WOWG: Minutes Sep 18 telecon for review

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On Wed, 2003-09-17 at 10:20, Guus Schreiber wrote:
> AGENDA  Teleconference Web Ontology Working Group
> Sep 18, 2003, 1200 (East US), 0900 (West US). 1700 (London)
> Duration: 90 min

> IRC Chat: irc:irc.w3.org (port 6665), #webont

log: http://www.w3.org/2002/05/30-webont-irc

> Chair: Guus Schreiber
Scribe: Connolly

> 1. ADMINISTRIVIA (15 min)
> 
> Role Call
> 
> Regrets: Bechofer (likely), Hendler
> See the list for last-minute regrets
regrets: Horrocks, MarwanS

Present: Guus, DanC, Sandro,
Deb Mcguinness, Jean-Francois Baget, Jeff Heflin, Mike Dean,
Yasser Alsafadi, 
Jeremy Carroll, Peter Patel-Schneider, Herman ter Horst


> PROPOSED: to accept
> http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-webont-wg/2003Sep/0163.html
> as a true record of Sept 11 telecon.

RESOLVED, with ammendment to show White, Schreiber were present


> PROPOSED to meet biweekly for 90 minutes Background: chairs have
> reconsidered this. Rationale for biweekly: it may take some time for
> the WG to go to PR/Rec due to the RDFCore dependency. We prefer less
> frequent telecons with good attendance. Agenda will be mix of
> tests/comments/schedule and outreach.

so RESOLVED.

Note: If you're wondering whether this is an on week or an
off week, stay tuned to

 1. recent meeting minutes, which ensure that meeting times
	are announced a week in advance per W3C process
 2. agendas, which come out a day in advance per W3C process

Don't rely on getting any other form of notification, please.

> Provisional telecon schedule until end of Oct:
>    Sep 25: NO telecon
>    Oct 2:  telecon
>    Oct 9:  NO telecon
>    Oct 16: telecon
>    Oct 23: NO telecon (but many of us will meet at ISWC)
>    Oct 30: telecon

On the basis of information from DebM about the DAML PI meeting,
we switched the 9 and 16 Oct dates around:

RESOLVED: to meet 2 Oct, 9 Oct, 30 Oct

NOTE WELL: no telcon 25 Sep.


> 2. OUTREACH (30-35 min)
> 
> 2.1 Publicity: status/plans
> 
> ACTION DanC: summarize OWL press coverage

Connolly apologized for being late with his action and reported
in the meeting:

W3C keeps an index of press articles about W3C, indexed
by date/publication/writer/keywords
  http://www.w3.org/Press/Articles-2003.html

e.g.

Internetnews.com [12 September]
    "Semantic Web: Out of the Theory Realm" , Michael Singer,
	W3C, RDF, XML, Semantic Web, OWL, Eric Miller

If you see articles missing from that page, you're encouraged
to let the W3C communications team know. (contact info
is, or at least should be, in the signature at the bottom
of the page.)

There has been some effort put into formalizing that index
in RDF, but that hasn't reached critical mass.

This action is now DONE.


> ACTION Guus: send overview of ISWC-related events
> DONE:
> http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-webont-wg/2003Sep/0157.html

Other outreach discussion....

JJC: I've been asked to do a presentation... do we or should we have
  a collection of presentation materials?

Whilte: There's an OWL tutorial, by Roger Costello of Mitre,
  funded by DAML. http://www.xfront.com/

DanC: I've seen the xfront thing; I'm not sure about it...

PFPS: I'm not sure about the xfront thing either...
  Ian Horrocks and Sean Bechofer and I are giving a tutorial at ISWC

Guus: both Jim and I have slides, but they're not very technical.
  I'm willing to send a pointer...

DanC: I guess I'll make an OwlTalks wiki topic and see if it grows
  [postscript: http://esw.w3.org/topic/OwlTalks]

DebM: I've used the daml.org collection
   http://www.daml.org/briefings/
  I think DAML paid for BBN to maintain it.
... you might consider that

MikeD: future funding for this is somewhat grey...
 OWL is a little broader than DAML...
 the Wiki sounds interesting...

ACTION Guus: see whether ontoweb can provide some support for OWL outreach

ACTION MikeD: see whether DAML can provide some support for OWL outreach

DanC: note W3C has to be fair about what it endorses





> 2.2 Guideline/FAQ repository for OWL
> 
> ACTION DanC: Propose Wiki be used for FAQ

Done: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-webont-wg/2003Sep/0201.html

Connolly summarized his proposal...

DebM: the FAQ/guidelines
   I've found useful are ones where people took an active ownership role...
... active recruiting etc.

Guus: I like an edited resource perhaps supplemented by the wiki; I'm considering volunteering... maybe with one or two other people...


DebM and MikeS express hesitant interest...


[... discussion of  http://c2.com/cgi-bin/wiki?CommunityLifeCycle ... ]


[... discussion of getting together at ISWC ...]


ACTION Guus: organize FAQ/guideline maintenance discussion at ISWC


> 2.3 Other possible outreach activities of WebOnt
> 
> Status OMG UML Profile for OWL:
> http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-webont-wg/2003Sep/0053.html
> 
> - short discussion/brainstorm

Guus: there are 3 proposals... anybody familiar with any of them?

DebM: I'm somewhat familiar with the sandpiper proposal

Guus: would feedback be good? what's the proper channel?
Deb: yes...
  feedback for the sandpiper proposal should go to elisa kendall kendall@sandsoft.com

Guus: Revised Submissions are due 27 October
Guus: is that when one gets chosen?

DebM: that looks likely

 [... more on OMG process... not sure I got it...]

MikeD: how much OWL do the support? e.g. subPropertyOf?

DebM: one of the things I like about the sandpiper proposal is thier support of subPropertyOf
	... I gather subProperty is under consideration for future versions of UML


Guus: do we need to review this, as a WG?

DanC: I like to keep the SemWeb CG aware of liaison issues

Guus: seems good to make sure other stds. body's work doesn't limit the use of OWL

ACTION Guus: solicit advice on reviewing OMG proposals from SemWeb CG



> 2.4 Other outreach-related actions
> 
> ACTION: Jim will report back on status of Gene Ontology
> Consortium re OWL.

CONTINUES


Guus: other connections to discuss? e.g. I'd like to discuss MPEG connection...
DanC: there's some SMPTE thing that might be relevant and urgent... sorry I'm disorganized


> 3. CR/PR ISSUES (15-25 min)
> 
> 3.1 Exit criteria
> 
> Background:
> Dan's status message: "OWL exit criteria: very close!"
> http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-webont-wg/2003Sep/0190.html
> RDF-based test result page:
> http://www.w3.org/2003/08/owl-systems/test-results-out
>
> ACTION Sandro: send email (rdf-interest, rdf-logic) about
> http://www.w3.org/2003/08/owl-systems/test-results-out, asking for
> more data

DONE: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-rdf-interest/2003Sep/0138.html


> ACTION: Jim Hendler - Report PELLET status re complete OWL Lite
> consistency checkers
> DONE:
> http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-webont-wg/2003Sep/0165.html


> ACTION: Ian Horrocks - Report Cerebra and Racer status re complete OWL Lite
> consistency checkers
> DONE:
> http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-webont-wg/2003Sep/0128.html


> ACTION: Sandro - Report reasoning status re useful subsets of OWL
> Full.

CONTINUES.


> ACTION: Jim Hendler - Check with Bijan re owl syntax checkers passing
> all tests

DONE (I think?)

> ACTION JimH: check process doc re: features at Risk

DONE.
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-webont-wg/2003Sep/0196.html


> 3.2 Comments on CR docs
> 
> Jeremy's comment on S&AS/datatype mapping rules:
> http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-webont-wg/2003Sep/0154.html
> Peter's response:
> http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-webont-wg/2003Sep/0183.html

ACTION JJC: add clarifying tests to OWL test repository
 re datatype mapping rules

> Jeremy's comment on S&AS/InverseFuncProp:
> http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-webont-wg/2003Sep/0156.html
> Peter's proposed resolution:
> http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-webont-wg/2003Sep/0181.html

RESOLVED: "The translation rule for individualvaluedPropertyID should be
changed to make its first triple be optional if there is... " per 0181
+ and add tests

ACTION PFPS edit S&AS [DONE Thu, 18 Sep 2003 15:35:38 -0400 (EDT)]

ACTION JJC edit tests for InverseFuncProp

> Jeremy's comment on S&AS/Ontology typing
> http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-webont-wg/2003Sep/0177.html
> Peter's proposed resolution:
> http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-webont-wg/2003Sep/0180.html

PFPS: make it optional [+details]
JJC: sounds good
so RESOLVED

ACTION JJC: add a test to show what would have happened if we hadn't made a change.

ACTION PFPS edit S&AS [DONE Thu, 18 Sep 2003 15:35:38 -0400 (EDT)]

ACTION Guus: check ref to see if there's impact from Ontology typing


> Sean: Old guide ontology versions
> http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-webont-wg/2003Sep/0134.html

ACTION DanC: arrange for redirect

> Parsia/Grove: OWL Test cases and Species Validation
> http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-webont-comments/2003Aug/0016.html
> No reply so far
> WG discussion thread starts at:
> http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-webont-wg/2003Aug/0120.html

Guus: [... summarizes email...] JJC, wanna finish this up?
JJC: sure... shall I get WG review 1st?
Guus: yes, send to webont-wg; chairs/team contact to OK, others welcome to comment


> Hugh Winkler: Missing AllDisjoint
> http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-webont-comments/2003Aug/0025.html
> No reply so far

ACTION JJC: see if there's an answer for this in owl-tests

> Benjamin Nowack on OWL ref:
> http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-webont-comments/2003Sep/0007.html
> No reply so far

ACTION MikeD: look into Nowack comments

--- owl Class (from Brickley)

DanC: pls *don't* do what PatH did; don't just give your opinion

DanC: we have an issue relevant to this...
http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/WebOnt/webont-issues.html#I5.20-should-OWL-provide-synonyms-for-RDF-and-RDFS-objects

JJC: I think there are some clarifying tests...

DanC: seems to me that Reference is aimed at the audience DanBri is representing

ACTION JJC: propose clarifying test (cf owl for owl msg)

ACTION Guus: see if Reference answers Brickley's owl:Class/rdfs:Class comment


> 3.3 PR Schedule
> 
> ACTION JimH: discuss PR schedule with CG

DONE.

Guus: this basically involved discussing the RDF schedule



> 4. RDFCORE DOCUMENTS (10 min)
> 
> ACTION Ian: report back on whether RDF WDs are as expected by S&AS

PFPS: RDF model theory appears to be satisfactory...

DONE.

PFPS: since rules are now normative, gotta look more closely at the rules

DanC: the rules are OK by me


> - appoint reviewer(s) for new RDF Semantics WD

ACTION HermanT: review RDF semantics w.r.t. OWL

JJC: it'll help RDF Core finish sooner if we can review the current /TR/ drafts

ACTION Guus: ask Ian to do a 2nd review of RDF semantics


> - position of WebOnt wrt. internationalization issues: discussion on
>    whether/how to adapt Guus' message
> http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-webont-wg/2003Sep/0027.html

Guus: the present RDFCore design is acceptable, and some of the others
 that have been considered are unacceptable.
 I don't propose to say "this is our favorite"

JJC: it would help if the "others" were specifically those proposed by I18N WG

ACTION Guus: revise proposal for WebOnt WG position on RDF Core literal decision


> 5. Reguest from QA WG
> 
> See:
> http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-webont-wg/2003Sep/0076.html
> Response from Jeremy:
> http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-webont-wg/2003Sep/0126.html

JJC: documenting what we did compared to what they propose seems in
order...

JJC is willing to do some work here provided another volunteer shows up

ACTION DanC: ask Evan Wallace to participate in WebOnt review of QA OPS guidelines

ACTION Guus: keep Karl informed as to the status of his request


> 6. TEST ISSUES (if time allows)
> 
> ACTION: JJC change status of all these tests in the editor's draft.
> DONE:
> http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-webont-wg/2003Sep/0132.html
> 
> Jeremy's proposal for reclassifying some tests:
> http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-webont-wg/2003Sep/0155.html
> 
> To discuss: relative URIs:
> http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-webont-wg/2003Sep/0148.html

Not discussed.

> 7. AOB

none.


-- 
Dan Connolly, W3C http://www.w3.org/People/Connolly/

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