Re: Re: Minutes from Feb 15 Telcon

* Juan Sequeda <juanfederico@gmail.com> [2011-02-16 13:54-0600]
> Per my previous email on a different thread, I was going through in a very
> detailed manner the current version of the denotational semantics and had
> several questions. Then by coincidence, Alex sent a new update while I was
> working on this. If I would have only waited a few hours...
> 
> Anyways, I'll try to look over this *soon*. Marcelo is on vacation till Feb
> 28.
> 
> Juan Sequeda
> +1-575-SEQ-UEDA
> www.juansequeda.com
> 
> 
> On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 1:32 PM, ashok malhotra
> <ashok.malhotra@oracle.com>wrote:
> 
> > Let's ask the Direct Mapping editors what they think of this plan?
> > Eric, Juan, Marcelo?

i've looked over the material and feel alexandre is extremely qualified to write up the denotational semantics.
so, +1

> > All the best, Ashok
> >
> >
> > On 2/16/2011 10:28 AM, Alexandre Bertails wrote:
> >
> >> All,
> >>
> >> On Tue, 2011-02-15 at 10:09 -0800, ashok malhotra wrote:
> >>
> >>> Minutes from Feb 15 Telcon are available at
> >>> http://www.w3.org/2011/02/15-rdb2rdf-minutes.html
> >>>
> >> During the last call, we decided to publish very quickly the snapshots
> >> of both the R2RML and Direct Mapping specifications. Some people were
> >> reluctant because not that much happened in the Direct Mapping
> >> document [1].
> >>
> >> I actually worked a lot recently on the denotational RDF semantics. I
> >> have a version available at [2] (extracted from LaTeX). I also worked
> >> a lot on the "no-hierarchy" branch [3] of the FeDeRate repository so
> >> that the code reflects perfectly the maths. It's already taking into
> >> account the [[ simplest approach ]] [4] we discussed about the
> >> hierarchy table.
> >>
> >> With the approval of the Working Group and of the editors, I'll be
> >> happy to contribute this work to the Working Draft so that the
> >> community can react on a far better specification. These are
> >> significant improvements that will have to be included anyway.
> >>
> >> I can do the work *this week* with the help of Eric, who has already
> >> reviewed my work. So this can be part of the snapshot we agreed to
> >> publish.
> >>
> >> Alexandre Bertails.
> >>
> >> [0] http://www.w3.org/2011/02/15-rdb2rdf-irc.html#T18-01-25
> >> [1] http://www.w3.org/2011/02/16-DM-denotational-rdf-semantics
> >> [2] https://dvcs.w3.org/hg/FeDeRate/rev/0407570a9826
> >> [3] http://www.w3.org/2011/02/15-rdb2rdf-irc.html#T17-54-13
> >>
> >>  Request to attendees:  when you join, please indicate your presence by
> >>> entering in IRC:
> >>> present+: YourName
> >>>
> >>> This will get your name in the minutes.
> >>>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >

-- 
-ericP

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