Re: organizing the state of the art document

Hi Paul & all

I agree on the focus, in view of the ultimate goal of the group which 
is, in my understanding, to provide recommendations on the opportunity 
for a W3C WG -- and IMO this can only be based on technology gap 
analysis wrt requirements.

Associating a task force to each /dimension/ may be a bit too 
fine-grained, maybe? the idea is good but management can be a concern.  
Maybe dimension group to start with, to see where it goes?  At any rate, 
personally I am interested in management and some aspects of use

--Paolo


>  Hi All,
>
> It sounded like we wanted to continue this discussion from the phone 
> call. I wanted to throw out a recommendation.
>
> First, I think it's not apparent what the goal of this document is. My 
> suggestion is, since there already exist several good reviews of the 
> state of the art, that instead we should focus on how existing 
> technologies meet the user requirements and the subsequent technical 
> requirements these pose. This is a bit different than a review because 
> it focuses more on the what's missing in terms of technology to meet 
> the requirements for provenance on the web.
>
> Given that goal, I would suggest to merge the two approaches that were 
> brought up on the last telecon.
>
> We should aim to develop a matrix that shows how different 
> technologies meet the technical requirements that we've gathered.
>
> I would suggest that each provenance dimension have a task force that 
> is responsible for listing the technologies and requirements for each 
> dimension and then recruiting people expert in each technology to 
> write how this technology fits with the requirements. For example, I 
> would expect someone like Paulo to give a good response for PML, or  
> James on DBNotes. We could also approach people outside the group to 
> fill out a form about their technology.  It would be important that 
> some text would be attached to give justification for how the 
> technology meets a requirement. The task force would then be 
> responsible for integrating this text.
>
> Anyway, that's my proposal: focus on technology meeting requirements, 
> task forces ensuring that the matrix gets filled out with proper 
> justfication.
>
> Thoughts?
>
> Paul
>
>

Received on Wednesday, 21 April 2010 14:50:14 UTC