12:58:20 RRSAgent has joined #egov 12:58:20 logging to http://www.w3.org/2009/05/27-egov-irc 12:58:22 RRSAgent, make logs public 12:58:24 Zakim, this will be EGOV 12:58:24 ok, trackbot, I see T&S_EGOV()9:00AM already started 12:58:25 Meeting: eGovernment Interest Group Teleconference 12:58:25 Date: 27 May 2009 12:58:34 chair: john, kevin 12:58:41 scribe: daniel 12:58:42 josema: 11pm 12:58:47 i have 8:58 12:58:50 scribeNick: Daniel_Bennett 12:59:25 + +1.202.319.aacc - is perhaps Daniel_Bennett 12:59:28 Owen has joined #egov 12:59:30 yes 12:59:43 + +1.410.992.aadd 12:59:47 zakim, Daniel_Bennett? is Daniel_Bennett 12:59:47 sorry, josema, I do not recognize a party named 'Daniel_Bennett?' 12:59:53 zakim, who's here? 12:59:53 On the phone I see aharvey, hughb, Sharron, Daniel_Bennett, +1.410.992.aadd 12:59:55 On IRC I see Owen, RRSAgent, Sharron, Zakim, Daniel_Bennett, MoZ, aharvey, hughb, josema, trackbot 13:00:28 +Josema 13:00:35 + +1.202.564.aaee - is perhaps Brand? 13:01:36 zakim, who's here? 13:01:36 On the phone I see aharvey, hughb, Sharron, Daniel_Bennett, +1.410.992.aadd, Josema, Brand? 13:01:44 On IRC I see Owen, RRSAgent, Sharron, Zakim, Daniel_Bennett, MoZ, aharvey, hughb, josema, trackbot 13:01:48 +Kevin 13:02:05 sounds like people forgot to get coffee 13:02:06 joec has joined #egov 13:02:33 +[IPcaller] 13:02:33 +Rachel 13:03:08 zakim, [IPcaller] is owen 13:03:08 +owen; got it 13:03:08 kevin has joined #egov 13:03:14 leave 13:03:18 agenda? 13:03:27 Rachel has joined #egov 13:03:30 Please say who is speaking when you start speaking. thanks 13:03:40 boo hoo 13:04:02 no problem 13:04:50 daniel@citizencontact.com 13:05:02 aharvey has joined #egov 13:06:18 Kevin- will talk about White House call on Thurs in agenda 2 13:06:25 Jose- ok 13:06:42 zakim, who's here? 13:06:42 On the phone I see aharvey, hughb, Sharron, Daniel_Bennett, +1.410.992.aadd, Josema, Brand?, Kevin, owen, Rachel 13:06:44 On IRC I see aharvey, Rachel, kevin, joec, Owen, RRSAgent, Sharron, Zakim, Daniel_Bennett, MoZ, hughb, josema, trackbot 13:06:46 Kevin start meeting 13:07:20 zakim, take up next agendum 13:07:20 agendum 1. "Agenda adjustments" taken up [from josema] 13:07:23 Kevin - news of data.gov 13:07:32 zakim, take up next agendum 13:07:32 agendum 1 was just opened, josema 13:07:36 zakim, close this agendum 13:07:37 agendum 1 closed 13:07:38 I see 3 items remaining on the agenda; the next one is 13:07:39 2. Data.gov and more what's going on [from josema] 13:07:40 zakim, take up next agendum 13:07:40 agendum 2. "Data.gov and more what's going on" taken up [from josema] 13:07:53 Kevin - mentions http://opengov.ideascale.com/ 13:08:16 Kevin- Beth N. has new title [congrats] 13:08:32 s/-/: 13:08:54 Kevin - takeaways - 1. furthering transparency 13:08:58 s/-/: 13:09:36 Kevin: concept behind launch of site is to hear best recommendations 13:10:05 Kevin: remarks on call pointed to short timeframe 13:11:01 Kevin: 2nd round will show best recommendations into a second level that goes out to agencies for comments 13:11:48 Kevin: already effort ongoing beyond the NAPA process too 13:12:10 Kevin: can the recommendations be put forward as regs is a question 13:12:31 q? 13:12:42 "it may be till end of the year till much happens" 13:13:23 Kevin: a lot of data.gov conversation. but many questions about why. 13:13:53 +Ken 13:13:56 Kevin: Suzanne had clued folks into a memo that asked for top 5 data sources (to answer questions) 13:14:38 "were some people struggling for reason for datasets released. 13:14:39 " 13:15:12 Kevin: my own comments were positive for having larger discussion with public 13:15:57 Kevin: looking to put together list of orgs to contact 13:16:40 +john 13:16:42 Joe: What is our goal toward the data.gov process (our meaning w3c egov IG) 13:16:44 zakim, Daniel_Bennett is joec 13:16:44 +joec; got it 13:16:52 zakim, aadd is Daniel_Bennett 13:16:52 +Daniel_Bennett; got it 13:17:06 Daniel_Bennett is daniel bennett 13:17:16 Joec is Joe Carmel 13:17:36 Kevin: we discussed this issue 13:17:37 john has joined #egov 13:17:50 yup, thanks daniel, it was just that zakim confused both, it's fine now :) 13:18:04 annew has joined #egov 13:18:08 Joe: how can we participate? 13:18:19 q? 13:18:39 Daniel: should we post group note to Open Govt. Dialogue NAPA site? 13:19:16 Kevin: we had brought the group note to some in us gov upon publication 13:20:42 Joe: in that gov put up not ready for prime time version a good place to start 13:21:18 Kevin: media was looking for criticism. I was positive to the effort. 13:21:29 +[LC] 13:21:44 Kevin: so many questions going around. this is a method for moving forward. 13:22:03 yes! 13:22:09 zakim, [LC] is annew 13:22:09 +annew; got it 13:22:12 Daniel: should we post group note to Open Govt. Dialogue NAPA site? 13:22:24 hi, anne! so great to see you around :) 13:22:36 glad to be here 13:22:41 hi anne 13:22:54 Joe: I put up my xml version of the data.gov site for people to play with http://www.xmldatasets.net/data.gov/catalog.xml 13:22:55 topic: data.gov 13:23:09 hi joe. 13:23:52 Joe: what was the acronym? 13:24:26 John: registration of information. makes a catalog that is human readable 13:24:36 Anne: is it a periodical 13:24:38 [http://www.epsiplus.net/content/download/15123/189429/file/Information%20Asset%20Registers%20(OPSI%20Discussion%20Paper)%2010%20Sep%2008.pdf] 13:24:44 Anne: ? 13:24:45 wondeful URI, isn't it? ;) 13:24:56 Anne: is it like GILS? 13:24:59 Sorry, Kevin. I was multi-tasking, taking another call when you called upon me just now. 13:25:03 John: yes, Anne 13:25:35 John: catalog descriptions is good to a point. linking is missed. 13:26:53 John: let me give an example 13:27:12 "if geo info is mentioned, then I could find it" 13:27:31 "but another model is to have URI for each location" 13:27:40 s/"if/...if 13:27:49 s/"but/...but 13:27:57 "but then I can go to a search location using URI for a set location" 13:28:01 s/"but/...but 13:28:41 "and this is a linked system for URIs rather than just general catalog metadata system" 13:28:51 s/"and/...and 13:29:07 Joe: you still need datasets to be published 13:29:17 John: agreed 13:30:19 Joe: if you RDF it then the information then it can be discovered 13:30:48 + +1.202.219.aaff 13:30:49 John: yes, but not saying that that is the only solution 13:31:59 Brand: did a google search that energy with data.gov 13:32:23 Brand: I get a URL, but not real answer 13:32:44 Anne: are we asking to find the dataset or a piece of data? 13:34:55 q+ 13:35:43 ack jo 13:35:45 Daniel: talked alot 13:36:07 :) 13:36:34 uh, oh, datapedia is coming 13:38:02 wiki.dbpedia.org apparently... 13:38:07 are you saying we don't need dbpedia? 13:38:35 I think dbpedia adds value, no? 13:38:47 I think Daniel is saying that as far as one can guess the underlying structure of the data it's fine 13:39:19 Daniel: mainly about need to use WWW of domains to say where a dataset is and having a decent structure to the data, that can be enough 13:39:27 yes, Jose 13:39:53 Joe: fundamental problem of semantics 13:40:00 I thought daniel was saying that we should be able to scrape the data from any web page. standards or no. 13:40:45 Joe: if one org is trying to standardize temp, that may be impossible across all orgs 13:40:50 rrsagent, draft minutes 13:40:50 I have made the request to generate http://www.w3.org/2009/05/27-egov-minutes.html josema 13:41:26 zakim, who's here? 13:41:26 On the phone I see aharvey, hughb, Sharron, joec, Daniel_Bennett, Josema, Brand?, Kevin, owen, Rachel, Ken, john, annew, +1.202.219.aaff 13:41:27 Anne, as long as the web site /data is using standard web/xhtml or xml w/ xsl 13:41:28 On IRC I see annew, john, aharvey, Rachel, kevin, joec, Owen, RRSAgent, Sharron, Zakim, Daniel_Bennett, MoZ, hughb, josema, trackbot 13:41:55 agree, we are missing the URI concept with data catalogues 13:41:58 zakim, list attendees 13:41:58 As of this point the attendees have been +1.216.443.aaaa, aharvey, +0073411aabb, Sharron, hughb, +1.202.319.aacc, +1.410.992.aadd, Josema, +1.202.564.aaee, Kevin, Rachel, owen, 13:42:02 ... Ken, john, joec, Daniel_Bennett, annew, +1.202.219.aaff 13:42:12 rrsagent, draft minutes 13:42:12 I have made the request to generate http://www.w3.org/2009/05/27-egov-minutes.html josema 13:42:37 Ken: perhaps there is a way for important buildings in federal blds for example, that can be a standard 13:43:04 we use URIs to disambiguate 13:43:06 Ken: we need a good blend of web and semantic standards 13:43:53 Joe: wikipedia is an example of a centralized data 13:45:05 daniel, anne, I think "valid" is not enough (in fact it's not even needed in many cases), I think the interesting point is to be able to guess what the data is about, what's the structure, as daniel mentioned e.g. microformats for geop, even better if some sort of XML or RDF 13:46:37 does an agency have a location? or does only a building? (something purely topographical) 13:46:53 Owen: we should move to XML instead of RDF 13:47:03 zakim, aaff is rick 13:47:03 +rick; got it 13:47:04 Daniel: more long talking 13:47:31 Rick: not a good model for world, Owen 13:48:30 horses for courses, no? 13:48:38 I said this a million times, for me it's about chosing the right tool for the job, and I can ellaborate 13:48:55 s/ellaborate/ellaborate on that 13:49:03 Daniel: W3C has combined XML with RDF into XHTML+RDFa 13:49:21 Joe: let a million flowers bloom 13:49:26 Thank you daniel for some diplomatic skills 13:50:01 Kevin: we should talk about best practices, not complete answers 13:50:30 q+ to talk about not going the RDF vs. XML way 13:50:33 Correction: I did not say not to use XML *instead* of RDF. 13:50:42 Joe: we can use different things. but we should talk about it. 13:51:11 Anne: we have different ways to do things and we should have levels of completeness. 13:51:21 If we want folks to use RDF OR XML, we should help them do so. 13:51:29 whatever format you use (including Excel), we should be pushing for good uris 13:51:44 +1 to owen! 13:52:00 john, we should use URLs if possible 13:52:01 Quick and dirty with a minimal amount of reusability. i.e. Joe's example of using .csv instead of .xls 13:52:27 +1 to Anne's point 13:52:30 +1 to anne, too 13:52:33 Joe: lets use some use quick and dirty methods. 13:52:51 Jose, please go ahead 13:53:33 q? 13:53:37 Dave: first point to documentation 13:54:08 Documentation can be published in xsd:documentation elements within XML schemas. 13:54:12 +1 josema 13:54:23 +1 Josema 13:54:25 Jose: let us not go into xml vs. rdf. 13:54:53 Why not suggest best practices for both? 13:55:00 rdf is really bad for legislation documents for example... 13:55:04 Jose: some cases we have different sources, we need to just get better data. 13:55:46 Jose: GRDDL is an interesting way to expose data 13:55:47 also, there's lots to say for xhtml, no? as a great format ;) 13:56:28 john: yes agree about rdf and leg docs. working on a leg schema. ...another discussion 13:57:00 I have a meeting on the hour. Hope the conversation goes back to interoperability issue in John's email. 13:57:08 sure, namely XHTML2! 13:57:11 Jose: concentrate on releasing 13:58:31 one can apply GRDDL to XHTML(2) then get RDF (and XHTML(2) is XML in the end) isn't it wonderful? 13:59:10 Daniel: BP1 = Documentation; BP2 = Standardization 13:59:24 Anne's gotta go. Next time and online. Bye 13:59:30 best practice for semantically exposing data 13:59:32 cheers Anne 13:59:32 bye 13:59:36 -annew 13:59:56 Daniel: talks a bit about BP of documentation 14:00:14 bye Anne 14:01:13 Joe: that data.gov does point to some documentation 14:01:33 Jose: we should move to next agenda item 14:01:49 Kevin: lets cover the Open Gov call 14:01:57 s/call/call first 14:02:09 I agree 14:02:43 Jose: let me mention, I dont know how w3c will act. 14:02:46 One of the things the eGov IG could do is suggest additional datasets to include in Data.gov 14:04:08 One dataset that might be good to include in Data.gov is the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) dataset: http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/inforeg_xmlreports/ 14:04:10 Jose: we will discuss whether data.gov is responded to. needs concensus 14:05:35 s/act/act yet 14:05:47 +1 14:05:47 hmm - is that the right place to do that? 14:06:08 shouldn't we talk more generically? 14:07:01 eg if you are a gov and want to surface data, data..gov is worth a look; it's great. If you wanted to do more, you could do x, y and z 14:07:11 Daniel: we should have a w3c egov hosted discussion board 14:07:20 I like more john's approach 14:07:24 +1 to john 14:08:18 happy for the ig to talk about gov data, less happy talking about just data.gov; albeit a great and startling and important initiative 14:08:19 Kevin: I agree that there is only a short amount of time. we should put together consensus doc 14:08:50 s/doc/eGov IG doc 14:09:30 Kevin: like John put up generic comments. also have a blog with individual commentors. 14:09:56 Kevin: blog is good idea. 14:10:01 +1 14:10:19 +1 enthusiastically 14:11:06 +1, too 14:11:25 bye 14:11:30 -hughb 14:11:50 agenda? 14:11:53 Joe: would this be in addition to examples? 14:12:16 what agenda are we on? still on 2? 14:12:35 yup, still on 2 I think 14:13:27 Joe: we are hoping to create a page off of the wiki key ideas as well as blog 14:13:33 yup 14:14:43 LOL 14:14:57 ROTFL 14:15:00 q+ 14:15:05 q- 14:15:21 ack jo 14:15:45 John: I agree with Joe on doing experimentation as well as doing comments 14:16:04 I agree with Joe too. 14:16:15 John: we can bring a broader perspective 14:16:25 scribe notes only 14 minutes left 14:16:54 agenda? 14:16:57 and 2 agenda items left 14:17:44 can we vote? blog, no blog. experiments, no experiments. 14:17:45 -rick 14:17:51 chairs? 14:18:26 blog is good, gives us some flex; lets move on ;) 14:20:30 Kevin: lets move forward 14:21:11 ACTION: kevin to collect comments 14:21:11 Created ACTION-64 - Collect comments [on Kevin Novak - due 2009-06-03]. 14:21:27 Kevin asks how to go forward 14:21:41 Kevin: how to proceed? 14:22:00 Kevin: will be talking to press, so would like some feedback 14:22:59 site to comment = http://opengov.ideascale.com/ ? 14:23:00 too clever by half, I fear 14:24:19 issues paper covers heaps 14:24:42 so, maybe we just point to stuff thats there? 14:24:50 Kevin: the group note can stand for our consensus 14:25:00 5 minutes left 14:25:06 I'll be able to add comments on this stuff later today. 14:25:18 and still 2 agenda items 14:26:26 re-reads: "...This online brainstorming session, open from May 21st to 28th, 2009..." 14:26:36 Kevin: wonders about date for comments 14:26:51 Rachel: thought it would be longer 14:26:53 apparently page not aligned to what was said on the call (June 2) 14:26:59 3 minutes left 14:27:07 still 2 agenda items 14:27:12 agenda? 14:28:00 Jose: not enough time to discuss charter, but lets discuss plan 14:28:01 great - go ahead 14:29:18 I will be unable to make the June 10 call 14:29:43 Jose: we have deadlines 14:30:07 Jose: we have until mid-June for draft for charter 14:30:39 Jose: June 24 as a deadline to coincide with group call 14:30:53 zakim, drop agendum 3 14:30:53 agendum 3, Charter, dropped 14:31:00 zakim, take up agendum 4 14:31:00 agendum 4. "Charter plan" taken up [from josema] 14:31:29 Kevin: I agree. and read through comments. I think that the action item is for chairs to compile into one pager 14:31:36 +1 14:31:39 current charter: http://www.w3.org/2008/02/eGov/ig-charter 14:32:00 Owen, I got an email confirm back instantly from opengov. 14:32:02 sounds good 14:32:10 ACTION: kevin to draft a 1-2 initial pager re: charter, john and jose to help 14:32:10 Created ACTION-65 - Draft a 1-2 initial pager re: charter, john and jose to help [on Kevin Novak - due 2009-06-03]. 14:32:32 agenda? 14:32:40 think we're done 14:32:44 Daniel: times up 14:32:50 Jose: agrees 14:33:13 topic: Gov 2.0 Summit 14:33:17 I'm trying to get an invite to that summit 14:33:40 Kevin: we have an opportunity for Gov 2.0 summit. we can put together case study. 14:33:56 [opportunitiy to have some IG people in there] 14:34:27 "Daniel and Joe, you can put together Rosetta Stone [and Repository Schema] for 20 min presentation. 14:34:40 "Daniel and Joe, you can put together Rosetta Stone [and Repository Schema] for 20 min presentation." 14:35:12 s/"/... 14:35:21 [kevin offers invites :)] 14:35:31 Kevin: i'm done 14:35:34 adjourns 14:35:36 ? 14:35:40 [ADJOURNED] 14:35:43 -Sharron 14:35:47 -Kevin 14:35:49 -Ken 14:35:49 thanks everyone :) 14:35:51 -Rachel 14:35:52 -aharvey 14:35:54 -Daniel_Bennett 14:35:56 -owen 14:35:58 -john 14:36:00 This was very informative. Thanks! 14:36:06 good session 14:36:12 joec has left #egov 14:36:57 rrsagent, draft minutes 14:36:57 I have made the request to generate http://www.w3.org/2009/05/27-egov-minutes.html josema 14:38:00 Sharron has left #egov 14:38:39 -joec 14:50:35 -Josema 14:50:55 zakim, bye 14:50:55 leaving. As of this point the attendees were +1.216.443.aaaa, aharvey, +0073411aabb, Sharron, hughb, +1.202.319.aacc, +1.410.992.aadd, Josema, +1.202.564.aaee, Kevin, Rachel, 14:50:55 Zakim has left #egov 14:50:58 ... owen, Ken, john, joec, Daniel_Bennett, annew, +1.202.219.aaff, rick 14:50:59 rrsagent, bye 14:50:59 I see 2 open action items saved in http://www.w3.org/2009/05/27-egov-actions.rdf : 14:50:59 ACTION: kevin to collect comments [1] 14:50:59 recorded in http://www.w3.org/2009/05/27-egov-irc#T14-21-11 14:50:59 ACTION: kevin to draft a 1-2 initial pager re: charter, john and jose to help [2] 14:50:59 recorded in http://www.w3.org/2009/05/27-egov-irc#T14-32-10