RE: Meeting Summary - 05 March 2007

Hi Christian,  

Thanks for posting the list of sorts of capabilities you were thinking about.

You're right that some of these might be considered out of scope for the DDWG itself, but I think most are actually potentially in-scope for parts of the ontology that might be used by other folks.

Network capabilities (bearer, bandwidth etc...) are of interest to the OMA group that is also involved in work associated with the ontology. In fact it's one of their major use cases, so I'd expect to see those characteristics appear in the ontology. It remains to be seen whether DDWG wants these too.

Adaptation capabilities, transcoding ability etc. is an area we've not looked at in any of the groups involved with the ontology as far as I can recall. That's probably just because, historically, browsers and devices haven't been able to do this. That is changing and I can see this being an area of potential interest going forward. 

Thanks for bringing these up. 

Best wishes
Rhys

-----Original Message-----
From: public-ddwg-request@w3.org [mailto:public-ddwg-request@w3.org] On Behalf Of Christian Timmerer (ITEC)
Sent: 06 March 2007 13:23
To: 'Jo Rabin'; public-ddwg@w3.org
Cc: christian.timmerer@itec.uni-klu.ac.at
Subject: RE: Meeting Summary - 05 March 2007



Thanks Jo, Rhys for clarification.

> So if you have specific things in mind ref proxies and gateways it 
> would be useful to know.
[Christian Timmerer (ITEC)] ... network capabilities (e.g., avail. bw), de-/encoding (e.g., JPEG, MPEG-4, etc.) capabilities, and adaptation capabilities in general (e.g., transcoding from MPEG-2 to MPEG.4, grayscaling, temporal/spatial scaling).

This might be useful for providing adaptation services within the delivery path enabling device independence at the end user device. However, I agree with you that this might be out of scope of this WG.

Thanks anyway...
Best regards,
 -Christian

>
> Thanks
> Jo
>
> [2] http://www.w3.org/2006/09/mwi-ddwg2-charter
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: public-ddwg-request@w3.org [mailto:public-ddwg-request@w3.org]
> On
> > Behalf Of Rhys Lewis
> > Sent: 06 March 2007 09:44
> > To: Christian Timmerer (ITEC); Michael(tm) Smith; public-ddwg@w3.org
> > Cc: Rotan Hanrahan; Cedric Kiss
> > Subject: RE: Meeting Summary - 05 March 2007
> >
> >
> > Hi Christian,
> >
> > It's an interesting question. I'd just point out that the DIWG
> Glossary
> > [1], where we expect to add the definitions about device 
> > description, already includes other terms that might be appropriate 
> > for other
> parts
> of
> > the delivery chain. This includes definitions relating to content 
> > adaptation.
> >
> > DIWG elected to restrict the definition of device to an end user
> device.
> > That seems to match current usage of the term and the scope of the
> DDWG
> > work items.
> >
> > If you have comments about definitions for parts of the delivery
> chain
> > other than the end user device, or requests for new ones, it might 
> > be worth considering posing them to DIWG, since that is where that 
> > work
> tends
> > to happen.
> >
> > Best wishes
> >
> > Rhys Lewis, chair DIWG
> >
> > [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/di-gloss/
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: public-ddwg-request@w3.org [mailto:public-ddwg-request@w3.org]
> On
> > Behalf Of Christian Timmerer (ITEC)
> > Sent: 06 March 2007 09:10
> > To: 'Michael(tm) Smith'; public-ddwg@w3.org
> > Cc: 'Rotan Hanrahan'; 'Cedric Kiss';
> christian.timmerer@itec.uni-klu.ac.at
> > Subject: RE: Meeting Summary - 05 March 2007
> >
> >
> >
> > Dear Michael,
> >
> > >
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> > > Definition of "Device Description"
> > >
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> > >   - We have agreement that we can't start building an ontology
> > >     until we have a common understanding of "device description"
> > >
> > >   - We seem to have agreement about the need to make the
> > >     definition of "device description" more generic than just
> > >     being limited to the delivery of a web page, but instead to
> > >     any aspect, but with the DDWG as a group focusing on the
> > >     specific aspect that has to do with adaptation.
> > >
> > >   RESOLVED: Do one more iteration on a proposal what is meant by
> > >   "device" and "device description" and send out for public
> > >   discussion by end of this week.
> > [Christian Timmerer (ITEC)] From my point of view the current
> definition
> > of device [1] is limited to end user devices. I'm wondering whether
> DDWG
> > will extend this definition to any apparatus along the delivery path
> that
> > serves the overall aim of device independence. I know there exists
> terms
> > like proxy or gateway but there is a need for describing them as
> well,
> > e.g., for adaptation purposes.
> >
> > I'm looking forward to the proposal by the end of this week.
> >
> > Thank you.
> > Best regards,
> >  -Christian
> >
> > [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/di-gloss/
> >
> >
> > >
> > >
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> > > Starting the ontology work
> > >
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> > >    We're using the Protege application and need to understand how
> > >    to break up Protege projects for group work.
> > >
> > >
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> > > Reports from editors.
> > >
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> > >   - Ecosystem: we had a contribution related to this on the
> > >     internal mail list and are continuing to discuss it
> > >   - We made some updatet to the wiki (uploaded "Top-ten
> > >     properties" on wiki)
> > >   - responded to OMA
> > >   - API and structure have not started yet
> > >
> > >
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> > > Attendees
> > >
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> > >   Pontus Carlsson (Drutt) [scribe]
> > >   Martin Jones (Volantis)
> > >   Andrea Trasatti (M:Metrics/WURFL)
> > >   Cedric Kiss (W3C)
> > >   Kevin Smith (Vodafone)
> > >   Rafael Casero (SATEC)
> > >   Rotan Hanrahan (MobileAware)
> > >   Jo Rabin (dotMobi)
> > >   Rodrigo Garcia (CTIC)
> > >   Nacho Marin (CTIC)
> > >   Michael(tm) Smith (W3C) [late]
> >
> >
> >
> >
>

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