[ontolog] Member Conference Call - Thu 2007-09-27

• There being no scheduled special event today, this is expected to be a regular operations planning and review meeting for active members of the Ontolog community, if members of the community has items they put on the agenda. ... The meeting is open to all who are interested, RSVP (offline to peter.yim@cim3.com) appreciated.

• the meeting is subject to cancellation, one hour before start time, if we do not reach a minimum of 3 expected attendees, or if it is deemed that we don't have issues interesting enough to warrant taking up people's time for the call.

Conference Call Details

• Date: Thursday, Sep. 27, 2007
• Start Time: 10:30am PDT / 1:30pm EDT / 6:30pm BST / 17:30 GMT/UTC
  • ref: World Clock
• Expected Call Duration: ~1.0 hours
• Dial-in Number:
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• RSVP to peter.yim@cim3.com appreciated.

• Shared-screen support (VNC session), if applicable, will be started 5 minutes before the call at: http://vnc2.cim3.net:5800/
  • view-only password: "ontolog"

• This session, like all other Ontolog events, is open to the public. Information relating to this session is shared on this wiki page: http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2007_09_27

Attendees

• Attended:
  • Peter P. Yim
  • Tim West (Innodata-isogen)
  • Bob DuCharme (Innodata-isogen)
  • Steve Ray

• Expecting:

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

• Regrets:

Agenda Ideas

(please insert your ideas below)

• ...

Agenda & Proceedings

1) Welcome & confirmation of agenda

• Peter P. Yim 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, 4-Oct-2007 - Dr. Tania Tudorache from the Stanford Protégé team was our invited speaker. She presented a talk on: "Collaborative Ontology Development in Protégé." Please refer to details on the session wiki page at: ConferenceCall_2007_10_04 ... Audio archives of the session is now available!   
  • Thursday, 11-Oct-2007 - Dr. Timothy Redmond, Chief Architect of Protégé from the Stanford Center for Biomedical Informatics Research (formerly Stanford Medical Informatics) and Mr. Peter Yim, CEO of CIM3 were our invited speakers. They presented on: "CODS - a Collaborative Ontology Development Service & Infrastructure" and "Distributed Ontology Development with Protégé." Please refer to details on the session wiki page at: ConferenceCall_2007_10_11 ... Audio archives of the session is now available!   
  • Thursday, 18-Oct-2007 - Dr. Matthew West and Dr. Leo Obrst presented the 11th session in the "Database And Ontology" series - Dr. Alan Wu from Oracle's Database Semantic Technologies Group was our invited speaker. This is the second of the two-part presentation from Oracle and was focused more on Oracle's OWL Inferencing implementation. Dr. Wu's talk was entitled: "A Scalable RDBMS-Based Inference Engine for RDFS/OWL." Please refer to details at the session wiki page, at: ConferenceCall_2007_10_18 ... Audio archives of the session is now available!   

• Other upcoming events of interest - see: RelevantEventsOfInterest2007

• on deck are - more talk in the DatabaseAndOntology series, Mark Musen (2007.12.06), Natasha Noy (2007.12.13-TBC), John Bateman, DeborahMcGuinness, ... etc. etc.
  • Ken Baclawski: also on Uncertainty & Decision Support, possibility to grow that into a mini-series
  • Ontolog-NASA mini-series still pending first organizing committee conference call (2007.09.25) and launch date (2007.10.25 or 2007.11.01)

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.

• Status of ProtegeKIF project work.

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

• status of OntologTaxoThesaurus project work

• status of OntologyDrivenApplications compilation work.

• status of the ONION project startup.

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

• Planning team report

8) Key Issues discussion:

• Steve and Peter discussed about the prospects of an Ontology Summit for Spring 2008
  • Steve will come back to us on plans from NIST
  • Peter suggested that we start early, and to get community input and suggestions on the main theme of next year's summit

10) Sponsorship and funding.

11) Other business.

• Steve: Oct. 25~26 NIST/SMI/NIH workshop on "Methods and Metrics on Ontology Evaluation" - invitation only

• Peter showed Tim and Bob around the Ontolog-cwe and invited them to join the community

12) Next meeting date and adjourn

• Our next meeting/call will be the Thu 2007.10.04. Details will be at ConferenceCall_2007_10_04 ... talk to you then!

• this call session adjourned 11:06 am PDT

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