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30 Sep 2009

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Present
Regrets
rachel
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Contents


 

aaaa is Daniel Bennett

note Daniel is in noisy coffee house. I will stay on mute and type. (chance I may need to leave at 10am)

hi Joe

remind Joe to go on IRC

and that way he can send links

thanks John

<sandro> Hey +1-859-408 person -- you were causing LOUD static on the line.

i miss jose's hold music

Daniel says hi to Kevin

651 is daniel

that's me

on mute

I did at beginning

Sandro: asking for phone participants
... reading out roll

<johnlsheridan> unmute me

John: first thing on the agenda is the 14th of Nov. any scribe volunteers?
... picks himself... graciously
... that is the 14th of Oct

<sandro> action-1?

<trackbot> ACTION-1 -- Ari Schwartz to open a new section in the wiki for use cases for his TF -- due 2008-07-02 -- CLOSED

<trackbot> http://www.w3.org/2007/eGov/IG/track/actions/1

John: review of open items. please post link to IRC

<sandro> http://www.w3.org/2007/eGov/IG/track/actions/open

John: Action 3 and 14 are old. 70 has moved on, first with Keven.

Kevin: original white paper, has been met/superceded by Data.gov response

<sandro> close action-70

<trackbot> ACTION-70 draft white paper closed

Kevin: we have moved on from original

John: close 70
... leave 14 open and check on Action 3

Kevin: leave Action 3 open. still looking into partnership/etc

John: Action 71 was Jose. There is a working draft on HTML5 and RDFa?

Sandro: Doesn't know

Daniel: is working on it

<sandro> close action-84

<trackbot> ACTION-84 Support and reach out to other AC reps to encourage support of eGov Charter closed

Daniel: talked with Kevin and will have more next meeting

John: closing 84
... Action 89 is still on
... question about attending by Kevin suggested by Sharron

Kevin: about attending TPAC

so where does it stand?

Kevin: still on me

John: Action 92. reach out to agencies

Kevin: yes, leave it open

John: Action 93 on Sandro

Sandro: no responses so close Action 93

John: leave it open and now push it as item for others to do

<sandro> revise action as: try to get people to use it...

John: let's move on to Charter review

<sandro> http://www.w3.org/2009/06/eGov/ig-charter

Sandro: can say that it looks good but no official

Kevin: has heard good feedback
... possibility of getting additional assistance

Sandro: we got healthy 15 or so comments on Charter

John: next steps. internal review in w3c

Sandro: next week is now set for review

John: any questions on the charter review?

silence

more silence

John: lets move on to next agenda. where do we go on from here.

Where to go from here?

John: in particular within scope of charter
... what would make the participants happy doing?

Joe: throws something out. at face to face... we talked about best practices

Daniel: call for use cases. compiling them. analysis of uses cases. value add on what gov does.

Joe: about cataloging the data
... what is the data that govs actually have and what can be done
... those are the two things that interest me.

John: most efforts into government data piece. esp. linked data

Daniel: can we go round robin asking folks on the call?

thanks

on mute

so cant talk

ah

<AdamHarvey> Sorry I'm late!

I am looking to see finding use cases and comparing to best practices

and evaluating according to w3c standards

<sandro> Kevin: EO group includes linked data, but also all the Web 1.0 stuff, including accessibility, etc.

and also cataloging use cases with analysis/annotation

(reminder on mute)

Brand: how we can get more involved in data.gov
... especially in approaching Vivek Kundra
... data.gov effort looking to RDFa

Kevin: reached out and the feedback was that a govt only group. only employees. I stated we are ready to help here at W3C egov.

<johnlsheridan> doesn't the memo say gov is participative?

Brand: still closed
... hoping this group can be part. data.gov looks like RDFa positive.

<josema> I believe George referred to this doc with his comments: http://george.thomas.name/omb/HHS_Comments_Data.gov_Conops.doc

<AdamHarvey> Thanks, Jose...

<sandro> (um, who is speaking?)

<johnlsheridan> George

<sandro> (thanks)

George: speaking to data.gov
... stated the URL for his comments

(who is speaking? please announce yourself before speaking. thanks)

<johnlsheridan> currently it is brand

Brand: Ontology and data models for government. Brand is leading part of the effort.
... mentions the conferences next week

<AdamHarvey> Speak up Daniel...

<sandro> Daniel: I'll be speaking at the XBRL+W3C conference next week. If anyone is interested go to ....

<sandro> http://www.w3.org/2009/03/xbrl/cfp.html

yes, thanks sandro

and Diane Mueller

Kevin: several folks will be there

silence

<josema> john, if you are speaking, you are muted!

he is on mute again

take him off

<johnlsheridan> can you hear me

<johnlsheridan> I'll dial back in

it says he is muted

John: asking around about participants interest.

<tb> Thomas bandholtz is calling from Germany

Adam: already on ETF. wants to help translate techspeak especially for local govts

John: this is consistent with our efforts

Jose: working on a couple of projects. spending most of time on projects that open gov data involved.
... we still need to put out W3Cstandards. dealing with proprietary formats.
... it is complicating the point of open gov data

Joe: are you chartered to look at cataloging gov looking at standards.

Kevin: a lot of agencies dealing with legacy data.
... how can we aid agencies with this problem set.

we should address those that need 100% solutions for data to be useful vs. those that can just move on with new data.

missed. who is speaking

<josema> we are building a number of transformers, but it's hard and most are adhoc due to how legacy data was archived :(

Brian: Local govt need esp. help on this. this is my interest with outreach to locals.

John: we have similar issue. my experience does not hire those folks

Brian: no money for this work

Joe: talking about just having raw data. and then allow others to overlay documentation.

Brian: lets at least catalog.

how about open sourcing the conversion of gov docs. like recaptcha

?

Joe: it is possible to do PDF things like include embedded xml and named locations.

Daniel: that is not standard practice and does not apply to legacy docs. and adobe looking to Mars Project.

Brian: resources lack and IT lack is holding folks back.
... human speak is better than geek speak at getting gov folks to see importance of good data practices

John: is there anyone more to speak?

Thomas: Inspire project

(missed part due to phone and hard to hear)

John: i am on the Inspire project
... looking to this for implementation.

<sandro> http://inspire.jrc.ec.europa.eu/ Inspire, Spacial Data Infrastructure

<johnlsheridan> it's all very top down

Thomas: project of mashups with Google maps ...
... we are publishing more
... from outside of Inspire. see how it can be linked up.

John: some of the problems and issues related to the law versus what is possible.
... last call for participants.

Todd: has been lurking this group.
... interested in web standards.

Sandro: personal interest. help provide with tech stuff.

<johnlsheridan> http://blogs.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/digitalengagement/post/2009/09/30/Calling-Open-Data-Developers-We-need-your-help.aspx

John: on issue of linked data.. soft launch of data.gov like service

<sandro> johnlsheridan: We're doing the VERY SOFT launch of the UK equiv of data.gov today. Preview access on request.

John: ask for log in to see
... if you go to link then go to google group

<AdamHarvey> http://groups.google.com/group/uk-government-data-developers/

Vagner: we are developing new stuff for open gov.

can you post links Vagner?

Legislation and Citations

<joec> http://legislink.org/us

<johnlsheridan> People are already building stuff around our legislation API, eg: http://github.com/robmckinnon/legislation-uk

<johnlsheridan> the UK legislation API is at www.legislation.gov.uk - and we're surfacing some RDF too, with more to come.

<Vagner> link to an XML open data project in Brazil: http://projeto.lexml.gov.br/documentacao/resumo-em-ingles

<AdamHarvey> I just got pulled into a meeting,... have to leave.

Joe: discussing a method of providing links to gov docs including sub/anchored links
... need to help govt w/ overlay

Daniel says that having open data, allows overlays like legislink independent of gov. does not keep gov from doing anything.

is a value add that can help influence gov. as opposed to current practice of bad data that private firms fix/normalize and then provide expensive access

<josema> [scribe disconnected]

Summary of Action Items

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