Ontolog Forum
[ontolog] Member Conference Call - Thu 2005-04-14
Conference Call Details
- Subject: [ontolog] member conference call Thu 2005-04-14
- 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_2005_04_14
- Date: Thursday, Apr. 14, 2005
- Start Time: 10:30 AM PDT / 1:30 PM EDT World Clock
- Expected Call Duration: 1 ~ 1.5 hour
- Dial-in Number: 1-702-851-3330 (Las Vegas, Nevada)
- Participant Access Code: "686564#"
Attendees
- Attended:
- Expecting:
- Regrets:
- Paul Koch
- LisaSeaburg
- Ray Fergerson
- James Douma (meeting conflict)
- Leo Obrst
- BillMcCarthy
Agenda Ideas
Agenda & Proceedings
1) Welcome & confirmation of agenda
- Kurt Conrad took the chair and welcomed everyone.
2) Appointment of secretary to take minutes
- Peter P. Yim volunteered
3) Roll-call of participants
- see above
4) Upcoming meeting & event schedule (near future)
- Nominal meeting types (on a monthly basis):
- member regular meeting
- invited speaker session
- scheduled discussion
- project review
- workshop / work session
- planning
- Invited Speaker Schedule for the next 3~6 months
- for Apr. 2005 - Michael Uschold from Boeing - Thu 2005-04-21 - confirmed (-ppy) - see: ConferenceCall_2005_04_21
- for May. 2005 - Monica Martin from Sun - Thu 2005-05-12 - confirmed
- for Jun. 2005 - David Whitten & ChrisRichardson from WorldVistA - Thu 2005-06-16 - confirmed (-ppy)
- for Jul. 2005 - Anders Tell of Business Collaboration Toolsmiths, AB (Sweden) - suggested by Duane Nickull - confirmed date: Thu 2005.07.14
- future candidates speakers:
- LarryReeker of NIST (suggested by SusanTurnbull)
- SimonBuckinghamShum of the Compendium Institute ( ? ; ref. post from ScottLHolmes & PeterYim's reponse)
- Doug Lenat on the Cyc project (suggested by PeterYim)
- Nicola Guarino on DOLCE, possibly also BillAnderson or Chris Welty (suggested by Peter P. Yim & PatCassidy)
- new suggestions:
- a panel with speaker representating: SUMO, OpenCyc Upper Ontology, DOLCE, ... (suggested by PeterYim)
- possibly teaming up with SICoP and their CUO-WG; after independent sessions on Cyc and DOLCE
- Monica: suggest inviting someone from the [regrep] group
- Mark Greaves of DARPA - suggested by Nancy Faget and Peter P. Yim - confirmed intent; date to be fixed
- Jon Bosak of Sun on OASIS Process - suggested (KurtConrad) at our 2005.03.03 Planning Session
- possibility of this rolling into a joint SICoP or CEW-multiple CoP Best Practice event - Jun.2005? (SusanTurnbull)
- a panel with speaker representating: SUMO, OpenCyc Upper Ontology, DOLCE, ... (suggested by PeterYim)
- In view of the great line-up of wonderful speakers, and the strong feedback that our speaker sessions (and the recordings) have really been useful to the community, we could consider doing speaking sessions twice a month - one on the regular Thursdays, and the other on a Monday, Tuesday or Wednesday (outside of the regilar call day) so that people (speaker or audience) who has a standing conflict on Thursdays could be accomodated too. (--suggested by KurtConrad)
- Scheduled Discussions for the next 2 months
- David: maybe we should designate a moderator, and then coordinate the event from there, in a fashion similar to speaker events.
- see: Ontolog Discussion
- more work/discussion on OWL
- Adam: need OWL & SWRL for OWL ontologies to really be useful
- Nicolas Rouquette has a couple of topics lined up too ... we'll talk about those when he is at the call.
- Nicolas will moderate - Date: Thu 2005.04.28 - Nicolas will post something and solicit responses
- Upcoming Events of interest
- April 7-8, 2005 - Semantic Web Applications for National Security
- Stanford Clinical Informatics seminar series; events on 4/8; 4/15; (4/22 rescheduled) & 4/29.2005 - see: http://clinicalinformatics.stanford.edu/scci_seminars/2004-05.html
- In particular, Mark Musen will be speaking on Fri 2005.05.27 (was 2005.04.22 - note change of date) on "The Role of Ontologies in the Electronic Health Record." - see: http://clinicalinformatics.stanford.edu/scci_seminars/2004-05.html
- Mon 2005-04-25 CCTONT work session at Stanford - see: CctRepresentation/WorkSession_2005_04_25_CCT
- Mon~Wed 2005-04-25~27 - Transforming Healthcare with Information (w/ Information Liquidity) - see: http://www.almaden.ibm.com/institute/agenda.shtml - Bob Smith will be there, and will report to the group afterwards
5) Communications, logistics, & work protocols issues
- none
6) Follow-ups from previous calls
- none
7) Current Project Status Report
- Status CCT-Representation and UBL-Ontology project work
- work session coming up (at Stanford) on Mon 2005.04.25 - see: http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?CctRepresentation/WorkSession_2005_04_25_CCT (details coming soon)
- expected onsite: Ray Fergerson, Olivier Dameron, Peter P. Yim, Kurt Conrad, ... please add your name here if you plan to join
- expected to call in: Pat Cassidy, Adam Pease (maybe, will think about it), ... please add your name here if you plan to join
- work session coming up (at Stanford) on Mon 2005.04.25 - see: http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?CctRepresentation/WorkSession_2005_04_25_CCT (details coming soon)
- Status of Protege-KIF project work
- same as above - work session at Stanford with the Protege team, Mon 2005.04.25
- status of NHIN-RFI & Health-Ont project work
- ref Brand's input, 35 (out of the 500) responses now available online, which Bob has zipped up
- availability may be under the 'freedom of information act'
- ontolog is tracking the opportunities for now
- Bob has a potential vendor
- ref Brand's input, 35 (out of the 500) responses now available online, which Bob has zipped up
- UBL liaison report
- no report
- SICoP liaison report
- no report
- status report from Planning team
- planning team conference call today (right after this call)
- Leo Obrst cannot join today, but possibly ok on 2005.04.28 same time.
- see proceedings of today's session captured at: http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?OntologPlanning_2005#nidC3A
- planning team conference call today (right after this call)
8) project work session / discussion
- not today
9) New project proposals
- Anders - UN/CEFACT Modeling Methodology (UMM) - has UML now, OWL is on the list
- sugested that the 4/25 work session at Stanford would be of interest
- also suggested that Ontolog's case at the EIDX panel would be of interest - see: http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2004_12_01#nid4AH
- Nicolas request some pointers to UMM related resources.
- Anders: see - Current version of UMM http://www.unece.org/cefact/umm/umm_index.htm
10) Sponsorship and funding
- working with Brand Niemann and Mike Daconta to see if we can get some sponsorship for the production level CCT-Representation / UBL-Ontology work.
11) Other business
12) Next meeting date and adjourn
- call adjourned 11:30am PST
- next call will be on Thu 2005.04.21 starting at 10:30am PST
- Michael Uschold will be presenting next week - see: http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2005_04_21
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minutes captured in real time on this wiki by Peter P. Yim
ppy / 2005.04.14 11:31am PST