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Conference Call Details

  • Date: Thursday, May 31, 2007
  • Start Time: 10:30am PDT / 1:30pm EDT / 6:30pm BST / 17:30 GMT/UTC
  • Expected Call Duration: ~1.0 hours
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Attendees

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Agenda Ideas

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Agenda & Proceedings

1) Welcome & confirmation of agenda

2) Appointment of secretary to take minutes

3) Roll-call of participants

  • Welcome to new Ontolog community members

4) Upcoming meeting & event schedule (near future)

  • Scheduled Ontolog Events:
    • Thursday, 28-Jun-2007 - We had the 8th Event in the "Database And Ontology" Mini-Series - The session was co-chaired by Dr. Matthew West and Dr. Susie Stephens. Dr. Souripriya Das and Dr. Melliyal Annamalai from Oracle were their invited speakers who gave a talk on: "Building Database Infrastructure for Managing Semantic Data". ... Please refer to details at the session wiki page, at: ConferenceCall_2007_06_28 ... Audio archives of the session is now available!   
    • Thursday, 05-Jul-2007 - Dr. Matthew West presented the 9th Event in the "Database And Ontology" Mini-Series - Chris Partridge from the BORO Center, UK was our invited speaker. He gave a talk on "Data and process revisited: ontology driving a paradigm shift in the development of business application systems." ... Please refer to details at the session wiki page, at: ConferenceCall_2007_07_05 ... Audio archives of the session is now available!   
    • Thursday, 12-Jul-2007 - Dr. Susie Stephens and Dr. Matthew West presented the 10th Event in the "Database And Ontology" Mini-Series - Dr. John Sowa from VivoMind Intelligence was be our invited speaker. Dr. Sowa gave a talk on: "Analogical Reasoning With and About Databases and Knowledge Bases". Please refer to details at the session wiki page, at: ConferenceCall_2007_07_12 ... Audio archives of the session is now available!    (this is still tentative)

5) Communications, logistics, & work protocols issues

6) Follow-ups from previous calls

7) Current Project Status Report

  • Current Project Status Review:
  • Status CctRepresentation and UblOntology project work - no update
  • status of the ONION project startup - no update
  • UBL liaison report - no update
  • SICoP / ONTAC liaison report - no update
  • NCOR liaison report - no update
  • Planning team report - see item 8c below

8) Key Issues discussion:

  • an effort to collaboratively develop a "common basis"? - ref: http://ontolog.cim3.net/forum/ontolog-forum/2007-05/msg00114.html
    • a natural followup from the UpperOntologySummit
    • potential leadership could come from John F. Sowa, Pat Cassidy, ...
    • Doug: let's ping Steve Ray to see if NIST can take on the leadership to implement this
    • Ken: could collaborate with the OBO Foundary work, which is similar
    • Duane: support of registry/repository software - will find out more in a meeting tomorrow
      • Peter: this would complement well with the CIM3 offer on hardware/infrastructure
    • Duane: we could set up a registry/repository, then define roles and call for volunteers ...
    • Peter & Duane will need to have a discussion (offline initially) to clarify IPR issues
    • All: We should try to report this back to this [ontolog-forum] list, and try to get enough interest to stage a special session for discussing this, to institutionalize this as a "project", and taking this forward
  • Duane / Ken: possibility of putting some AJAX software into the wiki
    • Duane: e.g. auto-page updates
    • Duane: we could also consider the Adobe FLEX, now that it has been open-sourced
    • Ken: one of my students is working on something similar
    • Peter, Ken, Duane, Karlsruhe-folks & team members should get together in a collaboration on this
      • consider calling up another special session
  • Peter: how about a new mini-series on informal ontology - shared understanding, concept maps, dialog maps, visualization, knowledge management, ...
    • Peter: thinking of collaborating with NASA/JPL on this
  • possibilities of a session on collaborative ontology development
    • some recent progress at Stanford / Protege can be interesting
    • this could be one or two sessions ... probably in August 2007 - Peter will be championing this

9) New project proposals.

10) Sponsorship and funding.

  • no discussion

11) Other business.

  • no discussion

12) Next meeting date and adjourn

  • Our next meeting/call will be the Thu 2007.06.07, same time, mainly on Ontology Summit 2007 follow-up action review. Details will be at ConferenceCall_2007_06_07 ... talk to you then!
  • this call session adjourned 12:02 pm PDT

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minutes captured in real time on this wiki by Peter P. Yim / 2007.05.31-12:03 pm PDT

Attendees are requested to review the notes above, help clean it up, and make amendments and edits to better

reflect the proceedings of the session as they see fit (particularly where they are personally involved). =ppy