Conference Call Details

• Date: Thursday, May 3, 2007
• Start Time: 10:30am PDT / 1:30pm EDT / 6:30pm BST / 17:30 GMT/UTC
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Attendees

• Attended:
  • Ken Baclawski
  • Peter P. Yim
  • Doug Holmes

• Expecting:

... (please insert your name above or RSVP by e-mailing <peter.yim@cim3.com> offline)

• Regrets:
  • Bob Smith (Business Travel)

Agenda Ideas

• postmortem and follow-up actions from the Ontology Summit 2007 face-to-face
• possibly: explore collaboration with OASIS Reference Architecture community - http://ontolog.cim3.net/forum/ontolog-forum/2007-04/msg00258.html

... (please insert your ideas below)

Agenda & Proceedings

1) Welcome & confirmation of agenda

• Ken Baclawski 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 new Ontolog community members

4) Upcoming meeting & event schedule (near future)

• Scheduled Ontolog Events:
  • Thursday, 12-April-2007 - Dr. Matthew West presented the 6th Event in the "Database And Ontology" Mini-Series - Mr. Edward Barkmeyer from NIST was our invited speaker and gave a talk on "Ontologies as the Next Generation Information Models" ... Please refer to details at the session wiki page, at: ConferenceCall_2007_04_12 ... Audio archives of the session is now available!   

• Other upcoming events of interest - see: RelevantEventsOfInterest2007

• on deck are - more talk in the DatabaseAndOntology series, Bill Andersen, Mark Musen,DeborahMcGuinness, John Bateman, ... etc. etc.
  • Ken Baclawski: also on Uncertainty & Decision Support, possibility to grow that into a mini-series

5) Communications, logistics, & work protocols issues

• Ken will try to come up with ideas on how to grab people's attention on upcoming events

6) Follow-ups from previous calls

• postmortem on Ontology Summit 2007 - see item 8 below.

7) Current Project Status Report

• Current Project Status Review:
  • Ontology Summit 2007 - successfully concluded
  • DatabaseAndOntology mini-series - a few talks already lined up
  • OntologyMeasurementEvaluation mini-series - possibly concluded, but need Steve Ray to confirm

• Status CctRepresentation and UblOntology project work - skipped

• Status of ProtegeKIF project work - skipped

• status of NHIN-RFI & Health-Ont project work - skipped

• status of OntologTaxoThesaurus project work - skipped

• status of OntologyDrivenApplications compilation work
  • Ken Baclawski, Denise Bedford and Bob Smith would want to see some of the summit survey results incorporated into this project

• status of the ONION project startup - skipped

• UBL liaison report - skipped
• SICoP / ONTAC liaison report - skipped
• NCOR liaison report - skipped

• Planning team report - see item 8c below

8) Key Issues discussion:

• Postmortem on Ontology Summit 2007 - ref:
  • the organizing committee postmortem - http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?OntologySummit2007/OrganizingCommitteeMeeting_2007_05_01#nid10UN
  • Postmortem post: http://ontolog.cim3.net/forum/ontology-summit/2007-05/msg00003.html
  • Post-F2F-post: http://ontolog.cim3.net/forum/ontology-summit/2007-04/msg00160.html

• What went well?
  • Doug / Ken: everything seemed to have gone really well
  • many communities were engaged and people conceived
  • the goals seemed ambitious, surprised that so much got achieved
  • the ability to accept dynamically evolving material into workshop was great! ... much more exciting than a conference that's planned six months in advance.

• What needs improvement?
  • summit goal of "inclusiveness" got missed by some, especially in the beginning
  • breakout groups and team assignments could have improved if planned ahead (but then, it does depend on the group dynamics at the time)

• What will we do differently next time? ... how? ...

• Follow-up action:
  • Leo: will ping Nicola Guarino about doing a journal paper for "Applied Ontology"
  • Olivier: would be nice to do an academic paper ... anyone?
  • Ken: good idea to do a write-up and push it to wikipedia

9) New project proposals

• a call is out from Duane Nickull for collaboration between this community and the SOA community in there "Reference Architecture" effort, which we hope, will be ontology enabled. See: http://ontolog.cim3.net/forum/ontolog-forum/2007-05/msg00010.html
  • please respond to the above thread, or e-mail Duane Nickull and Peter P. Yim if you are interested.

10) Sponsorship and funding - skipped

11) Other business - skipped

12) Next meeting date and adjourn

• Our next meeting/call will be the Thu 2007.05.10, with Tatiana Malyuta speaking on the 7th session of the DatabaseAndOntology mini-series. Details at: ConferenceCall_2007_05_10 ... talk to you then!

• this call session adjourned 11:36am PDT

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