- From: Carine Bournez <carine@w3.org>
- Date: Fri, 6 Jul 2007 10:01:55 -0400
- To: Bijan Parsia <bparsia@isr.umd.edu>
- Cc: Matthias Klusch <klusch@dfki.de>, public-sws-ig@w3.org
Hi Bijan, all, On Fri, Jul 06, 2007 at 02:22:13PM +0100, Bijan Parsia wrote: > If I may present a slightly different take: > > When SAWSDL finishes, what's next for SWS at the W3C? > > I.e., is it just evangalism now? Is there future standards work? Do > we need/want an XG? A WG? To do what exactly. > > WSDL also went to recommendation(finally! whew!), and WS-Policy is > proceeding. So, swsers...what do we want/think should be done? good question for sure :) > It is reasonable, I think. There are three possibilities, I think: > > 1) Have a meeting at the Tech plenary in Nov in Boston. > Pros: lots of w3c interaction; SW-IG had meetings to good effect > there > Cons: Awkward wrt ISWC; far for a lot of major SWS players; may be > too late to get a slot > http://www.w3.org/2002/09/TPOverview.html It is certainly possible to have a BOF there but that means a short meeting for a small subset of SWS people. Maybe not sufficient. > 2) Have a workshop associated with a conference (such as ISWC) > Pros: some flexibility; if we pick the right conference, lots of > players might go; ISWC folks might host; there are WS conferences > that could produce some synergy > Cons: Often academically biased; ISWC itself is far for lots of > people and the formal workshop application is closed so would have to > do something ad hoc You may want to contact some W3C SW folks there in any case, to get the "non-WS" impression. > 3) Have a W3C follow up workshop to the one on Frameworks for > Semantics in WS: > http://www.w3.org/2005/01/ws-swsf-cfp > Pros: It's been two years; often a lot of W3C engagement; flexible > (even could be coloed with a conference) > Cons: Needs a host; don't know if the W3C would be interested I think we could organize a second workshop after the XG terminates its work, there could be a presentation of results and then a debate. I also hope to see more discussion in this mailing list in the next few weeks/months. -- Carine Bournez -+- W3C Europe
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