- From: <hhalpin@w3.org>
- Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2009 14:45:12 -0400 (EDT)
- To: public-rdb2rdf-wg@w3.org
The first meeting is always the most difficult due to everyone getting used to
things, but here are our minutes! Will link to from homepage once approved
after next meeting.
HTML:
http://www.w3.org/2009/10/15-RDB2RDF-minutes.html
RDB2RDF Working Group Teleconference
15 Oct 2009
[2]Agenda
[2]
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-rdb2rdf-wg/2009Oct/0002.html
See also: [3]IRC log
[3] http://www.w3.org/2009/10/15-RDB2RDF-irc
Attendees
Present: (possibly incomplete) orri, seema, souri, rcygnaik, lima,
marcelo, Joseph_Scheuhammer, hhalpin, mhausenblas, angelo,
nuno, jsequeda, Ahmed, whalb, howard, iv_an_ru, soeren
Chair
Ahmed
Scribe
hhalpin
Contents
* [4]Topics
1. [5]"Introduction"
2. [6]"Schedule"
3. [7]"Future Meetings"
* [8]Summary of Action Items
_________________________________________________________
Introduction
Introduction round
soeren: linked data background, Triplify, one of the DBpedia
founders
cygri: DERI, main developer of D2RQ, interested in linked data,
information integration
Souri and Seema: we are interested in RDB2RDF here at Oracle as we
have a lot of relational data as you can guess
Orri: from OpenLink, long time doing DB federation, etc., main
contributor to linked data community
<hhalpin> scribe: hhalpin
Orri is presenting next week
From OpenLink
Ahmed: from HP
... interests in integration
... works in RDF
Angelo: new to this group
... postdoc at OKKAM project
... co-ordinating all the work for use-cases, interest in entity
identifiers for linked data
... automatically extraxting entities from relational data
... automatically identify these entities.
... background in multimedia IR
Howard: from Metamotix
... been in semantic technology world for 8-9 years
... developed middleware integration platform.
... integrating structured and semi-structured data
Howard is presenting in early november.
Wolfgang: Working in Austria
... has but Eurostat as Linked Data
... did work in XG
Harry: W3C Fellow from Uni. of Edinburgh
... will be helping with contacts
... co-chairing with Ahmed.
... participated in XG
<mhausenblas>
[9]http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-rdb2rdf-wg/2009Oct/000
9.html
[9]
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-rdb2rdf-wg/2009Oct/0009.html
Nuno: Working in DERI
... hetereogenous sources, working on XSPARQL
... extending XQuery.
Ashok is on vacation.
Ivan: dialing in...
Juan: a Uni. Ph.D. student at University of Austin
... was part of XG
... creating Ultrawrap, RDB2RDF system
... takes advantage of existing infrastructure
... want to learn mappings
... uses data-mining, linked data for bioinformatics by end of year
Michael: Informal meeting at ISWC
... First face-to-face officially will be later
Juan: I'll be at ISWC.
Seema: From Oracle
... located in new hampshire
... working in semantic group
Marcelo: ... Marcelo Arenas, from catholic university of chile
... most in database theory
... we have a group that works in RDF
... have done semantics for SPARQL, adding navigation, dealing with
RDFS and OWL
... we want to work on this problem.
<scribe> ACTION: hhalpin to re-send Marcelo invited expert form
[recorded in
[10]http://www.w3.org/2009/10/15-RDB2RDF-minutes.html#action01]
<trackbot> Created ACTION-5 - Re-send Marcelo invited expert form
[on Harry Halpin - due 2009-10-22].
Li Ma: formerly of IBM, will be joining the group as Invited Expert.
scribe: participated in XG.
... worked for more 5 years
... was at IBM, now working on integrating databases
... have a paper at this year ISWC that describes our mapping
approach
Schedule
Ahmed: spend a month and a half doing fact-finding on implementation
work.
... next week is OpenLink and Orri
... will have anyone to post the links
<mhausenblas> see
[11]http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/rdb2rdf/wiki/Initial_Round_of_Presenta
tions
[11] http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/rdb2rdf/wiki/Initial_Round_of_Presentations
Ahmed: just send them to harry to post
... a week if not more the presentation
... we also have D2R, Metamotix on the queue.
... we can still fit them in.
... send them in.
... give a paragraph of what group has done
<metatomix> Also joined this group is Samir Batla. Batla has been
leveraging ST for about 8-9 years in a solutions architect role -
having been with Cerebra, Inc, Siderean Software and now Metatomix.
Ahmed: sometime in Nov we will be done with that piece
... we need to pin down some of our goals.
... listed some of these in the announcment
... six items:
... we hope to have this by march
Michael: let's have discussions on the mailing list
<mhausenblas> ... and use the Wiki to collect it
Michael: wiki is easier than mailing list
... for keeping track of some things.
Ahmed: How about things we end up not pursuing?
Michael: We will do a use-case and requirements.
Ahmed: any proposals for improving?
Michael: flag certain features
... to prioritize
<scribe> ACTION: mhausenb to add material to the Wiki [recorded in
[12]http://www.w3.org/2009/10/15-RDB2RDF-minutes.html#action03]
<trackbot> Created ACTION-6 - Add material to the Wiki [on Michael
Hausenblas - due 2009-10-22].
Juan: I'd like to present
don't worry, I can fix things!
Future Meetings
Juan: Do we want future meetings at this time?
... doesn't work for me too well.
Ahmed: Hard to make everyone happy
... Juan, can you switch schedules?
Juan: I can lose this time.
Ahmed: I hope we can keep this time.
<scribe> ACTION: hhalpin to send email out to europeans explaining
daylight savings time. [recorded in
[13]http://www.w3.org/2009/10/15-RDB2RDF-minutes.html#action04]
<trackbot> Created ACTION-7 - Send email out to europeans explaining
daylight savings time. [on Harry Halpin - due 2009-10-22].
Ahmed: let's send e-mails out about the time
Michael: do we want to say each other's names?
Ahmed: try to use first name
... I think we are done.
... Orri is next week!
... thanks everyone, triplify and D2RQ are afterwards.
... minutes will be made available.
... next meeting we will send tomorrow.
... Next time, to log into IRC beforehand.
... will start precisely 5 minutes later.
bye!
Meeting Adjourned
<marcelo> I lost the phone connection
trackbot, end meeting
Summary of Action Items
[NEW] ACTION: hhalpin to re-send Marcelo invited expert form
[recorded in
[14]http://www.w3.org/2009/10/15-RDB2RDF-minutes.html#action01]
[NEW] ACTION: hhalpin to send email out to europeans explaining
daylight savings time. [recorded in
[15]http://www.w3.org/2009/10/15-RDB2RDF-minutes.html#action04]
[NEW] ACTION: mhausenb to add material to the Wiki [recorded in
[16]http://www.w3.org/2009/10/15-RDB2RDF-minutes.html#action03]
[End of minutes]
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