minutes of 2009-01-06 telcon

The minutes of 2009-01-06 telcon are available at:

http://www.w3.org/2009/01/06-swd-minutes.html

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Semantic Web Deployment WG
06 Jan 2009

Agenda

See also: IRC log, previous 2008-12-16
Attendees

Present
    Guus Schreiber, Ralph Swick, Diego Berrueta, Sean Bechhofer, Antoine Isaac, Ed Summers, Daniel Rubin, Alistair Miles
Regrets
Chair
    Guus
Scribe
    Alistair

Contents

    * Topics
         1. ADMIN
         2. SKOS Primer
         3. RDFa
         4. RDFa Metadata Note
         5. Recipes
         6. AOB
         7. SKOS (implementation report)
    * Summary of Action Items

<Ralph> previous 2008-12-16

<edsu> happy new year :)

<seanb>

<seanb> email with at risk feature discussion

<Ralph> Daniel: suggest getting SKOS into OWL and submitting this to BioPortal

<Antoine> http://code.google.com/p/skoseditor/

guus: welcome, happy new year
ADMIN

PROPOSED: to accept minutes of the last telecon http://www.w3.org/2008/12/16-swd-minutes.html

RESOLUTION: to accept minutes of the last telecon http://www.w3.org/2008/12/16-swd-minutes.html

guus: SKOS Reference, tom wrote the transition request, ...

ralph: did you want to send request?

guus: you can send it. the version tom made is fine. ??? substantive change, but agreed now.

sean: text available? can we see it?

<scribe> ACTION: ralph send CR transition request for SKOS [recorded in http://www.w3.org/2009/01/06-swd-minutes.html#action01]

ralph: once sent, I can cite it. will contain proposed status of language. but not necessarily final version of status, you can suggest changes. it'll take a few days for the director decision, then should be ready to publish shortly after. so we have a few days before we need to produce final doc.

<scribe> ACTION: chairs to write the CR transition request [recorded in http://www.w3.org/2008/12/16-swd-minutes.html#action11] [DONE]

guus: apart from this adminstrative issue, we can proceed

<scribe> ACTION: Ralph to report on use of RDFa metadata in Recommendations. [recorded in http://www.w3.org/2008/11/18-swd-minutes.html#action02] [DONE]

<Ralph> status of RDFa in W3C Recommendations [Ralph 2009-01-06]

ralph: answer is, not yet for recommendation. we haven't published enough CR docs or WDs with RDFa in them to be sure of no browser problems; so not yet ready to go ahead with RDFa in final recommendations.

sean: "rationale for not exluding" should be "rationale for excluding"?

ralph: yes

guus: charter extension proposal...

did steve contact you ralph?

ralph: maybe, i sent charter extension request yesterday. i expect a decision tomorrow.
SKOS Primer

guus: review from Tom, marked as done in agenda.
... followup discussion.

antoine: extensive comments from tom, impressive work. mostly editorial, about enhancing the vocabulary use and flow of document.

<Ralph> [SKOS] Comments on SKOS Primer [Tom, 2009-01-05]

antoine: many of these comments and call for changes already implemented, because tom was editing as he was writing the review.
... still many comments remaining. I've started to address them, subject of emails i wrote today.
... i'm ready to implement changes from tom as soon as feedback from tom.
... question is actually whether request from WG to publish new WD asap, compatible with tom not here. he planned to go somewhere beginning of jan?

guus: just today, tom is not available
... wrt publication, once CR request is approved, we have to send out call for implementations. it would be wise to have link to updated primer in that call. ideally we'd like to have updated primer in a week.

antoine: if tom can read mail, it will be ok. all change can be dealt with in <1 day.

ralph: would group prefer to hold CR on reference until primer is updated?
... it could take up to a week to get CR approval.
... there will be a homepage item about the CR, so would be nice to also have link to primer.
... if only matter of 3 days, prefer to publish together.

guus: middle of next week then. if you (antoine) are mainly incorporating tom's comments, tom would agree to publish.

antoine: i will implement everything still pending, prepare a draft, then will have something ready which implements every point discussed.

<scribe> ACTION: antoine to prepare revised draft of SKOS Primer ready for decision to publish as WD [recorded in http://www.w3.org/2009/01/06-swd-minutes.html#action04]

ralph: hold SKOS Reference until 13/14?

guus: yes, maybe publish 14/15
... mainly editorial, discuss comments here?

antoine: something about advertisement and lightweight things ... comment from tom about acknowledgements. .. include?

guus: yes, like to include, it's proper.

antoine: status, preamble, needs to be updated. i deal with that with ralph before next week?

ralph: let's work offline on that; my preference is that the editors' draft status reflects status of editors' draft; when i make copy to be WD then I update the status for WD, so we need another place to work on it.

antoine: slight problem with primer, styles from w3c, copy-paste from alistair, last WD you changed some formatting went away

ralph: there wouldn't have been a problem, I deleted too much

guus: let's leave it at this
RDFa

guus: nothing to report

<scribe> ACTION: Ben review RDFa Use Cases and propose transition to Group Note [recorded in http://www.w3.org/2008/09/30-swd-minutes.html#action02] [CONTINUES]
RDFa Metadata Note

<scribe> ACTION: Ralph post his comments on the editor's draft of the metadata note [recorded in http://www.w3.org/2008/11/25-swd-minutes.html#action03] [CONTINUES]

Recipes

<scribe> ACTION: Ralph to review the revised Recipes draft [recorded in http://www.w3.org/2008/12/02-swd-minutes.html#action15] [CONTINUES]

<scribe> ACTION: Ralph/Diego to work on Wordnet implementation [of Recipes implementations] [recorded in http://www.w3.org/2008/01/22-swd-minutes.html#action20] [CONTINUES]

guus:aldo has done similar RDF representation of wordnet for 3.0 version, would like to publish in similar way, but that can wait
AOB

guus: review of OWL documents
... some progress at VU, meeting, initiated by Frank Van-Harmelen
... we'll come up with a draft response
... still informal, we feel OWL 2 extensions are fine, most of them
... main problem is with presentation of material, in particular lack of use of RDF representations, either N-Triple or RDF/XML
... so people from SKOS perspective find it hard to grasp
... second problem is obscure use of OWL, sometimes OWL Full variant completely under table, but that is relevant for SKOS users
... so our comments in that direction
... may be a substantial comment, at moment not sure what SKOS user, how can look fruitfully at OWL doc
... hopefully we have more in 2-3 weeks, deadline is 23 Jan
SKOS (implementation report)

guus: report consist of two types of implementations, 1 is at least two tools that can handle SKOS, editors or "checkers"
... sean, you didn't like "validation"?

sean: yes, prefer "checker"

guus: 2 is vocabularies using SKOS, at least two vocabularies that use a construct in our reference
... this will be a data gathering excercise
... let's start with tools.
... sean you discussed protege version for skos?

<Antoine> http://code.google.com/p/skoseditor/

sean: yes, tool called skosed which is a plugin for protege 4, this is for editing skos vocabularies, so we can certainly claim that as an implementation

guus: a second implementation? work by laurens?

antoine: web service that serves SKOS data, basically wrapping up a set of functions dedicated to SKOS model, on top of RDF repository, could be evolution of SKOS API by alistair and [niki and dave]
... also browser implemented in CHOICE project, helps navigating vocabularies

edsu: I had a meeting with people in federal agencies in washington, they used a tool called synaptica, from dow jones, several agencies using it to manage controlled vocabularies, then outputting as SKOS

guus: it would be nice if we have data about these tools on the list

edsu: they gave me documentation for it at the beginning of the meeting, then took it away at end of meeting

alistair: jon phipps would want us to consider nsdl metadata registry as an implementation

<edsu> +1 to that

guus: yes, see jon's message

<Antoine> http://www.mondeca.com/index.php/en/intelligent_topic_manager

edsu: the oclc terminology services, which guy at dublin core conference told about, they have service which outputs SKOS as a format, also does zthes

antoine: diane vizine-goetz

edsu: it's on the web too

<Antoine> http://www.oclc.org/research/projects/termservices/

guus: for implementation report, we have to define a format to describe these implementations; report consists of a number of tables
... tool from simon jupp, state we can take a look at?

sean: only protege 4

antoine: link in irc 5 mins ago
... it's really cool, i'm now using it

alistair: did issue get fixed with uris?

<Ralph> Sean: do I have to regenerate the DL schema?

<Ralph> Alistair: yes

guus: one of us needs to take one of tools, then list features we'd like to describe in implementation report
... anybody willling to think about this?

sean: i can look at tool we have here

guus: if you can bootstrap this, then others can describe their tool in a similar way?

sean: another example from another spec we can look at?

guus: rdfa implementation report, owl implementation report...
... second kind of implementatino we can think of is vocabularies using SKOS, describing features of SKOS they use
... I can ask someone in my group to bootstrap this

<scribe> ACTION: guus to report on usage of SKOS in vocabularies at VU for SKOS implementation report [recorded in http://www.w3.org/2009/01/06-swd-minutes.html#action09]

guus: will be simple, URI of scheme ... list of features (SKOS constructs) being used
... nice if by end of month have some first data. Will have call for implementations as well, so people can contribute.
... at some point, need to do web search for all skos vocabs out there

<scribe> ACTION: sean to report on SKOSED for SKOS implementation report [recorded in http://www.w3.org/2009/01/06-swd-minutes.html#action10]

guus: ralph, ok to use vocabularies as implementation exampel?

ralph: yes

guus: if you come across SKOS vocabularies, post to the list

<Antoine> http://www.mondeca.com/index.php/en/intelligent_topic_manager/applications/itm_t3_terminology_thesaurus_taxonomy_metadata_dictionary

<Ralph> [anything that uses SKOS is legitimately an "implementation" in my book :) ]

antoine: link from french company, doing stuff with skos
... description of terminology management tool, bernard vatant's company, description of what they do, useful

guus: certainly, worth looking at

<Ralph> [or, if not an implementation, at least appropriate to mention in a report of implementations]

guus: ok, start looking for either tools or vocabularies that use SKOS
... any other issues?
... we are extended until 1may?

ralph: yes, request to 31 april

sean: comment about status of doc, require us to change current editors' draft?

ralph: no, i'll send you mail. i like for status of every doc we're working on to reflect status of that document. one trick we could use, editors' draft, section which has proposed status for CR; but don't like editors' draft to say in status that they are CR
... this time, few extra words, run by sean and alistair

guus: noting we now finish on 31 april, we are ready to adjourn
... assume next week we have telecon to report progress on implementation report issues and resolve on primer draft

sean: regrets for next tuesday

<Ralph> [I'm not expecting a problem with our request for a 4-month extension, but note that it hasn't actually been granted as of this moment]

guus: useful to meet to at least agree on primer
... next meeting is next week.

Summary of Action Items

[NEW] ACTION: antoine to prepare revised draft of SKOS Primer ready for decision to publish as WD [recorded in http://www.w3.org/2009/01/06-swd-minutes.html#action04]
[NEW] ACTION: guus to report on usage of SKOS in vocabularies at VU for SKOS implementation report [recorded in http://www.w3.org/2009/01/06-swd-minutes.html#action09]
[NEW] ACTION: ralph send CR transition request for SKOS [recorded in http://www.w3.org/2009/01/06-swd-minutes.html#action01]
[NEW] ACTION: sean to report on SKOSED for SKOS implementation report [recorded in http://www.w3.org/2009/01/06-swd-minutes.html#action10]

[PENDING] ACTION: Ben review RDFa Use Cases and propose transition to Group Note [recorded in http://www.w3.org/2008/09/30-swd-minutes.html#action02]
[PENDING] ACTION: Ralph post his comments on the editor's draft of the metadata note [recorded in http://www.w3.org/2008/11/25-swd-minutes.html#action03]
[PENDING] ACTION: Ralph to review the revised Recipes draft [recorded in http://www.w3.org/2008/12/02-swd-minutes.html#action15]
[PENDING] ACTION: Ralph/Diego to work on Wordnet implementation [of Recipes implementations] [recorded in http://www.w3.org/2008/01/22-swd-minutes.html#action20]

[DONE] ACTION: Ralph to report on use of RDFa metadata in Recommendations. [recorded in http://www.w3.org/2008/11/18-swd-minutes.html#action02]
[DONE] ACTION: chairs to write the CR transition request [recorded [recorded in http://www.w3.org/2009/01/06-swd-minutes.html#action02]

[End of minutes]

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