peter will follow-up with these speakers off-line
** continue discussion under item 8 below

* EMichaelMaximilien will ping [[MikeGenesereth|Mike Genesereth]] and some potential UIMA speakers on behalf of the community

* Scheduled Discussions for the next 3 months - * = extended discussion under item 8 [[ConferenceCall_2006_02_16|below]]:
** EMichaelMaximilien / [[NicolasRouquette|Nicolas Rouquette]] / [[DeniseBedford|Denise Bedford]] / [[PeterYim|Peter P. Yim]] - tagging the Ontolog (knowledge repository) content*
** [[RexBrooks|Rex Brooks]] / [[BobSmith|Bob Smith]] - ontology application in emergency response*
** Other candidates:
*** Rex: possibility of working with Duane on a follow-up to the last SOA discussion
*** Rex suggsted we should also invite UDDI and XMDR people, and possibly to have all three parties (regrep, uddi & xmdr) on a panel
*** Adam: need OWL & SWRL for OWL ontologies to really be useful
*** [[NicolasRouquette|Nicolas Rouquette]] -- other topics lined up?
*** Kurt: we should revisit "CCTS ontology" for Nov. (even Sep.) - we'll talk to Duane again if he shows up next week; if he doesn't Kurt, will ping Duane.
*** Anders: we should have a "Tools / Testing" discussion
*** Kurt: "on metamodels, independent of the representation" (at a level that allows us to avoid the language war)
**** Bob: as a segway into things like pi-calculus, tec.
*** [[PeterYim|Peter P. Yim]]: "moving from data standards to data-model- and semantic-model-driven eBusiness standards"
**** candidate panelists: BruceBarqmeyer, [[MarkCrawford|Mark Crawford]], [[ElisaKendall|Elisa Kendall]], [[AdamPease|Adam Pease]], [[MikeDaconta|Mike Daconta]], [[JimHendler|Jim Hendler]], [[SteveRay|Steve Ray]] (moderator?)
**** maybe a joint SICoP-Ontolog event, as part of another Collaborative Expedition Workshop?
*** more session for the "Ontolgy Applications and Implementations" series
*** (new! 2006.01.26) - tagging multimedia and other Ontolog content for podcast & semantic search

* Upcoming Events of interest

5) Communications, logistics, & work protocols issues

6) Follow-ups from previous calls

* Ontolog at the UN/CEFACT Mar.2006 Vancouver, Canada meeting - [[BillMcCarthy]]
** Bill was not at the call, we'll look to his report at the next call

* Ontolog at the [[UpperOntologySummit]] Mar.2006 Gaithersburg, MD, US meetings - [[PeterYim|Peter P. Yim]]
** project homepage at: http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?UpperOntologySummit
** UOS meeting proceedings at: http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?UpperOntologySummitMeeting_2006_03_15
** UOS Joint communique at: http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?UpperOntologySummit/UosJointCommunique
*** for those who were there (or helped prepare the UOS), your endorsement is solicited, if not already included there

* Bob and Nicolas will work on the ontological lessons learned in our exercise on [[RegularConferenceCall]] scheduling -- (Bob / Nicolas - please bring closure to this item) - discussion postponed (unless we have time)

7) Current Project Status Report - discussion postponed

* Status CCT-Representation and UBL-Ontology project work
** Requirements issues (ref: http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?UseCases)
** Formalization issues
** [CCT-Rep] status report

* Status of Protege-KIF project work

* status of NHIN-RFI & Health-Ont project work

* UBL liaison report

* SICoP liaison report

* NCOR relationship - pending

* Planning team report - see item 8 below

* [[UpperOntologySummit]] - organizing committee report
** more audio has been made available by NIST/Steve - Peter: they'll be posted soon
** UOS-organizing commmittee concludes that we should freeze the UOS Joint Communique; any refinement can go into the whitepaper that's going to be worked on
** will use the Ontolog environment to pursue any follow-ups to UOS
*** the [uos-convene] list, wiki etc. will conitnue to be available for the purpose
** possible follow-up with NSF
*** Steve: need to be careful from the government ethics standpoint. Leo concurs. This applies to NIST and MITRE.
*** NIST and Ontolog will keep each other posted

8) Key Issues discussion:

* Planning our events for the next quarter
** worksheet updated - see: http://ontolog.cim3.net/file/work/Ontolog-planning/Ontolog_Event_Plan_2006_20060309.doc ... [http://ontolog.cim3.net/file/work/Ontolog-planning/Ontolog_Event_Plan_2006_20060309h.doc working copy]
*** confirmed invitation of [[DavidFerrucci|David Ferrucci]] of IBM to talk on UIMA 2006.05.11 - thanks to EMichaelMaximilien (who helped us extend the invitation)
*** also confirmed these dates now: 2006.04.13 - DeniseBedford's talk; 2006.04.20 - "Tagging-session-1"
**** Denise will drive this through the [ontolog-forum]
*** we managed to lock in a few dates already, still need to confirm others [attn: Max & Conor - please advise]
**** Need from Max: confirmation on "Tagging-session-2" date and Mike Genesereth invitation/date.

* from our [[ConferenceCall_2006_02_16|2006.02.16 & prior discussion]], as well as discussion at this call:
** "Tagging Ontolog Content" Discussion Sessions - a.k.a. " A pilot exercise toward building an ontology application"
*** ''session 1'': what do we want to do? (i.e. to do with the content we are tagging)
**** moderators: Denise, Max & Nicolas
**** date: April 20, 2006 (confirmed -- Denise / 2006.03.23)
**** candidate panelists: to be discussed ... possibly through a call via the forum
*** ''session 2'': what are the technologies available? ... and what are our constraints and choices of technology to get the job done?
**** moderators: Max & Conor
**** date: end April or early May
**** candidate panelists:

*
** [[PatHeinig|Pat Heinig]] suggested considering having the OSERA work featured in "tagging session-2" also (Peter: concur)

* (b) [[RexBrooks|Rex Brooks]] / [[BobSmith|Bob Smith]] - '''ontology application in emergency response''' technical discussion session
** June 22, 2006 - Rex and Bob will co-moderate

* (c) '''Ontolog face-to-face workshop''' at the Ninth International Protege Conference that is scheduled to be held July 23-26, 2006 in Stanford, California? -- ref: http://ontolog.cim3.net/forum//ontolog-forum/2006-02/msg00028.html
** definitely want to do this - consider to have Bob & Kurt lead this
** Theme: along the lines of "Formal and Informal"

9) New project proposals

10) Sponsorship and funding

* Steve: consider SBIR (most us-based UO custodians would probably qualify)
* Peter: try getting a team (subset of UOS-conveners) to start thinking about a joint proposal
** and then invite someone from NSF over, to join us at a conference call to bounce the idea off him/her.

11) Other business

* follow-up actions from the [[UpperOntologySummit]]

* Ontolog support letter to Mark Musen / Protege project - http://ontolog.cim3.net/forum//ontolog-forum/2006-03/msg00032.html
** [[KurtConrad|Kurt Conrad]] will have a draft ready real soon

* Should we have a joint presence at OIS2006? - OIS2006: 1st International Workshop on Ontologizing Industrial Standards
** this is exactly what we said we'll strive to do on our charter! - ref: http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?WikiHomePage#nidB
** November 6-9, 2006 - Tucson, Arizona, USA - colocated with the 25th International Conference on Conceptual Modeling (ER2006)
** see: http://ontolog.cim3.net/forum//ontolog-forum/2006-03/msg00020.html & http://events.deri.at/ois2006/
** EMichaelMaximilien is in contact with some of these people ... he can help relay questions if we have any
** conflict with 5th International Semantic Web Conference (same week, but in Athens, Georgia)
** abstract deadline is May 1, 2006 (so we still have some time to get organized if we want to really do something)
** this is definitely relevant to us ... let's think things over and come back for more discussion at the next call

* project work session / discussion - '''"Beginning" of Year Planning for Ontolog''' -- to be postponed to the next membership conference call - discussion postponed (unless we have time)
** SWOT Analysis
*** strengths
*** weaknesses
*** opportunities
*** threats

* initiatives for this year

* action plans
** Leo, Pat, Steve & Peter to try get some interaction on the [uos-convene] list
** try getting the UOS-conveners together next week (Apr. 6) to explore the possibilities of drawing up a joint proposal

12) Next meeting date and adjourn

* Our next meeting/callwill be next Thu 2006.04.06, a regular active membership conference call
* this call adjourned 11:40 am PST

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