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<ChrisBeer> Sandro - do we have an agenda for this meeting at all?
<sandro> I'm about to send out. Kevin was supposed to chair but cancelled. :-(
<ChrisBeer> kk - I'm here, just in another program. back in 30 for meeting
<sandro> scribe: jose
<josema> scribe: josema
<Daniel_Bennett> probably snow day here in washington dc area
sandro: chairing this one myself since Kevin couldn't finally make it
<sandro> http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-egov-ig/2010Feb/0031.html
sandro: main point is to hear john about data.gov.uk
<sandro> minutes http://www.w3.org/2007/eGov/IG/meeting/2010-01-20
sandro: any comments about the minutes?
[none heard]
<sandro> http://www.w3.org/2007/eGov/IG/wiki/Meetings
scribe: next meeting in two
weeks
... need a scribe volunteer, please?
<sandro> scribe volunteer?
<george> regrets for next meeting - out of the country
<karen> +1 Ed
<sandro> next scribe: EdSu
[Ed volunteers to scribe on 17 Feb]
sandro: any comments about agenda today?
<luigi> hi all
karen: any updates around Comm, outreach and conferences?
sandro: sure, when talking about news, etc.
<ChrisBeer> back
<sandro> action-14?
<trackbot> ACTION-14 -- John Sheridan to share how he justified the business decision of becoming W3C Members -- due 2008-10-30 -- OPEN
<trackbot> http://www.w3.org/2007/eGov/IG/track/actions/14
sandro: john on sharing business case to become W3C Members
john: yeah, still on me
sandro: want a deadline?
john: not a bad idea, let's say that in 2 weeks time (17 Feb)
sandro: ok
<sandro> action-76?
<trackbot> ACTION-76 -- José Manuel Alonso to address funding issue -- due 2009-12-31 -- OPEN
<trackbot> http://www.w3.org/2007/eGov/IG/track/actions/76
josema: not working on it anymore, should be better on the Coord Team
<sandro> action-89?
<trackbot> ACTION-89 -- José Manuel Alonso to explore the feasibility of various European venues and conference collaborations and propose specific dates -- due 2009-09-16 -- OPEN
<trackbot> http://www.w3.org/2007/eGov/IG/track/actions/89
josema: it's about finding a way forward in terms of funding
<sandro> josema: I tried to schedule a F2F in Brussels in December, but it was complicated by other events, so that was postponed. I wanted to do something TimBL could attend.
<karen> q
<karen> +1 around key events
<sandro> close action-89
<trackbot> ACTION-89 explore the feasibility of various European venues and conference collaborations and propose specific dates closed
josema: maybe better to schedule around events in DC in March, I don't see how to make this happen in EU in the short term
<sandro> action-95
sandro: will try to do by next week??
<sandro> - RDFa Working Group begins
<Daniel_Bennett> +q
sandro: a new group has been launched on RDFa, embedding RDF in HTML pages
<ChrisBeer> Awesome news :)
daniel: opengov directive
(un)conferences taking place in DC, next one on Feb 17
... last time had folks from OMB and other agencies that need
to implement the OGD by April
<sandro> - US Gov't Budget announced ($81bn for IT?)
sandro: heard from kevin, need to find more detail about allocation
<sandro> cory: that'll be hard
<sandro> - Gov 2.0 Expo (proposal(s) accepted)
cory: very hard, but there may be a way, I guess
karen: IG submitted two
proposals: panel on tradeoff and various types of techs (still
under consideration)
... second for workshop on how to put open data on the Web
(accepted)
... sandro and john to co-chair
... another proposal from W3C on Accesibility (accepted, too)
will see Judy Brewer
... talking about that and its relation with mobile, etc.
... we're very happy, very good visibility for us
<ChrisBeer> +1 Jose
karen: also submitted to O'Reilly, no news yet
<Cory> yes
sandro: quick poll: who expects to attend?
<sandro> poll: attending gov 2 ?
<Daniel_Bennett> +.5
-1
<sandro> +1
<george> +1 - $$? tho
<bandholtz> -1
<karen> +
<karen> 1
<sandro> brian: -1 (probably)
<sandro> - FOSE (proposal(s) accepted)
<sandro> poll: attending fose
<cgi-irc> Rachel +1
sandro: more proposals accepted, one for FOSE
<Cory> +.5
<sandro> sandro: don't know
-1
<bandholtz> -1
<karen> -1 (same time as W3C AC meeting)
<george> +.25
<edsu> -1 # will be in dc though
<ChrisBeer> -1 :(
sandro: anything else about FOSE proposal?
karen: panel, kevin to chair,
more focused on LOD
... daniel also participating
<cgi-irc> FOSE panel is Kevin, John, Daniel & Rachel
karen: more announcements
<sandro> subtopic: W3C AC members: AC meeting March 21-23
karen: for W3C AC Reps,
registration is open (21-23 march at MIT)
... WWW2010, April, Raleigh, LOD camp there
... Web Science trust probably will co-locate and discuss eGov
topics
<karen> http://www2010.org/www/
karen: opportunity to co-locate a
eGov IG F2F, too
... RDF workshop announced, Ivan Herman is eager to see papers
on vertical application areas
... such as eGov, I want to encourage to submit
sandro: I wrote a blog post about the topic a couple months ago
<edsu> first REST conference is happening at www2010 too http://ws-rest.org/
sandro: any other announcements?
john: tomorrow I've been invited by Danish government to speak about data.gov.uk
<Daniel_Bennett> nice John. have fun
<karen> +1 John Sheridan in Copenhagen
john: I'll be in Copenhagen, Danish Minister to open
<Daniel_Bennett> +1
john: 24 Feb, meetup in
London
... Setefano ?? project officer at EU looking at SW and use and
adoption by Govs
... he's trying to organize a workshop in Sept
<edsu> karen: http://www.meetup.com/Web-Of-Data/calendar/12317420/
rachel: reminder to everyone in the US that agencies are supposed to put up a page to get feedback
<karen> Is there a link?
rachel: on OGD and how they can be more transparent to the public
<sandro> rachel: comment window opens Saturday and runs for 2 weeks
rachel: comment opens Saturday and runs for 2 weeks
sandro: pointers?
rachel: they'll be available from whitehouse.gov
<sandro> rachel: will be on whitehouse.gov/open and see webcontent.gov
rachel: we'll also have a page to help agencies do their /open ones from webcontent.gov
sandro: more?
<edsu> karen: not sure what you're looking for, but that url has the info about the event, and how to sign up
[none heard]
sandro: last week we reviewed feedback, bunch of people interested
<sandro> http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-egov-ig/2010Feb/0029
sandro: we asked people about
potential times for telcons
... poll closed yesterday
... group 4 was quite constraint, not much problems for the
rest
... we need to review results and see when to start scheduling
calls
<george> does today count for 3 days notice to this fri?
sandro: I need to book conference
bridge, etc.
... there's a 3-day advance notice for this
cory: group 2: I've a conflict
for the same slot over the next couple weeks
... in any case, I'd like to propose to combine 1&2
... to bring the strategy and technical view together
... would fit quite well for telcons in the near future
... and I'd propose the group 1 slot for that
sandro: Thomas?
<sandro> ACTION: sandro reserve bridge Thursday10 for Group 1 [recorded in http://www.w3.org/2010/02/03-egov-minutes.html#action01]
<trackbot> Created ACTION-96 - Reserve bridge Thursday10 for Group 1 [on Sandro Hawke - due 2010-02-10].
thomas: I'm also available on Thus??
cory: so we could probably start on Feb 11
<ChrisBeer> With regards to 4 - core members seem happy with the timing
<edsu> ChrisBeer: you just on irc?
<sandro> subtopic: group 3
<ChrisBeer> Have had feedback from non-respondants directly who indicate that that timeslot is fine. I'd envision that after initial telecon, we'd move into a more collab online workspace...
<ChrisBeer> @ ed yes
<ChrisBeer> ... collab online workspace and meet only as required.
george: thanks for the survey,
apparently Fri at 9am works for enough folks
... we might want to start this week
... are we able to use same tools?
sandro, yes, but I cannot guarantee to have it ready for this Fri
george: ok, thanks, I'll start a
wiki page to organize stuff
... I'll be away in India for 3 weeks, starting 8 Feb
<Cory> Sandro: Is there a "page" for projects 1&2?
george: so first thing for this Fri would be to get a co-coordinator to get things moving on
<sandro> not yet Cory, but you can make one.
<george> http://www.w3.org/2007/eGov/IG/wiki/Projects/GLD_Demo
sandro: anyone in the group can make project pages in the wiki
<sandro> subtopic: project 4
<sandro> subtopic: project 5
daniel: generally it's a great
time but haven't checked with all the group if they can
attend
... Chris and I to work closely together
<Cory> Also, Is there group mail lists?
<ChrisBeer> +1 Daniel
<ChrisBeer> +1 Cory
daniel: good question from Cory on on subgroup lists
<sandro> subtopic: project 6
brian: very good time for me, haven't checked closely with people yet
<ChrisBeer> With regard to My and Daniels projects - given thier nature, much of the work can take place via correspondance imo, so we can be fairly flexible on when and what time we have those meetings.
brian: expect to develop best
practices for social media in gov
... I'd like to hold first meeting next week
... Feb 12 at 3pm ET
sandro: mailing lists, we
discussed about using tags at the beginning of the
subject
... or making lists for subgroups
... I don't have a strong opinion, probably separate mailing
lists is more flexible
<ChrisBeer> would like to see discussion forum format or the wiki actively used. Using tags on main list is a good idea - encourages participation from others on an ad-hoc basis
<george> +1 Chris
daniel: we can discuss among ourselves in the groups, use wiki discussion pages, ??
<george> folks can 'watch' wiki pages
<ChrisBeer> +1
sandro: I'm not sure
[some discussion about the various possibilities offered by the wiki]
<edsu> you might be able to filter based on page category, if groups assign their pages to a category
<george> +1 cory - create an entry page, make links on that to new pages, watch the entry page
<ChrisBeer> Case in point - it works for 100,000's people editing collaboratively on wikipedia, I'm sure we can make ours work for our little efforts :)
sandro: anybody feels strongly about separate mailing lists?
cory: let's start with subject tags and figure out if they're needed
<george> +1 cory - [3] = GLD_Demo
<ChrisBeer> I do in that I don't like the idea - encourages non-transparency
Brian: I second that
... if things get too "spammy" we might want to start separate
ones
<edsu> +1 for 1 mailing list
<sandro> consensus: one list for now.
sandro: I think I hear consensus
on starting with tags
... for the tags... I guess that people from each group should
come up with their own
... anything else on the groups that we need right now?
<luigi> why not using a forum instead of a mailing list ?
sandro: I'll go ahead and make telcon reservations asap
<ChrisBeer> If we limit messages to the list to general discussion and RFCs on issues, we should be ok re "spammy". I'd encourage TF1-6 with the caveats someone suggested (FYI etc)
<Daniel_Bennett> group 5 can use the URL of their main page as the tag for their email, etc
<george> @sandro - thanks! will follow up :)
sandro: luigi, that's not what we have been using so far and haven't heard any push for that
<george> discussion on wiki page = subject forum
<ChrisBeer> +1 luigi, but unfortunately infrastructure would lie outside of w3c namespace :(
<luigi> ok, :(
<Cory> There is a (US) data.gov meeting next thursday - is anyone going?
<ChrisBeer> (ie: would require w3c to set up, test, tie into permissions structure etc)
john: we had a preview launch
back in Nov 2009
... to get feedback from the developer community
... site was focused on being attractive to developers
<sandro> john: data.gov.uk is for developers, not for end-users.
john: departments are able to make more end-user friendly but not the main focus
<Cory> Interesting, we have no developer site for the US
john: most datasets were
published by departaments themselves
... office of statistical information put info about transport,
crime statistics
... there was a lot of policy activity focused on what should
be done
... goal 1 is transparency but also very important enabling
economic benefits
<ChrisBeer> We have one in Australi (developer site) - general feedback is good
john: of people building services
and products on top
... published a paper on smarter government on this with some
focus on public information
... UK gov followed W3C recommendations, in particular SW +
LD
... discussion on which info should be made free, which one
should have some sort of tax
... best example is Ordnance Survey, which is used to charge
for its data
<edsu> Smarter Government
john: this needed consideration on the policy level, too
<ChrisBeer> Q: Is all data released under creative commons, or does Crown retain copyright?
john: and a big policy change to
make it free
... because it costs to make information public
... another interesting discussion was around CC
... if it was compatible or not with licenses in the UK
... differences between 2.5 and 3.0 versions
... an issue in EU is the concept of ?? right, non-existant in
the US
... on the technology side, having the departments producing
the metadata themselves
... was a great idea, we did not intend to build a big central
database
... how we can persist information of Web documents it's also
of paramount importance for us
... we do archive Web content, it's the responsibility of the
agencies to do it properly
... so if page not available, people will still be able to
access it in the archive
... same consideration for datasets
... our approach to preservation is a very important piece of
our work
... we use some RDFa, we will use more
... for example we mark CC licensed content
... we're adding it to descriptions of applications people are
producing
... few things we learned by suing LD over last couple
months:
... 1. needs of data producers much different from those of
data consumers
... puts obligation into producers at departments to do the
right thing
... on consumer side: many developers are much more comfortable
using simpler APIs
... it's been a paradox, we're doing a piece of work on how we
can "constraint" ourselves
... to build API features automatically onto data, so those can
use it in an easier way for them
<luigi> maybe URI persistence must be distinguidshed from documents persistence
john: significant work being put
on this
... for example, publishing JSON vs SPARQL endpoint
... first implementation should be available in few weeks
<sandro> (very cool -- automatic JSON and XML APIs from Linked Data)
john: in terms of some of the
problems, we faced a few
... for example, if you have a URI for a school and data from a
school
... those may be changed at different places and at a different
point in time
... so if I want to get data about the school today, might be
not the same I had a few months ago
... but the old one might not be available anywhere
... we're trying a few models and patterns to cope with
this
<sandro> (yeah, that's a challenge .... looking at how the data was at time T.... (slightly different from how the world was at time T))
john: another big issue is
provenance, what processes it has gone through
... who produced this data in the first place
... we are focusing hard on location information, trying to
align LD work
... with implementation of the EU INSPIRE directive
... every object in EU should have a unique identifier (a
boundary, for example)
... we need to reconcile how this is done with a LD
approach
... second area: statistic, XTNS?? standard heavily used
... we hosted a 2-day workshop to learn how to reconcile both
approaches
<Cory> Paper on change and provenance that may be useful: http://www.modeldriven.org/projects/EKB/Management%20of%20Change%20and%20Provenance%20in%20a%20RDF%20Repository.pdf
john: significant work also went on culture, significant concern from producers
<sandro> (yes - big fear - that this technology allows people to quickly and easily misunderstand the data :-)
john: big concern about loosing
context and how people could interpret the data
... although we have a clear mandate, we talked and talked with
people
... gave them tons of examples, TimBL invested significant time
on this
... huge amount of activity on: policy, technology and cultural
change
<Rachel> correction to comments about about /opengov comment period - it is open for six weeks (not 2)
john: tech going very fast, fantastic people working on it
<george> BIG THANKS TO JS!!! GREAT STUFF!!!!!
sandro: thanks, john, couple
question
... how many people working on this?
john: core team of 10-15 people,
but it spans out, we are kickstarting in several parts of
gov
... statistics workshop alone had 37 people in attendance
... 30-40 officials from various departments also quickly
involved when we needed to solve policy issues
sandro: how much of the published data is linked data?
john: not much, but getting
there
... we did a piece of work on building URIs for UK public
sector
... not LD per se but putting the pillars
... we have been identifying these pillars over the last couple
months
<sandro> (good question: when iso establishes IDs for something, who should make a URI for them?)
george: I very much appreciate
the work you guys are doing across technical and cultural
boundaries
... what's the role played by CKAN and Talis??
john: in order to have single
point of access, we wanted to build OSS tools
... we use Drupal and CKAN
... CKAN is a packaging system for code and data
... it provides a metadata registry service
... Talis provides hosting for LD
... but we want to publish on a distributed way
... they should be able to use other methods in the future,
maybe Talis, maybe their own
... from a government procurement perspective this is good, you
need better competition
... more to choose from, creates a marketplace
... Talis been fantastic in terms of support and expertise, lot
of capability, very helpful
ed: second what George said, very
important work
... do you think of LD as also encompassing the use of RDFa in
pages (not datasets)?
john: absolutely
<edsu> josema: no worries i stumbled through that question :-)
<Daniel_Bennett> +1 John -- exciting work John
<Daniel_Bennett> good luck in Copenhagen.
john: example: if one owns the URI for the county of Norfolk
<sandro> (great stuff, having a separate same-as service to say "we *think* the wikipedia County of Norfolk is the same as our *official* County of Norfolk.")
john: one (gov) is reluctant to say that URI is the same as the one from the wikipedia
<Cory> Technical point: sameAs as an overly strong assertion - need Equivelent class
john: referring to that country
because *one* is the official authoritative resource
... we are learning heaps and heaps
... you need to try this stuff out and experiment
<Cory> Cont... Need equivelent for "instances"
john: also massive is that we are not making happy many of the pragmatic people in search of data
<sandro> (yes, just providing linked data is not enough for developers -- some need JSON)
john: hence our API/JSON/XML
approach
... potentially a huge win for LD standards
karen: thanks, john, helps me get more context, too
<george> isn't JSON serialization a part of 'RDF Futures'?
karen: US and UK initiatives,
josema in Spain, you going to Denmark
... big question: how we can/shoud connect this IG,
internationally effort better with those?
<karen> +1 JohnSheridan "World Tour" :)
karen: probably better for next time
<george> thanks all
sandro: time is over
... we're adjourned
... next meeting on Feb 17
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