ADMIN: Agenda/Logistics - Oct 31, 2002 telecon

WEB ONTOLOGY WORKING GROUP
AGENDA/LOGISTICS
October 31, 2002

1200 US East Coast
0900 US West Coast
1700 London

Duration: 90 minutes

PHONE INFORMATION
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CHAT INFO
Simultaneous IRC Chat
irc:irc.w3.org (port 6665)
#webont

Chair: Hendler
Scribe: Libby Miller

NOTE: Oct 31, 2002 is 1 year anniversary of Web Ontology Working 
Group (1st official message from chair to the WG: 
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-webont-wg/2001Oct/0002.html)


1) ADMIN (10 min)


1.1 Roll call

Regrets:  See list archive for  regrets

1.2 Minutes previous telecon

Proposal to accept as a true record of the Oct 24 telcon:
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-webont-wg/2002Oct/0198.html

1.3 Agenda amendments

1.4 Telecon schedule

- next telecon: Nov 7 per regular schedule
- scribe for Nov 7: Lynn Thompson

1.6 Upcoming ftf meetings

- Manchester ftf - any updates
ACTION: Guus to collect info about remote access arrangements
ACTION: Ian will put up local arrangements page: Hotel info, etc.
ACTION: Dan Connolly will put up Registration page

2) ACTION ITEM REVIEW (10 min)

  Issue 5.21 "Drop disjointUnionOf"
ACTION: Chris Welty, Mike Smith, other relevant working draft
editors to update drafts.

  Issue 5.5 List syntax or semantics
ACTION: Chairs Guus and Jim: discuss this in RDF CORE, Semantic Web
Coordination

Issue I5.19 Classes-as-instances
ACTION: Guus, Frank: to move the issue forward, will write up 1-d
and 2-d views to make clearer to users.

DOCUMENT STATUS REVIEW - Test document (Carroll, de Roo)
NEW ACTION: All editors: Every new draft, apply same rule: Web Ontology
Language (OWL) and then reference version (1.1.0).
NEW ACTION: Jeremy to send out new form of rule, with version, etc.

  DOCUMENT STATUS REVIEW - Guide document (Smith et al.)
ACTION: Chris Welty to review
ACTION: Mike Smith to forward revised ontologies to Jeremy.

DOCUMENT STATUS REVIEW - Feature synopsis (McGuinness, van Harmelen)
ACTION: Guus and Frank to offer suggestions on how synopsis,
reference document should be updated about 3 languages and their
relationships.

DOCUMENT STATUS REVIEW - OWL Reference (Dean)
ACTION: Mike Dean will have new version by next telecon, Oct. 31.

  DOCUMENT STATUS REVIEW - Semantics document (Hayes, Patel-Schneider)
  ACTION: Peter will produce an outline with pointers.
(see below)

DOCUMENT STATUS REVIEW - Non-normative Appendices
XML presentation syntax (Patel-Schneider)
  ACTION: Guus to put on agenda for next week, Oct. 31, look up who
has reviewed it.

UML presentation syntax (Schreiber, Wallace)
ACTION: Chairs to put off until next telecon, Oct. 31.

Issue 5.5 List syntax or semantics
ACTION Jeremy Carroll: will move issue 5.5 forward

3) ISSUES (40 min)

3.1 - ISSUES WITH PROPOSALS FOR CLOSURE: 

Issue 4.4 extra-logical feature set
Proposal to POSTPONE:
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-webont-wg/2002Oct/0221.html

Issue 5.7 Range restrictions should not be separate URIs
ACTION Chairs: see if Ziv wishes to push Issue 5.7 or Postpone
  Jim H. has discussed w/Ziv - no specific proposal at this time
Proposal to Postpone 5.7

3.1 - ISSUES PENDING CLOSURE PROPOSALS (~ 30 min total)

Issue 5.13 Internet Media Type for OWL
application/rdf+xml vs. application/owl(+rdf?+xml?)
Discussion of issue (Connolly)
See: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-webont-wg/2002Oct/0162.html
and following thread

Issue 5.14 - Ontology versioning
ACTION: Hayes - send e-mail opposing deprecation.
Discussion of issue (Heflin)

Issue 5.18 support for unique names assumption
Discussion of issue (Hendler)
see: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-webont-wg/2002Oct/0185.html

Issue 5.19 Classes-as-instances
Discussion of issue (Guus, Frank)
ACTION Jeremy: to do test case for 5.19
[includes discussion of names for OWL subsets]

Issue: hasValue
Discussion of issue (McGuinness)
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-webont-wg/2002Oct/0196.html


4) DOCUMENT STATUS REVIEW (20 min)

Guide (Smith, 5 min)
Status Update

Semantics  (Peter P-S, 15 min)
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-webont-wg/2002Oct/0204.html


5) AOB (0-5 min)


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