[ontolog] Member Conference Call - Thu 2005-08-04

Conference Call Details

• Subject: [ontolog] member conference call Thu 2005-08-04

• 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_08_04
• Date: Thursday, Aug. 04, 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:
  • Peter P. Yim
  • Kurt Conrad
  • Joe Chiusano
  • Mark Musen
  • Adam Pease
  • Bob Smith
  • Monica Martin
  • EMichaelMaximilien
  • Pat Cassidy
  • Nicolas Rouquette
  • Elisa Kendall

• Expecting:
  • Rex Brooks
  • ...(add your name here)...

• Regrets:
  • Duane Nickull
  • Carl Reed (in meeting all day)
  • Chris Menzel

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
• welcome to first time regular meeting participants Joe, Michael & Elisa

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
  • August 11, 2005 - Jim Hendler from the University of Maryland will be doing a "Semantic Web Q & A" with the Ontolog community - see: ConferenceCall_2005_08_11
  • Sep. 8, 2005 - Elisa Kendall - on a topic related to UML & Ontologies (proposed by: Brand Niemann / PeterYim) - confirmed
    • Elisa will post the ODM spec to the forum, and solicits the community's review and comment. (also: nice to browse through that prior to the 9/8/05 session.)
  • Sep. 25, 2005 - Jon Bosak - on a topic related to Community Governance and the OASIS Process (proposed by: Kurt Conrad / SusanTurnbull) - Jon Bosak has conflict
  • Oct. 13 2005 - Barry Smith - confirmed (BillMcCarthy)
  • Candidate Nov. 2005 session(s) and beyond -
    • John Sowa (suggested by BillMcCarthy)
    • Doug Lenat on the Cyc project (suggested by PeterYim)
    • Nicola Guarino on DOLCE, possibly also Bill Andersen or Chris Welty (suggested by Peter P. Yim & PatCassidy)
    • LarryReeker of NIST (suggested by SusanTurnbull)
    • SimonBuckinghamShum of the Compendium Institute ( ? ; ref. post from ScottLHolmes & PeterYim's reponse)
    • Jim Spohrer from IBM Almaden Services Research (further to the 2005.06.30 discussion)
  • 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
    • Rex suggestion: Professor Asuman Dogac from Middle East Technical University (Ankhara, Turkey) on Healthcare Ontologies in ebXML Web Services under their Artemis Project
      • Professor Dogac's work has also been previous recommended by Brand Niemann - see: http://colab.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ExpeditionWorkshop/TowardCoherenceInKnowledgeThroughAllThingsOntological_MakingSenseTogether_2004_12_09#nid6NZ
    • Peter also suggested that we should invite Dieter Fensel to talk to us some time
    • Rex / Peter: XMDR - Bruce Bargmeyer or someone from his XMDR team
    • Peter P. Yim / Elisa Kendall: Pat Hayes, DeborahMcGuinness
    • To be brought up (at the next discussion):
      • Chris Menzel: Bill Andersen
      • Brand Niemann / Mark Musen / Peter P. Yim: Frank Hartel (NIH/NCI)
      • Brand Niemann / Peter P. Yim: RoyRoebuck

• Scheduled Discussions for the next 2 months (DavidWhitten: maybe we should designate a moderator, and then coordinate the event from there, in a fashion similar to speaker events.)
  • August 25, 2005 discussion session - moderator: Rex Brooks - subject: Healthcare Informatics - see: ConferenceCall_2005_08_25/Prep
  • Oct. 27 2005 - Discussion on OWL/S, SWSI - FLOWS, and WSMO ... (need proper title) - Moderator: Nicolas Rouquette
    • Peter and Nicolas will work offline to setup a new page for preparing this session
    • Michael: note also WSDL-S, try Amit Sheth (of Univ. of Georgia) or someone from IBM (contact Michael)
    • candidate panelists: JohnDomingue, Michael Grüninger, ..., Nicolas Rouquette (moderator)
    • ref: http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2005_07_28#nidEDP
  • Adam: need OWL & SWRL for OWL ontologies to really be useful
  • Nicolas Rouquette -- topics lined up?
  • 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
  • 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
  • we will not schedule a technical discussion in Sep. 2005
  • candidates for November, 2005
    • • Rex: propose "Emergency Response"
      • 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, idependent of the representation" (at a level that allows us to avoid the language war)
        • Bob: as a segway into things like pi-calculus, tec.
      • Peter P. Yim: "moving from data standards to data-model- and semantic-model-driven eBusiness standards"
        • candidate panelists: Bruce Bargmeyer, Elisa Kendall, Adam Pease, Mike Daconta, Jim Hendler, Steve Ray (moderator?)
        • maybe a joint SICoP-Ontolog event, as part of another Collaborative Expedition Workshop?

• Upcoming Events of interest
  • Aug. 16, 12005 - Collaborative Expedition Workshop #43 (at NSF) - ref: http://ontolog.cim3.net/forum//ontolog-forum/2005-08/msg00007.html
  • Sep. 14, 2005 - 2nd DRM Public Forum (Washington DC) (Rex, Mark & Peter)
  • Sep. 12~16, 2005 - UN/CEFACT Forum - (Lyon, France) (Anders, Bill, Duane)
  • OASIS ebXML registry-repository webinar - Sep. or Oct. (Monica, Joe)

5) Communications, logistics, & work protocols issues

6) Follow-ups from previous calls - ITEM SKIPPED

• call/meeting to be scheduled with UN/CEFACT-CCTS WG to review Ontolog's comments [attn: Duane Nickull - ref: http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2005_03_10#nid5JB]

• possible meeting/call to follow-up with UDEF folks to review Ontolog's comments (suggested by MikeDaconta) [attn: DuaneNickull]

• Bob and Nicolas will work on the ontological lessons learned in our exercise on RegularConferenceCall scheduling

• Bob Smith: how about the DRM and its Data Sharing Toolkit and associated processes? (as presented at the Collaborative Expedition Workshoon 2005.07.19)
  • ref: http://colab.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ExpeditionWorkshop/DesigningTheDRM_DataVisibility_2005_07_19#nid2TQP
  • look to Act-II from Mike Daconta / Brand Niemann - scheduled for CEW#43 2005.08.16

7) Current Project Status Report

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

• Status of Protege-KIF project work
  • Pat is working with Holger on debugging

• status of NHIN-RFI & Health-Ont project work
  • AHIC Nomination - Aug. 5, 2005 deadline - submitted on Aug. 1, 2005 - ref. http://ontolog.cim3.net/forum//health-ont/2005-08/msg00000.html
    • Vote of thanks to Bob Smith for the motion, and for coordinating (and executing most of) the effort. (unanimous)
  • representation and paper submission to FCW Government Health IT Conference - Nov. 17~18, 2005, Washington, D.C.
    • see: http://ontolog.cim3.net/forum/health-ont/2005-07/msg00001.html
    • deadline for abstract submission is Mon 2005.08.08
      • possibility of writing up the 8/25 panel discussion and make that a community submission
  • participation in OMG/HL7 workshop 25~27 Oct. 2005 (washington DC) - abstract deadline 2005.08.12 - see: http://www.omg.org/news/meetings/HC2005/index.htm
  • National Center for Ontological Research (NCOR) Opening - Oct. 27, 2005 (Buffalo, NY) - ref: http://ontolog.cim3.net/forum//ontolog-forum/2005-08/msg00000.html

• UBL liaison report

• SICoP liaison report

• status report from Planning team

8) project work session / discussion

9) New project proposals

10) Sponsorship and funding

11) Other business

12) Next meeting date and adjourn

• call adjourned 11:39am PDT
• next call will be on Thu 2005.08.11 starting at 10:30 am PDT
  • that will be the Ontolog Invited Speaker sessioin: "Semantic Web Q&A"
  • with our guest, Professor Jim Hendler from the University of Maryland
  • See: http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2005_08_11

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minutes captured in real time on this wiki by Peter P. Yim

ppy / 2005.08.04-11:40 am PDT