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= [[UpperOntologySummit]] - Organizing Committee Conference Call 2006-03-25  =

=== Call Details  ===

* Date: Saturday, Mar. 25, 2006 
* Start Time: 7:00 AM PST / 10:00 AM EST / 15:00 UTC ([http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?month=3&day=25&year=2006&hour=10&min=00&sec=0&p1=263 World Clock]) 
* Expected Call Duration: 1.5 hour 
* Dial-in Number: 1-641-696-6600 (Iowa) 
* Participant Access Code: "68656#" 

=== Attendees  ===

* Attended: 
** [[SteveRay|Steve Ray]] (Chair) 
** [[PeterYim|Peter P. Yim]] 
** [[LeoObrst|Leo Obrst]] 
** [[DagobertSoergel|Dagobert Soergel]] 
** [[PatCassidy|Pat Cassidy]] 

* Expecting: 

* Regrets: 

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

* UOS postmortem 
* What next? 
* a joint presence at FOIS-2006? - International Conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems 
** November 9-11, 2006 - Baltimore, Maryland, USA 
** see: http://www.formalontology.org/fois-2006/FOIS-2006%20Call%20for%20Papers.htm/ 
* a joint presence at OIS2006 - 1st International Workshop on Ontologizing Industrial Standards 
** 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/ 
* ...''(please add suggested items here)''... 

== Agenda & Proceedings  ==

1) Welcome & confirmation of agenda 

* [[SteveRay|Steve Ray]] took the chair and welcomed everyone. 

2) Appointment of secretary to take minutes 

* [[PeterYim|Peter P. Yim]] volunteered to take minutes 

3) Roll-call of participants - see [http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?UpperOntologySummit/OrganizingCommitteeMeeting_2006_03_25#nidLY5 above] 

4) Urgent matters to be attended to 

5) Communications, logistics, & work protocols issues 

* recording and transcripts 
** segment-2 of the main UOS meeting (2006.03.15 afternoon) already posted - see: http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?UpperOntologySummitMeeting_2006_03_15#nidLXO 
** segment-1 could have been corrupted due to some technical issues with the new equipment (now still try to salvage) 
** the taping of the other two meetings (2006.03.14 & 2006.03.15 morning) probably not complete 
** phone line also got dropped when someone kicked the polycomm power adapter off the wall 

* Lessons learned 
** someone should be monitoring the dial-in call 
** we should provide a cell-phone number for people to call, in case anything happened with the dial-in 

* hold-off on doing transcript until we have all the recordings in (we'll decide then, if it is worth the effort and cost.) 

* we discussed some of the logistics related issues 
** venue 
** registration 
** refreshments 

6) Follow-up from [[UpperOntologySummit|previous meetings]] 

7) Status review and ongoing discussions 

* UOS postmortem 
** what went well 
*** Pat / Peter: the whole series of meetings went real well (which took us, like 80% of the way even before we met in person) 
*** the mailing list discussion prior to the meeting was really help 
*** lots of credit should go to Doug 
*** the collaborative authoring, while tedious, was worth it -- ownership, a deliverable, a stake in the ground, of historical significance, ... 
** what needs improvement 
*** some of the logistics issues described earlier 
** how would we do it differently next time 
*** following-up: 
**** Steve: ongoing discussion in a collaborative work environment 
*** e-mail discussion can be improved 
**** discipline, metadata, topic-specific-threading 
**** augmented by a wiki page 

* press coverage of the event 
** So far, the only article explicitly mentioning upper ontologies is [http://www.nist.gov/public_affairs/techbeat/tb2006_0306.htm#events this NIST Techbeat article]. Our public affairs folks are sending out a more focused packet to the media targetted on the Upper Ontology Summit this coming week. 
** There are some [http://www.mel.nist.gov/msid/msidnews.htm other articles] covering Interoperability Week, but none of them picked up the ontology aspect. 

* what next? 
** update to version 1.02 of [[UpperOntologySummit/OrganizingCommitteeMeeting_2006_03_25/UosJointCommunique]] to include added endorsements (~3/31/06) 
** do we really want a next iteration of the Joint Communique? 
*** Pat: maybe one shot (to make it flow better) 
*** Steve / Leo / Peter: let's leave the historical artifact (for the UOS event it is associated with) aside ... whatever addition goes into a different document 
**** Steve: we should be aware that there is always the view of some people that this is a group of academics that only talks 
**** Dagobert: suggestion - the first page of the white paper could be your "improved version" (Pat: good idea!) 
** institutionalizing the continuing effort 
*** in what organizational form? 
**** moving this into Ontolog and to engage the larger ontolog community 
** follow-ups relating to funding 
*** NSF joint activities? 
** follow-ups relating to standradization 
*** NIST, ISO, OASIS, IEEE ... collaboration? 
** getting to work on the intended interrelated UO deliverable 
** SICoP working relationship 

*  
** Technical 
*** Ontolog community can frame some of the issues, and bring the discussion to a point that could move it toward standardization 
*** IKRIS: aligning PSL with Cyc - reach out to [[JerryHobbs|Jerry Hobbs]] and whoever else is on the content 

*  
** Convener role of Ontolog 
*** NCOR can define the directions, definitions, glossaries, maintain the quality, ... 
*** NIST: methodology, quality control, testing, ... 
*** the IEEE, ISO, ... will have to be developing the standards 
*** Ontolog can be where people can plug into 
**** Steve: possibility that Ontolog can host the registry, with NCOR doing the certification of the content 

* other discussions 
** Pat: Doug mentioned something like: it will be one man-year to express all of DOLCE in Cyc 
** putting up a glossary 
*** Leo: NCOR is also planning on something like that 
*** Steve: maybe we'll put "upper ontology" into wikipedia 
*** Pat: I'd like to start the page on "semantic interoperability" into wikipedia, there is no such page yet 

8) New Issues discussed: 

* Should we have a joint presence at OIS2006? - OIS2006: 1st International Workshop on Ontologizing Industrial Standards 
** 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/ 
* also (conflicting calendar): 
** FOIS-2006 (Nov. 9~11, 2006 Baltimore, MD) 
** International Semantic Web Conferece (Athens, Georgia) - same week 
** Leo: a Rules conference around that time too. 

9) Action Items 

* Leo will start a conversation on the [uos-convene] list to start a project and focus effort on "the whitepaper." 

10) Next meeting date and adjournment 

* Next meeting? 
** move this into Ontolog - therefore, this conversation will continue at the next Ontolog call Thu 2006.03.30 10:30am PST / 1:30pm EST 

* call adjourned 8:23 pm PST / 11:23 pm EST 

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minutes captured in real time on this wiki by [[PeterYim|Peter P. Yim]] / 2006.03.25-8:26am PST 

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