ADMIN: Agenda for December 12 telecon

WEB ONTOLOGY WORKING GROUP
AGENDA/LOGISTICS
December 12, 2002

1200 US East Coast
0900 US West Coast
1700 London
0200 Tokyo (next day)

Duration: 90 minutes

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Chair: Jim Hendler
Scribe: Volunteer needed


1) ADMIN (15 min)

1.1 Role Call

Regrets: Schreiber (others reported in WG archive)

1.2 Approval of Minutes of Dec 5 call

PROPOSED to accept the following as a true record of the Dec 5
telecon:
http://www.w3.org/2002/12/05-webont-irc


1.3 Agenda Amendments


1.4   Telecon Schedule

Next telecon: December 19
Scribe:   TBD

Question: should we cancel Dec 26 telecon?


1.5  F2F Meeting Manchester

Registration page:
http://cgi.w3.org/Register/selectUser.pl?_w3c_meetingName=WebontManchester

Local arrangements page:
http://wonderweb.semanticweb.org/mcr-f2f.shtml

Short discussion of plan for f2f: Hendler


1.6 Report on Web Ontology Working Group Extension
AC Vote period closed.  24 votes cast - 23 approve, 1 abstain
Information passed on to W3M for decision
If/when extension granted, members not yet re-enrolled will be informed

1.7 Webont schedule

FTI: Current schedule:
- LC to start directly after Man ftf (around Jan 15)
- LC period 3-6 weeks
- Man ftf and LC period to ne used by WG to gather implementation
    experiences
- odds are low that a WebOnt ftf is required in March at Tech Plenary


2. ISSUES (60 min)

Link to issues list:
http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/WebOnt/webont-issues.html

2.1  Pending updates:

ISSUE 5.14 Versioning Closed Dec. 12
closing text at:
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-webont-wg/2002Dec/0075.html
(Versioning needs to go into the reference and maybe Guide documents)

2.2 ACTIONS wrt. resolved issues

ACTION Chris Welty will work on getting "The meaning of
owl:ontology" explained better in Guide, other editors will see
if their documents need changing (not obvious they do).

ACTION Jeremy to generate test Cases for 5.5. List Syntax or Semantics

ACTION Jeff Heflin will produce test cases for owl:imports
See also message from Jeremy Carroll:
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-webont-wg/2002Nov/0228.html

ACTION DanC to provide wording
[Concerns Issue 5.9 - malformed D+O restrictions (closed)
Dan would like to amend the proposal with some clear instructions to the
guide that says "Don't do that".  Dan was actioned to write up a few
sentences for the guide.]

ACTION: Deb/Change feature doc in accordance with 5.19 resolution
(using MikeS's text)
ACTION: MikeDean/update reference appropraitely for three
sublanguages
ACTION: Deb/Change features for three sublanguages


3.2 OPEN issues

[We have five open issues left]

** Issue 5.8 - datatypes

Peter's proposal
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-webont-wg/2002Nov/0265.html

Comment from Jeremy:
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-webont-wg/2002Nov/0278.html

Chair's decision on part 4 of this proposal (out of scope)
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-webont-wg/2002Dec/0104.html

** Issue 5.13 - Internet media type for OWL

ACTION: chairs, to ask Jonathan Borden re: wording to close 5.13 - DONE

Proposal to close  (As per last week's request for changes):
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-webont-wg/2002Dec/0057.html

** Issue 15.23: add hasValue to Owl Lite

Deb's issue description
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-webont-wg/2002Oct/0196.html
plus thread

Note: The chairs see no consensus emerging on this issue, we expect 
this to go to vote at today's telecon


** Issue 5.17 - XML presentation syntax

Peter's proposal:
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-webont-wg/2002Oct/0155.html

Comments from Masahiro:
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-webont-wg/2002Nov/0290.html

Proposal: Accept the XML presentation syntax as a non-normative 
appendix to the reference document. 

** Issue 5.18 - Unique names assumption

ACTION:  Dan Connolly to write up the 'all different' proposal for Issue
5.18.
ACTION: Chair to followup with Dan C re: Unique names

Cf. also Jos's message:
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-webont-wg/2002Nov/0041.html

Note: The spirit of the WG seems to be clear -- we need a specific 
proposal to be put on the table to close this issue.


4) DOCUMENT STATUS (5-10 min)

- short review of comments received
- initiatives for getting feedback
- publication status


5) AOB (0-5 min.)




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