13:50:28 RRSAgent has joined #rdfa 13:50:28 logging to http://www.w3.org/2010/04/15-rdfa-irc 13:50:33 trackbot, setup meeting 13:50:33 Sorry, manu, I don't understand 'trackbot, setup meeting'. Please refer to http://www.w3.org/2005/06/tracker/irc for help 13:50:43 trackbot, start meeting 13:50:46 RRSAgent, make logs world 13:50:48 Zakim, this will be 7332 13:50:48 ok, trackbot; I see SW_RDFa()10:00AM scheduled to start in 10 minutes 13:50:49 Meeting: RDFa Working Group Teleconference 13:50:49 Date: 15 April 2010 13:51:35 Present: Ivan, Steven, MarkB, Benjamin 13:51:41 Regrets: BenA 13:51:43 Chair: Manu 13:52:12 rrsagent, make logs public 13:53:24 markbirbeck has joined #rdfa 13:55:34 Regrets+ Toby 13:58:54 SW_RDFa()10:00AM has now started 13:59:01 +Benjamin 13:59:38 +??P9 13:59:48 zakim, I am ??P9 13:59:48 +manu; got it 14:00:17 zakim, dial ivan-voip 14:00:17 ok, ivan; the call is being made 14:00:18 +Ivan 14:00:37 ShaneM has joined #rdfa 14:01:15 zakim, code? 14:01:16 the conference code is 7332 (tel:+1.617.761.6200 tel:+33.4.89.06.34.99 tel:+44.117.370.6152), markbirbeck 14:01:27 Knud has joined #rdfa 14:01:49 +knud 14:01:56 +markbirbeck 14:02:21 zakim, dial steven-617 14:02:21 ok, Steven; the call is being made 14:02:22 +Steven 14:02:49 zakim is being stupid 14:03:10 zakim, be nice to ShaneM 14:03:10 I don't understand 'be nice to ShaneM', markbirbeck 14:03:15 Agenda: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-rdfa-wg/2010Apr/0062.html 14:03:16 thought so 14:03:31 +ShaneM 14:04:08 scribenick: ivan 14:04:42 Topic: Admin issues 14:04:56 manu: a couple of resolutions should be on records, 14:05:02 ... get the issues closed 14:05:12 ... and have a resolution on getting fpwd-s 14:05:27 http://www.doodle.com/uqe9pxru7eu8n7d8 14:05:28 manu: we had a poll that we did not record 14:05:41 zakim, mute me 14:05:41 knud should now be muted 14:05:44 manu: this covered the four items that had a wide agreement 14:05:53 ... first: supporting of @profiles 14:06:13 ... looking at it there were 2 against, we covered their reasons 14:06:21 ... we should not rehash that 14:06:36 PROPOSAL: Support the general concept of RDFa Profiles - an external document that specifies keywords for CURIEs. 14:07:29 +1 14:07:38 +1 14:07:38 +1 14:07:41 +1 14:07:47 +1 14:07:50 +1 14:07:56 This is not a vote 14:07:57 +1 14:08:09 RESOLVED: Support the general concept of RDFa Profiles - an external document that specifies keywords for CURIEs. 14:08:38 PROPOSAL: Support the concept of having a default prefix mechanism without RDFS resolution. 14:08:41 +1 14:08:50 +1 14:08:50 +1 14:08:51 +1 14:08:55 +1 14:08:59 +1 14:09:16 +1 14:09:26 RESOLVED: Support the concept of having a default prefix mechanism without RDFS resolution. 14:10:09 PROPOSAL: Support expressing the RDFa Profile document in RDFa (for example: rdfa:prefix/rdfa:keyword, or rdfa:alias) 14:10:16 +1 14:10:18 +1 14:10:19 +1 14:10:23 +1 14:10:32 +1 14:11:12 +1 14:11:13 -1 14:12:19 steven: mark, do you oppose it 14:12:37 mark: if 'one of the possible mechanism would be rdfa' 14:12:49 ... I think we can still have that discussion 14:13:10 manu: we had a bit of discussions with that wording and we had a general discussion based on that 14:13:25 RESOLVED: Support expressing the RDFa Profile document in RDFa (for example: rdfa:prefix/rdfa:keyword, or rdfa:alias) 14:13:32 ... looking at the proposal and the +1-s I would resolve it and we can have a discussion at a later stage 14:14:12 PROPOSAL: Provide an alternate mechanism to express mappings that does not depend on xmlns: (for example: @token, @vocab or @map) 14:14:20 +1 14:14:25 +1 14:14:26 +1 14:14:29 +1 14:14:32 -1 14:14:32 +1 14:14:50 ivan: same question to steven... does he oppose or can live with it? 14:15:18 steven: I was not sure whether I should say -1 or 0, an alternate means 'as well as' 14:15:27 +1 14:15:27 manu: this is really for languages without xmlns: 14:15:52 ... and html5 is debatable, but the html wg folks are claiming so 14:16:03 ... the vast majority of our arguments revolved around that 14:16:14 ... let us assume that there are languages that do not have xmlns: 14:16:20 ... for them this makes it easier 14:16:21 Moreover using xmlns pollutes the namespaces of a parser unnecessarily. 14:16:40 Steven: I do not agree that html5 does not fall into this category 14:16:43 q+ 14:16:48 ack ivan 14:17:58 RESOLVED: Provide an alternate mechanism to express mappings that does not depend on xmlns: (for example: @token, @vocab or @map) 14:18:12 ivan: what about deprecating xmlns? 14:18:19 Topic: xmlns: deprecation in RDFa 1.1 14:18:21 ... it is in the current version of the rdfa core 14:18:42 +1 for deprecation of xmlns: 14:18:49 -1 for deprecation 14:18:50 Ivan: I can live with deprecation of xmlns: 14:19:08 Ivan: we need a resolution for this 14:19:16 shane: I did off-line doing this unilateraly 14:19:32 ... I agree that this should be accepted by the wg 14:19:38 ... having two is confusing 14:19:53 manu: the reason I thought we would be going 14:20:02 ... the issue is confusing having two of them 14:20:09 ... we had that discussion before 14:20:10 I disagree more strongly on this one than the last 14:20:20 ... we probably would have done differently 14:20:30 steven: I am against deprecating it 14:20:30 q+ 14:20:44 ... I do not like breaking backward compatibility 14:20:48 manu: it does not 14:21:01 ... deprecation means a strong a signal not to use 14:21:15 shane: technically it means it is not removed yet but it can be 14:21:31 ack mark 14:21:36 ... steven, if it said 'prefix is preferred, is that fine'? 14:21:38 steven: yes 14:21:46 mark: that means there is a decision to remove it 14:21:56 ... we have to send a strong signal 14:22:48 ... I do not agree that we would have done it differently 14:23:01 q+ to clarify "we'd do it differently" 14:23:10 ... at the time we used what w3c had an emphasis on at the time 14:23:20 +1 to marks concern 14:23:54 ack manu 14:23:54 manu, you wanted to clarify "we'd do it differently" 14:23:54 +1 to Mark 14:24:59 "xmlns is discouraged"? 14:25:00 is my audio breaking up? 14:25:09 +1 to Knud 14:25:43 PROPOSED: the FPWD should say something like "prefix is preferred" but not explicitly deprecate xmlns 14:25:46 -ShaneM 14:25:47 +ShaneM 14:26:06 PROPOSAL: the FPWD should say something like "prefix is preferred" but not explicitly deprecate xmlns 14:26:20 +1 14:26:21 +1 14:26:22 +1 14:26:28 +1 14:26:31 +1 14:26:31 I can live with that 14:28:31 0 14:29:52 PROPOSAL: Remove mention of "xmlns: is deprecated" from the RDFa Core 1.1 FPWD 14:30:08 +1 14:30:08 +1 14:30:10 +1 14:30:23 +1 14:30:23 +1 14:30:24 +1 14:30:29 RESOLVED: Remove mention of "xmlns: is deprecated" from the RDFa Core 1.1 FPWD 14:30:35 +1 14:31:03 Topic: Resolve to publish RDFa Core 1.1 and XHTML+RDFa 1.1 FPWD 14:31:16 manu: shane, an overview? 14:31:46 shane: as far as can see, modulo pubrules, the document is in agreement with the resolutions of the group 14:31:56 ... fpwd does not have to be perfect 14:32:17 ... xhtml did not have the same review than core, but that is all right, there is nothing there:-) 14:32:26 ... i have concerns about the core 14:32:42 ... as soon as we put it out to the public, we will have the public reacting 14:32:55 http://www.w3.org/2010/02/rdfa/drafts/ 14:33:11 http://www.w3.org/2010/02/rdfa/drafts/2010/ED-rdfa-core-20100414/ 14:33:20 http://www.w3.org/2010/02/rdfa/drafts/2010/ED-xhtml-rdfa-20100413/ 14:33:25 q+ 14:33:34 ack ivan 14:34:08 PROPOSAL: Publish RDFa Core 1.1 as First Public Working Draft 14:34:53 Ivan: Are we going to publish RDFa DOM API now as well? 14:35:37 Ivan: I think people might misunderstand that publishing RDFa DOM API at a later date as something negative. 14:35:46 q+ to discuss RDFa DOM API publication 14:35:50 q+ 14:36:19 Ivan: I'm concerned that people may think we're not concerned about the RDFa DOM API 14:36:23 ack markbirbeck 14:36:30 mark: I can understand where you get Ivan 14:36:33 ... but I disagree 14:36:52 ...the audience to this spec is very different 14:37:12 .. my feeling is that the rdfa core and the xhtml will go unnoticed 14:37:21 ... but the rdfa itself is the story 14:37:30 ... however the dom api is a different audience 14:37:41 ... we really think we should aim at the html authors 14:37:42 q+ 14:37:46 ack manu 14:37:46 manu, you wanted to discuss RDFa DOM API publication 14:37:51 manu: I agree with mark 14:38:13 ... i do not want us to get into mind set where we think that the different specs that are not tied together 14:38:23 ... we should not create a binding among them 14:38:33 ... suppose we get all of ivan's fears 14:38:41 ... we have to have to courage to take the heat 14:38:54 ... we are not talking about pushing the dom api by a couple of week 14:39:05 s/that are not tied/are tied/ 14:39:07 ... if those weeks end up with nasty remarks 14:39:19 ... we will publish the api document soon enough 14:39:22 ack ivan 14:40:07 s/by a couple of weeks/by a couple of months 14:40:15 Fair point Ivan. I was bending the stick too far. :) 14:41:16 -knud 14:41:21 argh 14:41:35 Ivan: I hope I'm being paranoid - and I wouldn't object to FPWD. 14:41:44 s/by couple of months/by a couple of weeks/ 14:41:51 @Knud: We're only editing the record, not people's opinions! 14:41:52 Ivan: I think these are the same audiences - we've changed some pretty major stuff. 14:42:10 +knud 14:42:16 PROPOSAL: Publish RDFa Core 1.1 as First Public Working Draft 14:43:05 +1 14:43:05 +0.5 14:43:06 +1 14:43:07 +1 14:43:10 +1 14:43:11 +1 14:43:11 :) 14:43:22 +1 14:43:36 RESOLVED: Publish RDFa Core 1.1 as First Public Working Draft 14:44:00 PROPOSAL: Publish XHTML+RDFa 1.1 as First Public Working Draft 14:44:04 +1 14:44:04 +1 14:44:06 +1 14:44:07 +1 14:44:09 +1 14:44:13 +0.5 (just to be consistent) 14:44:23 I was wondering what you'd do. :) 14:44:24 +1 14:44:29 RESOLVED: Publish XHTML+RDFa 1.1 as First Public Working Draft 14:46:45 clap clap clap 14:46:50 wohooo 14:46:52 etc 14:46:56 Nice work Shane! 14:47:08 topic: rdfa dom api 14:47:25 manu: I have not put the api on the focus on the agendas 14:47:35 ... we are not prepared to publish already 14:47:48 ... mark and and I had discussion on how to improve 14:47:54 q+ To apologise for causing delay on DOM API. 14:48:02 ... what we want to do is to focus solely on the dom api for the coming 2 weeks 14:48:21 Current version of the RDFa DOM API document: http://www.w3.org/2010/02/rdfa/sources/rdfa-dom-api/ 14:48:29 mark: apologize for causing delay, I was away with no internet connection... 14:48:44 And the latest version of the Javascript prototype: http://www.w3.org/2010/02/rdfa/sources/rdfa-dom-api/rdfa_dom_api.js 14:48:55 ... the key issue I am trying to push this towards 14:49:18 ... we should give people an api to select the elements of the dom that resulted in a triple in the triple store 14:49:32 ... I put something up today for us to discuss 14:49:47 manu: the concern I had is that I cannot implement that in ff using the parser 14:50:04 ... i know we are talking about an rdfa api 14:50:22 ... but it will be very difficult to implement that for implementers 14:50:31 ... i do not know how to implement that in c and c++ 14:50:38 mark: i think it is pretty easy 14:50:46 manu: i should see some code 14:50:58 ... if we cannot implement it in the c and c++ then it is easy 14:51:11 mark: this raises the question what we want to achieve with this api 14:51:26 ... just querying triples is not really useful 14:51:54 manu: that is not what i mean; if we want people to write ff extensions that modify the dom and give them an extra methods 14:52:12 ... this is usually done is c and c++, mainly with @profile means this is the way to be done 14:52:34 ... I do not think you can do it in pure javascript 14:52:41 ... i do not care about, say, redland 14:52:57 ... it is the restrictions of ff and chrome that puts on developers 14:53:15 mark: if we want to do something for the browser we have to see what is useful 14:53:18 +1 to what Mark just said. 14:53:28 ... we may need an additional thing in the api 14:53:44 ... maybe we need some events that get passed 14:53:54 ... we have to try to solve this rather than drop it 14:54:30 manu: with that said, do you have examples of extending the Document object in FF not using javascript and not something else>? 14:55:02 markbirbeck: we had all kinds of things experimented with in our xforms work, there are lots of stuffs we are looking at 14:55:18 manu: are you opposed getting just triples in javascript? 14:55:44 markbirbeck: i do not have a problem with some kind of layering 14:55:55 ... eg in sparql you have the notion of projection 14:56:08 ... the result is the set of results with all kinds of properties 14:56:16 ... you get back objects 14:56:32 ... that is natural for js programmers 14:56:34 q+ 14:56:37 The current API version may be easily extended to query DOM nodes with certain RDFa content. 14:56:37 ack markbirbeck 14:56:37 markbirbeck, you wanted to apologise for causing delay on DOM API. 14:56:38 ack mark 14:57:07 markbirbeck: i have not looked at other languages, we may have a language specific holes where objects can be used 14:57:22 ... and languages should fill that in 14:57:36 ... but all objects have a pointer at that element where the triple comes from 14:57:59 q+ 14:58:23 ... we get both the semantics and the element that produced that 14:58:26 ack ivan 14:59:38 q+ to discuss triples-as-objects 14:59:41 -1 to Ivans proposal 14:59:48 ack benjamin 15:00:04 Ivan: We don't have to provide a full implementation when doing FPWD 15:00:13 Benjamin: when you look at the document you can see that you cannot publish it 15:00:26 ... I think we should reach a concensus about the general style of the document 15:00:49 ... we should get a feeling for what the api would look like 15:00:51 q- 15:00:55 q+ to end the telecon 15:01:04 ... add mark's proposal to this and see how it works together 15:01:10 Remember that published documents have their own momentum... Once it starts rolling in a certain direction it is hard to change. The faster it rolls the harder it is to redirect. 15:01:40 manu: mark, what would help us most is to give us examples 15:01:47 ... see how we can have this happen 15:01:53 meeting adjurned 15:02:10 -markbirbeck 15:02:12 -Steven 15:02:14 -knud 15:02:20 -Benjamin 15:02:31 +1 to what Shane just said 15:02:50 +1.5 15:03:00 (I'm using up the bits that Ivan didn't use. :)) 15:03:16 zakim, who is on the call? 15:03:39 http://www.w3.org/2010/02/rdfa/sources/rdfa-core/Overview-src.html 15:04:02 On the phone I see manu, Ivan, ShaneM 15:06:04 zakim, drop me 15:06:13 Ivan is being disconnected 15:06:15 -Ivan 15:06:17 -manu 15:06:19 SW_RDFa()10:00AM has ended 15:06:23 Attendees were Benjamin, manu, Ivan, knud, markbirbeck, Steven, ShaneM 15:07:22 rrsagent, draft minutes 15:07:22 I have made the request to generate http://www.w3.org/2010/04/15-rdfa-minutes.html manu 15:10:38 ShaneM has left #rdfa 16:39:41 rrsagent, bye 16:39:41 I see no action items 16:39:43 zakim, bye