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<scribe> Scribe: Jeff Waters
<scribe> ScribeNick: jeffw
jeffw: Hello all, thanks for
attending this meeting of the Decisions Incubator. We have a
fun few remaining meetings to finish our final report, package
up our ontology patterns, and recommend transition to a working
group.
... I repackaged the draft charter into a more modern template.
To see an example of a recent Working Group Charter, see
http://www.w3.org/2008/01/media-annotations-wg.html
... Aaron thanks for your email on our discussion of the
security issues that we can add to the report, I will follow-up
with you later today.
... Piotr, thanks for your contributions in your recent email
and I will include in our final report.
... (I took notes off-line and am now updating the chat for
purposes of providing a record for our minutes)
... The Decisions incubator participants previously indicated
their unanimous interest in transitioning the Decisions
incubator to a Decisions working group. The first step for
considering this was to draft a working group charter.
... A sample charter was sent along with the agenda for our
last meeting and we discussed it then. An important feature of
the charter was the inclusion of motivating use cases, covering
common needs including making selections/purchases on the web,
documenting collaborative web decisions e.g. standards working
groups, capturing expertise of good decision-makers,
representing historical decisions/options/metrics, and the
ability to support emergency man
... The charter format I used was an older format, so I
restructured the content into the more modern template. I'm
still cleaning that up and I will send out today or tomorrow
via email. Please review.
... The next steps are these: Please consider vetting the
concept of the working group and use cases with those who have
standards or decision expertise, those who might be interested
in participating, and with your AC rep.
... Then after our next meeting, I will forward along to W3C
staff with the request to be informed of how best to request
permission to proceed with the transition.
... Does that make sense?
Aaron: Yes, this is a good opportunity for our organization for example to show applications for the Small Business Innovation Research Grants.
piotr_nowara: I will reachout on my own. For example, there is a gentleman from Canada who spotted my website on decisions ontology and others.
jeffw: Sounds good. I'm hoping
the use cases that we included in the draft charter can help
explain the benefits to a wide audience who might not otherwise
recognize immediately that this applies to them and is not
isolated to decision support systems.
... If it makes sense, I will include these use cases on the
wiki so if you do reachout via email, you can include a link to
them, which may be helpful. And I will include the information
task flow use case and the security use case.
... At our next meeting, we'll report out who we talked to and
what we learned to get good feedback on the charter concepts
and also who else might be interested in participating.
jeffw: We need to draft the final
report over next week and into the following so we can review
at our next meeting in two weeks. Then we'll finalize and
approve at our final meeting.
... Is the outline of the final report on the main page of our
wiki appropriate? Are we missing anything? Should we condense
anything?
eblomqvi: I think we might be able to merge some sections, maybe use cases and requirements. For the others, we have some pieces already and we can start putting them in. I don't think we missed anything.
Aaron: I think it covers all the pieces, but did we want a section on Security or will we cover that as a thread throughout the report.
jeffw: That's a really good point, Aaron, I think we need a section on Security and you would be a good person to lead that. Also I should have a use case covering that.
piotr_nowara: I agree with the others. A list of competency questions with a respective decision format would be good. Maybe those would appear in a Frequently Asked Questions section, a list of what can be described in our format.
eblomqvi: I think that's covered in some of our use cases, the competency questions, and we can extend. Also wouldn't this be in the requirements section and then the formats realize a certain set?
jeffw: Good points. I think we
already begin to define the competency questions with each use
case to help drive the requirements, then the formats are
designed to support those requirements, and then we actually
have perhaps a missing section that would be Test Cases where
we would show a set of SPARQL queries that can be used against
our format to represent those competency questions and show we
can derive the answers.
... (But I'm not advocating at the moment the inclusion of the
Test Cases section, because I don't think we'll have time for
that.)
... So I was thinking that Aaron would be a good one to start
on the Security section, Eva State-of-the-art and Approach, oh
I think that's a missing section?
eblomqvi: Yes, I suppose we haven't really talked about what we did, so we do need to cover the approach.
jeffw: And Piotr, you can cover
the description of your approach with your ontology work. And
Eva and others can help with the alignment of these
contributions, because Piotr has his work and I was advocating
the XML format, but these need to be described as not just
isolated, independent efforts but rather as examples of where
we might go as a working group and how they support and align
with each other.
... That's all we have time for today. Please start writing and
I will do the same, and by late next week, we should have up on
the wiki draft sections so we can keep our schedule.
... Thanks everyone for participating!
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