Re: minutes -> wiki magic?

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[You write about perhaps using the scribe tools OWL-WG is using]

Sure, I'd be happy to have you guys as the second users.  (Eric just
grabbed me in the hall to talk about it.)

Is your wiki up and running?   

Where in web space do you want minutes to appear?

For OWL, the chatlogs, which start as IRC logs and are then cleaned up
are named like:
      
    http://www.w3.org/2007/OWL/wiki/Chatlog_2009-02-23

and the formatted minutes are named like this:

    http://www.w3.org/2007/OWL/meeting/2009-02-23

You'll also need a wiki page like:

    http://www.w3.org/2007/OWL/wiki/Participants2

which doesn't exactly match the other databases of participants because:
      - it needs to list all the irc names used for people which
        can not be derived by the algorithm
      - it needs to list everyone who has attended any meeting,
        including guests and part-participants

(One of the current bugs in the system is around the handling of the
participant list.  The list really needs to have a transaction-log
style, so that we can tell who the participants (really "attendees")
were at any given point in time.  If that list changes later, then a
name might BECOME ambiguous after-the-fact, which would make old minutes
harder to work with.  So, for now you can use the Participants2 style,
and expect at some point we'll have to upgrade this to a transaction-log
style.)

BTW, the script has a clear object model of MeetingEvents which could be
dumped in RDF/XML easily.  I was going to dump them all into virtuoso at
one point, but never quite got there.  Of course I'm not sure it would
be socially good to have it easy to datamine the meeting records.

     -- Sandro

Received on Tuesday, 24 February 2009 16:59:25 UTC