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31 Oct 2007

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<alanr_> All: 41# puts you on the queue

<alanr_> 40# takes you off

<alanr_> 61# mutes

<alanr_> 60# unmutes

<alanr_> http://www.w3.org/2007/OWL/wiki/Teleconference.2007.10.31/Agenda

<bijan> Uhm, a lot of the Eu people mimght be confused on this point

<bijan> uli was too

<sandro> Adding topics after the fact is easy enough.

<alanr_> q

<bijan> am I muted?

<alanr_> PROPOSED: Accept Previous Minutes

<alanr_> http://www.w3.org/2007/OWL/wiki/Teleconference.2007.10.24/Minutes

<alanr_> RESOLVED: Accept Previous Minutes

<sandro> Who just joined?

<sandro> And who is here from DERI Galway -- Ratnesh?

Issues List: Migrated all issues from OWLED to Tracker

<alanr_> http://www.w3.org/2007/OWL/wiki/HowIssuesAreProcessed

<Ratnesh> yes ratnesh

<alanr_> http://www.w3.org/2007/OWL/wiki/HowIssuesAreProcessed

<alanr_> http://www.w3.org/2007/OWL/wiki/Issues

<Ratnesh> Ratnesh from DERI Galway

<dlm> is there a link to where we are being pointed to look?

<sandro> Attendees: DeborahMcGuiness, Alan, Vipul_Kashyap, Evan_Wallace, Rinke, Ivan, bmotik, Jeremy, MartinD, Sandro, Fabien, Achille, Zhe_Wu, Ratnesh, bijan, pfps, uli, MikeSmith

Issues List: Evan couldn't find an Issue on the Issue List

Issues List: Evan asking about the completeness of the Issues List

<alanr_> http://www.w3.org/2007/OWL/tracker/issues/open

Issues List:: Complete wrt google-code and OWL

Issues List: Alan suggests adding issues that were not transferred should be added

<Fabian> Why I am not on the attendees list?

<sandro> Sorry, do we have Fabien here today, or only Fabian?

Issues List: Jeremy wants to migrate issues from the OWL comments list

<sandro> Attendees: DeborahMcGuiness, Alan, Vipul_Kashyap, Evan_Wallace, Rinke, Ivan, bmotik, Jeremy, MartinD, Sandro, Fabian, Achille, Zhe_Wu, Ratnesh, bijan, pfps, uli, MikeSmith

<sandro> corrected, Fabian.

<Fabian> Thanks!

Jeremy: Less Technical Documents (LTDs): Would like to find User Facing Documents Task Force

User-Facing Documents

LTDs: Documents such as OWL 1.0 Overview, Reference, User Guide

UFDs: Reuse OWL 1.0 Overview to create OWL 1.1 Overview in time for the Manchester F2F

<sandro> vipul, don't use "Foo: ....." unless "Foo" is a person's name.

UFDs: Work on the relating to features to requirements - Traceability Matrix
... Form a task force and report back to the main group

<sandro> Jeremy: The proposal is to form a Task Force

Bijan: Objection: WG will consider these as publication tracks

Alan: Bijan's points - WG documents should not be the only outlet for the UFDs
... What put to on XML page for OWL for instance
... Appropriate use of WG time .. making sure that this would not interfere with WG Tasks
... Parallel track
... Off WG meetings
... Further approval of documents

<sandro> (Who is +1.408.774.aabb ? )

<Zakim> Jeremy, you wanted to mention charter

Jeremy: Don't want to be not responsive to you

<alanr_> deb next

<alanr_> then ew, bijan

Jeremy: Hence called "Less Technical Documents"
... Charter Section 2 specifically taks about documents which all 5 of us want to produce

Bijan: Variety of users
... Not objecting to producing variety of documents

<sandro> bijan: "Outreach documents"

Bijan: That is the only or the best way to meeting the requirements of the WG charter
... Would like a discussion on this
... Need to sanction whether these are WG documents

<sandro> Bijan: People working on these documents should understand that they might not become WG documents. They might not be how we meet the charter requirement.

Deborah: Something like OWL 1.1 Overivew document out

<Jeremy> No: Deb said OWL 1.0 Overview doc

Deborah: If disagreement about that ... we need a discussion before we put energy in it

<sandro> Deb: If there is disagreement about whether we'll publish something like this, I'd want to hear that disagreement NOW.

Deborah.: OWL 1.1 Overview similar to OWL 1.0 Overview document?

Alan: OWL Overview is simple presentation of features
... Goal is to produce something of that nature

<bijan> I'll note that I have an interest in working on an Overview document

Alan: Goal of the traceability document is to have features related to a set of use cases in different domains
... Demonstrate the value of OWL 1.1 over OWL 1.0

<pfps> I am also interested working in an Overview document.

Alan: Issues with some features

Bijan: Overview document will be helpful
... Traceability committed to producing
... Not convinced that it is useful use of your time
... Longevity problems

Alan: Have examples where documents didn't age gracefully?

Bijan: Implementation Reports
... Document like requirements document kept live would not be good

<Fabian> I am afraid zakim mistakes me for Fabien. How do I change that?

Jeremy: Traceability is a short term document

<ew> +1 to Jeremy's comment

<Zakim> Jeremy, you wanted to address longevity

<Jeremy> Vipul: we can decide whetehr traceability has long-term value, in the future - we don't need to decide now

Bijan: Communicating to people now
... WD may not be the best way to do that
... Feature matrices are very useful for adoption, etc.
... That gets stale over time
... Have some commitment that they could be updated

<dlm> whop yes i did

<dlm> +q

Deborah: Is OWL 1.0 Overview is a big risk for becoming outdated

<pfps> I'm not keen on an OWL 1.0 style document - it is rather long

<bijan> I would have attended the TF but it came up too quickly forme

<Zakim> Jeremy, you wanted to ask for action to convene next 'user facing' tf meeting

<scribe> ACTION: Jeremy to convene the next UFD task force [recorded in http://www.w3.org/2007/10/31-owl-minutes.html#action01]

<trackbot-ng> Sorry, couldn't find user - Jeremy

<alanr_> http://www.w3.org/2007/OWL/wiki/Backward_compatibility_audit

<sandro> Alas, Jeremy, you're not officially in the WG yet, so the tracker can't track actions on you.....

<bijan> You can put it in my name

alan: Agreement requirement on the definition of backward compatibility
... Task Force for Test Cases

<bijan> And I'll delegate to my good friend jeremy :)

<bijan> I can't hear jeremy very well

Jeremy: Its still a bit early to have the test cases

<bijan> I missed soemthing

Alan: OWL 1.0 test cases should run and produce same results as a criteria for backward compatibility

<bijan> alanr could you restate it?

<Elisa> +1

<Achille> +1

Sandro: Good starting point

<pfps> actually some of the test cases *could* change as a result of the extended expressive power of OWL 1.1

<sandro> Jeremy: Still too early to make new test cases, but not too early to think about how we want to handle them.

<Rinke> Cannot oversee the consequences of such a resolution

Bijan: Could be bugs in test suite

<Jeremy> +1 to bijan

Bijan: Could be a good starting point

<sandro> Bijan: It's a good starting point, but I wouldn't want to RESOLVE it, since we may want to break it in small ways.

Jeremny: Poilicies around test cases

Jeremy: Requirement that WG only approve tests that it regarded as correct

Alan: Test case per wiki page

<sandro> scribe note -- Jeremy said there is NOT a requirement that the WG only apporove "correct" test cases.

Alan: Bias to write as many test cases as possible in the functional syntax
... Cannot do a test case to check RDF mapping example

Jeremy: In OWL 1.0, tests in some database

<bijan> +1 to all syntaxes

Jeremy: Can generate all possible syntaxes for the test

<bijan> This is very easy with the OWL API

<bijan> vipul, tha'ts jeremy, not me

<sandro> EVERYTHING is totally programmable. :-)

Alan: Wiki is programmable

<Rinke> +1 to all syntaxes as well, seems weird to focus on the FS if we are still tinkering with it

<bmotik> I aplologize, but I need to take a 3 minute break to attend to something.

<MikeSmith> +1 to multiple syntaxes

<Zakim> Jeremy, you wanted to mention problem with alternative syntaxes

Jeremy: Flexibility => Tool has a bug => Bug in your test suite

<sandro> Alan: Trust But Verify

Alan: Explicit tests that tool translation matches the correct answer

<bijan> You have a core set of tests about the translation (Alan suggested this

<alanr_> http://www.w3.org/2007/OWL/wiki/Teleconference.2007.10.31/TestCasesRequirements

<bmotik> I'm back and I have bernardo on the speakerphone

<bijan> Btw, for the interested, i started work on an OWL 1.1 tutoiral a long time ago, and I found a swoop like tabbed interface that I adapted: http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~bparsia/2007/owltutorial/

<Jeremy> (what about the RIF report???)

<bijan> Might be fun for test cases

<bijan> Or for examples

Alan: Dependency on another group on our charter - what are expectations and why does W3C do that?

Sandro: some interaction between the specs
... Implementor needs to understand both spects

<Rinke> I like the tabbed interface!

Sandro: Bad thing for two specs to contradict each other

Alan: Have people to be liasions
... communicate any changes

<bijan> We have different groups,s ome are producing specs (like RIF) and others which don't (e.g., HCLS, at least not specs that affect us)

<bijan> I'm on RIF and HCLS

Alan: Any volunteers for liastions

<ivan> I am on SWEO

<bijan> I could do RIF

<ivan> sure

<Elisa> I'm active in SWD

<ivan> I am also on SWCG:-)

<bijan> What's SWD?

<bijan> Ah! Good

I could do HCLS

<bijan> Also, several of us are OWLED steering committee members

<ivan> note: both HCLS and SWEO will be rechartered early 2008

<bijan> Are they really relevant?

<ivan> URW is an incubator group

<Rinke> I think Anne Cregan is in the uncertainty thing

<ivan> Rinke: yes, she is

Alan: Liasons with other groups - Bijan with RIF, Ivan with SWEO, Elisa with SWD, Vipul with HCLS

<uli_> ...and I think Jeff is as well in the uncertainty one

<ew> Jeff Pan and others are members of Uncertainty XG

Alan: Liasons with XML Schema and Uncertainty XG to be decided

<ew> +1 on user defined datatypes by any name

<uli_> +1 to Bijan

Bijan: XML Schema group did not give OWL WG defined datatypes by name

<sandro> XML Schema Participants: * BEA Systems, Inc. (1 representative) * Boeing Company (1 representative) * Bologna, University of (3 representatives) * Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) (5 representatives) * Ecole Mohammadia d'Ingenieurs Rabat (EMI) (1 representative) * Edinburgh (HCRC Language Technology Group) (1 representative) * IBM Corporation (2 representatives) * Mark Logic Corporation (1 representative) * National Association of Convenience Stores (NA

<sandro> CS) (1 representative) * National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) (1 representative) * Oracle Corporation (2 representatives) * Sun Microsystems, Inc. (1 representative)

Alan: Connections to the OMG

<ivan> note: mapping by Vipul refers to a possible XG on mapping between relational data in an RDB and RDF

Elisa: Evan and Elisa could do the coordination... Both of them co-chair the Ontology WG there

<sandro> Elisa: Evan and I co-chair the ontology PSIG at OMG.

Alan: Future meeting - Elisa and Evan could speak on similarities nd dependencies

<alanr_> http://www.w3.org/2005/rules/wg/bld/draft-2007-10-19.html

RIF Review

<alanr_> http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-owl-wg/2007Oct/0066.html

<ivan> :-)

<pfps> +1

<ivan> +1

<sandro> Sandro: say +1 if you have read Peter's response....

<Jeremy> (some hp eyeballs looked at some version, but I haven't)

<uli_> +1

Sandro: Need some people to review...
... If it comes down to more substantive issues then it may make more sense to review them

<bijan> Sorry I've been out of contact

<alanr_> qck pfps

<bijan> And want to chime in

<alanr_> qck vipul

<uli_> which symbols do you mean, Vipul?

<alanr_> ^^

<alanr_> ##

<uli_> +1

Sandro: Disagrees with the Peter Re: consideration from RIF

<sandro> s/Disagreed/doesn't really disagree/

<uli_> I was only slow in verifying that we were talking about the same email...

<alanr_> k

<Zakim> Jeremy, you wanted to suggest a procedural approach ....

Jeremy: If specific endorsement of Peter's technical comments is required, then communication should be sent to OWLWG

<sandro> +1 Jeremy --- endorsing Peter in broad terms and put the onus on RIF to come back on specific points as necessary.

Alan: Gotta go...

<alanr_> by vipul

Can someone take over scribing?

<alanr_> I will

Thanks

<alanr_> Bijan: Bijan, as rep will review, then have phone call soon. RIF/OWL compat doc has been removed

<alanr_> sandro: moved to other document

<bijan> +1

<sandro> Alan: Based on Ivan and Uli having vetted Peter's review, I think we can make this officially from OWL WG.

<uli_> indeed, peter's document is a nice, understandable overview of RIF with a few polite questions

<uli_> oups - I meant "overview of BLD"

<bijan> Noting that my modifications may be None

<Zakim> Jeremy, you wanted to mention XML Schema comment

<sandro> PROPOSED: Bijan check over Peter's review, and if he doesn't have any problem with it, he conveys it to RIF as a review from OWL WG

<Jeremy> (with minor mods_

<pfps> i like jeremy's addendum

<sandro> PROPOSED: Bijan and Peter come to consensus on the 0066 review; if they suceed, they convey it to RIF as a review from the OWL WG

<Jeremy> process tricks ....

<ew> +1

<Jeremy> +1

<bijan> +1

<alanr_> +1

<Rinke> +1

<ivan> +1

<MartinD> +1

<MikeSmith> +1

<pfps> +1, of course

<zhe> +1

<Fabian> +1

<Achille> +1

<bmotik> +1

<uli_> +1

<sandro> RESOLVED: Bijan check over Peter's review, and if he doesn't have any problem with it, he conveys it to RIF as a review from OWL WG

<alanr_> :)

<sandro> RESOLVED: Bijan and Peter come to consensus on the 0066 review; if they suceed, they convey it to RIF as a review from the OWL WG

<uli_> bye

<Rinke> bye

<sandro> (first version of resolution was in error!)

Summary of Action Items

[NEW] ACTION: Jeremy to convene the next UFD task force [recorded in http://www.w3.org/2007/10/31-owl-minutes.html#action01]
 
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