13:00:22 RRSAgent has joined #egov 13:00:22 logging to http://www.w3.org/2010/03/31-egov-irc 13:00:31 trackbot, start telcon 13:00:33 RRSAgent, make logs public 13:00:35 Zakim, this will be EGOV 13:00:35 ok, trackbot, I see T&S_EGOV(DMngmnt)8:00AM already started 13:00:36 chair: josema 13:00:36 Meeting: eGovernment Interest Group Teleconference 13:00:36 Date: 31 March 2010 13:01:06 agenda+Agenda adjustments and next meetings 13:01:15 agenda+ Review of open actions 13:01:25 agenda+ Projects: status report from coordinators 13:01:32 John has joined #egov 13:01:38 agenda+ What's going on / coming up 13:01:47 agenda+ Discussion on data catalogues 13:01:50 agenda? 13:01:59 zakim, who's here? 13:01:59 On the phone I see George 13:02:00 On IRC I see John, RRSAgent, Zakim, OwenAmbur, josema, Chris, sandro, trackbot 13:02:19 cygri has joined #egov 13:02:42 zakim, this is egov 13:02:42 sandro, this was already T&S_EGOV(DMngmnt)8:00AM 13:02:43 ok, sandro; that matches T&S_EGOV(DMngmnt)8:00AM 13:02:49 zakim, who is on the phone? 13:02:49 On the phone I see George 13:02:56 zakim, what is the code? 13:02:56 the conference code is 3468 (tel:+1.617.761.6200 tel:+33.4.89.06.34.99 tel:+44.117.370.6152), sandro 13:03:37 hi folks. is the call *now*? i can't dial in, it tells me the conference is restricted 13:03:42 yeah. 13:03:44 saem 13:03:45 it's broken. 13:03:47 *same 13:03:56 Me too... 13:04:05 bugger... 13:04:07 I don't even get the error message 13:04:30 edsu has joined #egov 13:04:51 I can see the e-Gov IG note now - "Best Practices in using Technology.... Don't!" lol 13:05:00 zakim sees George but he's not on IRC, so we cannot ask him :( 13:05:00 disconnecting the lone participant, George, in T&S_EGOV(DMngmnt)8:00AM 13:05:03 T&S_EGOV(DMngmnt)8:00AM has ended 13:05:03 Attendees were George 13:05:41 I wish. 13:05:45 I'm trying to reach someone. 13:05:57 ok, thx, sandro 13:06:09 fadi has joined #egov 13:06:40 I think I'm in... 13:06:48 accepted the code 13:06:52 is the meeting over? 13:06:53 zakim, who's here? 13:06:53 apparently T&S_EGOV(DMngmnt)8:00AM has ended, josema 13:06:55 On IRC I see fadi, edsu, cygri, John, RRSAgent, Zakim, OwenAmbur, josema, Chris, sandro, trackbot 13:07:07 No, the meeting is supposed to start now. 13:07:12 Chris, did you hear a beep? 13:07:16 yup 13:07:21 hmmm.... 13:07:36 dead air atm - cause I think I'm alone - no - someone else is on - very faint 13:07:49 Chris and I are on.... 13:08:16 seems to be working now. 13:08:37 zakim, who is here? 13:08:37 apparently T&S_EGOV(DMngmnt)8:00AM has ended, sandro 13:08:38 yup i'm in 13:08:39 On IRC I see fadi, edsu, cygri, John, RRSAgent, Zakim, OwenAmbur, josema, Chris, sandro, trackbot 13:08:52 zakim, this is egov 13:08:52 ok, sandro; that matches T&S_EGOV()9:00AM 13:09:01 zakim, who is on the call? 13:09:01 On the phone I see George, [LC], Chris, +0203334aaaa, Sandro, [IPcaller], nunolopes, +03498429aabb 13:09:14 agenda? 13:09:21 Zakim, LC is edsu 13:09:24 +edsu; got it 13:09:39 +??P16 13:10:22 agenda? 13:11:34 scribe: edsu 13:11:52 TOPIC: Agenda adjustments and next meetings 13:12:00 zakim, next agendum 13:12:00 agendum 1. "Agenda adjustments and next meetings" taken up [from josema] 13:12:08 josema: next meeting April 14th, need a scribe 13:13:19 Zakim, next agendum 13:13:19 agendum 2. "Review of open actions" taken up [from josema] 13:13:20 http://www.w3.org/egov/IG/track/actions/open 13:13:44 zakim, who's here? 13:13:44 On the phone I see George, edsu, Chris, +0203334aaaa, Sandro, [IPcaller], nunolopes, +03498429aabb, ??P16 13:13:49 On IRC I see fadi, edsu, cygri, John, RRSAgent, Zakim, OwenAmbur, josema, Chris, sandro, trackbot 13:14:09 regrets: kevin, rachel, cory 13:15:00 zakim, nunolopes is cygri 13:15:00 +cygri; got it 13:15:07 zakim, who's on the phone? 13:15:07 On the phone I see George, edsu, Chris, +0203334aaaa, Sandro, [IPcaller], cygri, +03498429aabb, ??P16 13:16:50 I heard some voices in the distance there. 13:17:21 zakim, aabb is me 13:17:21 +josema; got it 13:17:35 zakim, [IPCaller] is probably Owen 13:17:35 +Owen?; got it 13:18:00 zakim, aaaa is probably John 13:18:00 +John?; got it 13:18:34 zakim, ??P16 is Vassilios 13:18:34 +Vassilios; got it 13:18:42 agenda? 13:18:47 zakim, who is on the call? 13:18:55 On the phone I see George, edsu, Chris, John?, Sandro, Owen?, cygri, josema, Vassilios 13:19:15 Zakim, next agendum 13:19:16 agendum 3. "Projects: status report from coordinators" taken up [from josema] 13:19:32 http://www.w3.org/egov/wiki/Projects 13:20:03 josema: george can you report a summary on your project? 13:20:55 george: there's been some discussion about conventions of use for some of the standards, such as dcat, void, etc 13:21:16 george: and trying to evangelize demonstrations that people already have 13:21:29 josema: is there any expected deliverable? 13:21:51 george: we haven't converged on that at this point 13:22:14 josema: so what you have decided to is to act as an aggregator of different initiatives? 13:22:24 george: that's kind of the default yes 13:22:50 ... a reflection of sandro's comment about energy and availability of people involved 13:23:38 josema: is there a sense of doing technical work, as well as a case that could be made for decision makers? 13:24:10 george: yes 13:24:39 josema: there is a need to make a value-proposition to poplicy makers 13:24:48 george: i think there is a good opportunity for that 13:25:12 josema: best practices for using web technologies, chris? 13:25:39 -Owen? 13:25:57 Chris: we tried focus groups for publishing pdf files, and using mobile technology ; got some response about pdf 13:26:20 ... we'll maybe get something written about redaction 13:26:38 ... also some conversations with adobe 13:27:00 ... trying to identify where the interest is 13:27:09 q? 13:27:51 josema: there is some concern about the participation in the groups, which is when we decided to let other organizers go on their own for a bit 13:28:18 Lost my Skype connection 13:28:28 ... hopefully focusing on very specific topics will help 13:28:56 Chris: yeah, we were thinking of putting out short how-tos 13:29:07 ... and go from there 13:30:00 josema: we should clearer ideas about what we should produce, given the charter expiring in october 13:30:16 s/we should/we should have/ 13:30:28 -George 13:30:29 ... don't be afraid of publishing something 13:31:06 ... a working draft can be almost anything ; we shouldn't be afraid of putting drafts out there ; and also people should feel free to use the wiki 13:31:49 ... people seem afraid sometimes 13:32:10 josema: daniel isn't on the call today for best practices 13:32:57 agenda? 13:33:01 Chris: Brian updated the social media project homepage http://www.w3.org/egov/wiki/SocMed 13:33:28 Zakim, next agendum 13:33:28 agendum 4. "What's going on / coming up" taken up [from josema] 13:33:49 josema: sandro could you tell us about fose? http://www.fose.com/Events/FOSE-2010/Home.aspx 13:34:53 sandro: i was on a panel replacing john, with rachel and daniel and kevi 13:35:08 sandro: i'll paste the link for the slides, and the video into irc 13:35:29 ... there wasn't a lot of time for questions, and it seemed like some people were excited about it 13:35:38 http://civsourceonline.com/2010/03/24/open-data-movement-asks-if-you-open-it-who-will-come/ 13:35:39 ... might get some people in the IG as a result 13:36:13 josema: any other news from people on the call? 13:37:07 Chris: i've got a paper accepted to talk about the Metadata Conference in Canberra 13:37:12 The Industry Advisory Council (IAC) will be conducting a study of best practices with respect to the management of records created in social networking services 13:37:49 John: i've got a paper w/ Jeni Tennison to talk about design patterns, provenance, data sets for Linked Data on the Web 13:38:08 Pat Franks will be compiling a similar report under the auspices of IBM's Center for the Business of Government 13:38:23 josema: kevin wanted me to make folks in the US aware of open government meetings about agency plans 13:39:07 It would be nice if agencies posted their open gov plans in open StratML format 13:39:30 If they fail to do so, I will probably convert some, if not all of them to StratML format myself 13:39:40 @Owen - keep me posted on the IAC / Pats stuff - v interested 13:40:04 conference site -- http://www.tecnimap.es/ 13:40:48 ... the National Conference on EGovernment is next week, i will try to send information to the list 13:40:56 agenda? 13:41:18 Zakim, next agendum 13:41:18 agendum 5. "Discussion on data catalogues" taken up [from josema] 13:42:19 scovo http://sw.joanneum.at/scovo/schema.html 13:42:59 cygri: we at DERI are working with people in the UK for expressing statistics in rdf ; the Office of National Statistics in the UK did a workshop for how they should move forward with publishing their data in RDF, and explored using SCOVO and SDMX ; but have started working on an SDMX vocabulary for RDF 13:43:32 cygri: there will be an early initial paper on this at ldow workshop 13:43:46 that will be very useful for us, too 13:44:24 John: this is work that I have commissioned ; once we get a good representation of sdmx for rdf is a key issue for Linked Data in the UK 13:45:09 cygri: i'm distributing my time between the dcat and sdmxrdf 13:45:57 josema: lets say you create that rdf vocab for sdmx, how will the relationship between the xml vocabulary and the rdf vocabulary work 13:46:36 cygri: sdmx started as an edi standard ; it includes an abstract model (uml), and there is an xml syntax 13:47:44 ... since there is an abstract model, we are exploring how possible it would be to translate between the xml and rdf data ; there is a lot of statistical data that's not available as sdmx, so we're thinking about how to easily make that data available as sdmx rdf 13:48:43 John: jeni gave us an xslt demonstration of turning an sdmx xml document into rdf ... we figure the transformation of sdmx xml is going to be pretty straightforward 13:49:37 ... there's also lgdx that is being used, and they have big systems that inhibit switching to something new ; so we want to be able to translate that as well 13:49:38 zakim, who's noisy? 13:49:40 +??P4 13:49:50 josema, listening for 10 seconds I could not identify any sounds 13:50:10 ... once sdmxrdf becomes something we can use we can surface quite a bit of data quite quickly 13:50:48 zakim, who is talking? 13:50:59 sandro, listening for 10 seconds I heard sound from the following: 8 (18%), John? (59%), Vassilios (55%) 13:51:05 -Vassilios 13:51:19 (nice timing) 13:51:42 +??P5 13:52:02 John: we've started to use time interval uris too, which can be used to identify statistical data 13:52:14 josema: sounds like this deserves its own agenda item, some time in the future 13:52:27 slides: http://richard.cyganiak.de/2010/03/dcat-for-egov-ig.pdf 13:52:41 ... i would love to see an agenda item to talk only about this some time in the future 13:53:09 cygri: that's a link for some slides for the work so far 13:53:25 zakim, who's here? 13:53:25 On the phone I see edsu, Chris, John?, Sandro, cygri, josema, ??P4, ??P5 13:53:27 On IRC I see fadi, edsu, cygri, John, RRSAgent, Zakim, OwenAmbur, josema, Chris, sandro, trackbot 13:54:44 josema: ok the floor is yours 13:55:07 cygri: please follow along in the slides http://richard.cyganiak.de/2010/03/dcat-for-egov-ig.pdf 13:55:32 ... most of the work has been by our egov unit and the linked data research center at deri 13:55:53 scribe: Ed Summers 13:55:55 ... it's about enabling the interoperability of government data catalogs we've seen popping up 13:55:57 scribeNick: edsu 13:56:26 q? 13:57:00 going to talk about why it's important ; what's out there now ; what the dcat vocab is ; some experiments we've been doing and where we should go next 13:57:39 cygri: there are more than 30 government data catalogues online 13:58:46 compilation of the ones we found so far http://datos.fundacionctic.org/sandbox/catalog/ and http://datos.fundacionctic.org/sandbox/catalog/map ... 13:58:48 ... these efforts are done by both public and private parties 13:59:04 ... or in RDF as default SPARQL query at http://data.fundacionctic.org/sparql ;) 13:59:33 ... we're interested in this because the information is on the web and we'd like to query across the catalogs 14:00:06 ... so information about san francisco can be found in local, state and federal catalogs 14:00:39 ... in the EU we can see how me might want an eu level catalog ... data.gov.eu 14:01:57 ... it would be nice to see new user interfaces for the data found in data catalogs ; which combine the metadata with the data itself ; also to do rating and social annotation of the data sets 14:03:26 ... most of the data catalogs do export their data in a structured form 14:04:02 ... however each has its own specific format, the documentation for it is lacking 14:05:01 ... we did an in depth survey of 7 catalogs: some national some local 14:05:35 ... we looked at the metadata, looking at the datasets themselves was out of scope 14:07:08 ... we surveyed the types of metadata available 14:07:38 ... quite a lot of metadata fields are shared, which is good news for interoperability 14:08:18 ... we also looked at metadata fields, how consistently it was used, for example date fields 14:08:26 q? 14:10:03 ... we also looked at direct download links 14:10:28 ... sometimes they go directly to the data, but quite often you go to a splash page, with a click through license, and find the download link on the page 14:10:35 q+ 14:10:44 ... this is bad news for automatic processing of the data 14:11:12 End 14:11:16 thx 14:12:13 cygri: the dcat vocab is at http://vocab.deri.ie/dcat ; and an overview is available at http://vocab.deri.ie/dcat-overview 14:12:14 all, queue yourself if you have questions and we'll go through them at the end, thx 14:13:27 cygri: we tried to keep in mind Hepp's Law: to be careful when designing a vocabulary not to make distinctions that aren't present in the data to be integrated 14:13:52 [that was very good advice] 14:14:11 cygri: we don't want to require data cleansing before dcat can be used 14:14:51 cygri: rdf allows extensibility (classes and properties) to express additional information, so we focused on stuff that's in all the catalogs 14:15:29 ... we tried to reuse from dublincore, skos and foaf, and minimized what we created ourselves 14:16:40 ... we introduced dcat:Catalog, dcat:Dataset, dcat:CatalogRecord, dcat:Distribution 14:17:02 ... Distribution is used indicate that format that the dataset is available in 14:17:19 ... for example xml and json would be 2 Distributions 14:17:44 ... categorization of datasets is common, and we used skos for this 14:18:14 ... and the government agency that published the data was modeled with foaf:Organization 14:19:43 ... we loaded some of the datasets into a standard relational database ; and then mapped to rdf with d2r http://lab.linkeddata.deri.ie/govcat/ 14:19:56 ... which has a sparql interface 14:20:11 ... and we linked some things up to geonames and dbpedia 14:20:30 ... for example we linked the agencies to dbpedia 14:21:54 ... we did some example sparql queries for listing datasets that were published by agencies with budgets > a certain amount 14:23:42 ... one of the benefits of using dcat is that it could enable distributed publishing, and federation later 14:23:42 q? 14:24:10 q+ 14:24:22 ... could also potentially allow datasets to be downloaded in an automated fashion 14:24:58 ... also applications that worked on one data catalog could be repurposed 14:25:26 ... we're looking for feedback on the vocabulary, and to get more eyes on the vocab 14:25:43 q+ 14:25:55 ... we're writing up a guide to using dcat 14:26:31 ... at deri we'd like to use dcat w/ voiD for describing rdf datasets 14:27:07 ... also w/ sdmx+rdf ; metadata about the dataset is important 14:27:49 ... what really has to happen is that it needs to happen not only at DERI but elsewhere on the web, by the catalog publishers 14:28:23 This is very important work 14:28:31 q- 14:29:00 ... one question is, as more people are involved how do we organize our work in a distributed way? 14:29:24 ... to what extent would the egov interest group be a good place to do this? 14:29:40 We need something like this for data.gov.uk RDF work 14:29:49 josema: thanks very much, we only have a few minutes for asking questions 14:29:50 ack Chris 14:30:32 Chris: have you done anything with the datacite consortium, and when you were looking at australia did you look at the australian data service? 14:31:14 ack John 14:31:21 cygri: no we just looked at data.gov au, would be interested in that 14:31:30 PROPOSED: to extend the meeting, informally, for 15 minutes 14:31:30 q? 14:32:01 John: i have someone looking at your work right now, would it be possible to version the document, right now it's still in draft 14:32:25 let's say 10, sandro ;) 14:32:42 cygri: we have to provide some documentation about the use of other vocabularies, we have good coverage for the new vocabulary we have introduced 14:32:49 -Chris 14:32:59 John: do you need any help? 14:33:01 q+ 14:33:14 cygri: yes, always :-) perhaps we can discuss offline a bit 14:33:39 ... it has to be driven by working on actual data 14:33:44 edsu: + 14:33:48 q+ 14:33:49 +1 14:34:23 cygri: for v0.1 this is something we have to do here, it's hard to distribute 14:34:56 ack san 14:35:09 josema: we're going to extend the meeting by 10-15 minutes 14:35:32 +1 14:35:49 sandro: this is very important work, i'm hoping that you can get users in the IG to help, but also institutional support from the w3c 14:35:58 We should try and support somehow... 14:36:00 [I want to *thank* edsu for fantastic scribing today, wonderful, many many thanks] 14:36:11 +1 14:36:17 cygri: i'm not sure if we should use the egov mailing list, or create another one (infrastructure) ; we need an issue tracker for this 14:36:39 This is on the nail, practical, just what we need in UK 14:36:50 it's something we also need for our work at CTIC, happy to help from here, preferred if within W3C 14:36:59 ... an IG can publish notes at the w3c, for something like dcat to have moer acceptance an IG Note would have a lot more acceptance 14:37:04 s/moer/more/ 14:37:04 And we can try and implement over next few weeks 14:37:24 sandro: another thing is the namespace for the vocab, perhaps a w3c namespace would lend it more credibility 14:37:29 John: it would for us 14:38:02 q? 14:38:18 sandro: other applications i thought of: not every local gov't would have to make their own catalog, without requiring their own IT dept 14:38:22 Yup! 14:38:29 +1 14:38:46 sandro: also, i was thinking it could be possible to publish mappings w/ dcat 14:38:49 This is much much needed just now 14:38:57 ack me 14:39:23 josema: we really, really need this at my place of work 14:39:36 ... sandro, how should we proceed? 14:39:57 I'd love to see a group note on gov data catalogues 14:40:10 sandro: i'm happy to listen to what richard wants to do 14:40:28 cygri: i haven't followed to closely how the IG is being run with sub-projects 14:40:39 s/to/too 14:41:07 ... with voiD we had good experience getting together a focused group, with a weekly call, with discussion list, issue tracker, and subversion repositoy 14:41:13 s/repositoy/repository/ 14:41:46 ... i would try to replicate what we did w/ voiD 14:42:05 sandro: people seemed to want to use the egov ig discussion list for sub-projects 14:42:29 ... maybe we could try to start on there with a [dcat] tag until someone complains 14:42:33 cygri: i think that could work 14:42:59 sandro: we could schedule a telecon, would richard be ok for chairing them? 14:43:05 cygri: yes, great 14:43:12 http://www.w3.org/egov/wiki/Projects 14:43:29 josema: that's the link fot the current projects 14:43:49 sandro: a lot of those aren't meeting so i wouldn't worry about it too much 14:44:01 fabulous Richard! 14:44:12 +1 14:44:46 -??P4 14:44:48 -John? 14:44:48 josema: next meeting aprl 14th 14:44:49 -cygri 14:44:50 -??P5 14:44:52 -Sandro 14:44:55 josema: we are adjourned 14:44:56 [ADJOURNED] 14:45:02 -josema 14:45:06 yup :) 14:45:07 -edsu 14:45:08 T&S_EGOV()9:00AM has ended 14:45:09 Attendees were George, Chris, +0203334aaaa, Sandro, +03498429aabb, edsu, cygri, josema, Owen?, John?, Vassilios 14:45:17 zakim, list attendees 14:45:17 sorry, josema, I don't know what conference this is 14:45:27 rrsagent, make minutes 14:45:27 I have made the request to generate http://www.w3.org/2010/03/31-egov-minutes.html josema 14:45:31 Zakim: you're not the only one :-) 14:45:42 ed, will you generate the wiki page? 14:45:52 sandro: you helped me w/ that the last time 14:46:03 sandro: is it easy for you to do, or to tell me how to do? 14:46:32 josema++ # thanks for getting richard to talk today, that was really good stuff 14:46:58 my pleasure, thank you! 14:47:16 I can generate the wiki page in a minute and you can review and fix whatever you want to 14:47:21 alright 14:47:30 thanks josema 14:49:28 rrsagent, stop