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Provenance Working Group Teleconference

16 Feb 2012

Agenda

See also: IRC log

Attendees

Present
pgroth, +1.509.967.aaaa, Luc, Curt_Tilmes, SamCoppens, Helena, tlebo, dgarijo?, MacTed, Yolanda, jcheney, Satya_Sahoo, jun, [IPcaller]
Regrets
Mike, Lang
Chair
Paul Groth
Scribe
Eric Stephan

Contents


<trackbot> Date: 16 February 2012

<pgroth> Scribe: Eric Stephan

Admin

pgroth: Paul still has to do the minues of the f2f2 meeting.
... will be getting to it asap

<pgroth> Minutes of the Feb 9 2012 Telecon: http://www.w3.org/2011/prov/meeting/2012-02-09

<Curt> +1

<tlebo> +1

+1

<jun> +1

<Helena> +1

<SamCoppens> +1

<pgroth> Approved: Minutes of the Feb 9 2012 Telecon

<pgroth> http://www.w3.org/2011/prov/track/actions/open

pgroth: go over open actions, but not all
... Action #52:

<dgarijo> +1 for the minutes too

pgroth: Action-52 not closed yet because of 105

<pgroth> Engage implementation task force to begin developing of a test harness around examples (from tim or others)

<MacTed> s/of 106/of Issue-105/

bring in HCLS and hoping stephan can validdate.

Who was speaking?

<Helena> ERICstephan: I was speaking

<dgarijo> that sounds very interesting indeed.

thank you

<Luc> date was not set

pgroth: action-63 due in one week's time

PROV-DM Simplification

pgroth: need more scribes after next week

<pgroth> ACTION-62: Provide a preliminary simplified introduction to the data model

<trackbot> ACTION-62 Provide a preliminary simplified introduction to the data model 16 Feb notes added

<MacTed> action-62?

<trackbot> ACTION-62 -- Luc Moreau to provide a preliminary simplified introduction to the data model 16 Feb -- due 2012-02-16 -- OPEN

<trackbot> http://www.w3.org/2011/prov/track/actions/62

<Luc> http://www.w3.org/2011/prov/wiki/ProvDMWorkingDraft4

pgroth: update and produce intro to simplification

Luc: Wiki page describes current work
... 3 parts, dropping the notion of account records
... 3 levels of description and removed one of the levels, positive feedback
... 2nd doc, events, attributes been given values over periods of time, and constraints designed to data model
... Last section, scrappy vs proper provenance. Consider various levels of description provide different refinements
... Move out the grammer and put it in a different document

<pgroth> +q

<dgarijo> @Eric: I think it's scruffy, not scruppy ;)

Luc: at the moment, the working copy there is not an editors draft yet

<pgroth> Goals of the review:

<pgroth> decide whether the new documents are inline with the simplification objective

<pgroth> recommend whether they become the new editor's draft

for the reviewers, do the documents align with the simplification goals

Luc: (these comments written by me from Luc)
... If we can get agreement based on recommendations from the reviewers next week

+q

MacTed: How do you give editor comments "this sentence is unweildy" (example)

Luc: Add it to wiki page

pgroth: assign specific reviewers with specific tasks

<Luc> @helena, these are internal reviewers

<MacTed> s/wiki page/http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2011\/prov\/wiki\/ProvDMWorkingDraft4#Feedback_on_These_Working_Copies/

<pgroth> TimL

<tlebo> +1

<jun> I can also do it

pgroth: confirm Tim +1, Eric +1, Graham ?, Daniel + 1, MacTed +1, Curt +1 (already done)

<SamCoppens> I can also

<pgroth> EricS, Daniel, Jun, MacTed, Curt, SamCoppens

<jun> the new structure looks good at a glance

PROV-O Ontology updated

pgroth: next topic, updated OWL file
... released and Satya update?

<satya> http://www.w3.org/2011/prov/wiki/ProvRDF

<dgarijo> and the summaries of the call are at: http://www.w3.org/2011/prov/wiki/PIL_OWL_Ontology

satya: after 2 weeks agreed on a series of changes

<pgroth> owl file is at: http://dvcs.w3.org/hg/prov/raw-file/default/ontology/ProvenanceOntology.owl

satya: all incorporated in doc, there are still a number of issues, but for now the most recent changes have been reflected

<dgarijo> Changes (which are the titan pad logs): http://www.w3.org/2011/prov/wiki/PIL_OWL_Ontology_Meeting_2012-02-13, http://www.w3.org/2011/prov/wiki/PIL_OWL_Ontology_Meeting_2012-02-14

pgroth: PROV-O, does it have a good alignment with PROV-DM working draft 3?
... has the ontology provide a simplified naming?
... does the ontology fit within OWL with itself and does it create some type of natural RDF?
... reviewers, does it meet these goals any questions on review period

luc: what process are we going to use to align PROV-O and PROV-DM?

<dgarijo> +q

pgroth: good question can we defer to next section?

dgarijo: alignment be discussed in PROV-O task force?

Luc: alignment could be both directions

<jcheney> alignment deliverable ==? ProvRDF?

<dgarijo> +1 to pgroth.

Luc: alignmnet deliverable and raise issues against that?

<dgarijo> smiles and Jun have already provided some feedback :)

<stephenc> OK

<Curt> I'll be going over PROV-O too.

pgroth: another one week review, confirm, Luc +1, Paolo +1, Eric +1, Stephen C +1, Curt +1

<pgroth> Review prov-o: Luc, paolo, EricS, Stephen, Curt

<satya> Thanks everyone for the reviewing!

pgroth: same process applies, goes to list and we talk about it next week.

ProvRDF Mappings

jcheney: did this for a small subset for PROV-DM during f2f2.
... Tim has been adding record form from PROV-DM to collections of RDF triples

http://www.w3.org/2011/prov/wiki/ProvRDF

<dgarijo> yes, more or less.

pgroth: Is what we see in the doc, in the right hand side of the page reflect the current prov-o ontology?

<tlebo> @paul, that is the intent. If the RHS are not aligned with the OWL file, ISSUES should be raised.

jcheney: left hand side match DM working draft 3

pgroth: how do we sync prov-o prov-dm?
... in the issue tracker, make a new deliverable for mappings, if inconsistencies report them there.

<satya> +1 @Paul

<dgarijo> @pgroth:+1

jcheney: making deliverable in tracker, that it makes a separate deliverable in working group? Paulg no

<Zakim> tlebo, you wanted to ask if it can become an appendix of the PROV-O HTML

<satya> @Tim: I agree

tlebo: useful and at least interesting to PROV-O html doc

<dgarijo> +1 to Tim's point.

<dgarijo> If it helped us, it could help other people too...

<pgroth> ack I hung up

luc: we can close action-56?

jcheney: +1

satya: action on me is closed?

<satya> ok

pgroth: action is still open based on action-105

<satya> thanks!

pgroth: okay on deliverable on RDF mappings?

who spoke?

<tlebo> macted did

MacTed: not sure this is going to meet the goals of harmonization

<tlebo> @macted, what are you looking for?

<Luc> created https://www.w3.org/2011/prov/track/products/9

<satya> can you please explain macted?

<jcheney> http://www.w3.org/2011/prov/wiki/HarmonizingProvDMAndProvO

<dgarijo> @satya: I think he is just concerned about the naming

satya: What are you suggesting macted?

<dgarijo> of the document..

MacTed: harmony does not equate to RDF mapping to me

<pgroth> Raise Issue against Product 9

luc: posting url to new product I created, to raise issues in the tracker between PROV-DM and PROV-O

Timetable for Release

<satya> @Luc, I just mailed you to close ISSUE-105

pgroth: what should be the goal of the release?
... sync one version of working draft against another for ( Prov-dm, prov-o, and prov-primer)

luc: the whole point was that we change the presentation, simplify, but we do not change any of the terms

<dgarijo> so then we are already done :D :D

<dgarijo> @satya: Account is now "bundle"

luc: if you have aligned the prov-o to the current working draft you have aligned them

<Luc> @Satya, i closed issue-105 and action-52

pgroth: those set of issues need to be addressed before wd4

luc: wd4 March 1
... without sync with prov-o

pgroth: when do we do a sync release within the group? reviews this week, two weeks for alignment, propose March 14?

<pgroth> Deadline to release internally to the WG for review of primer + dm + ontology sync release March 14

luc: what does the prov-o team think?

<satya> yes, we now concentrate on html

<satya> document

satya: On our monday meeting we are already started restructuring HTML, maybe by next Thursday report progress?
... maybe 2 weeks time reasonable?

pgroth: key comments, is raising all issues on the mapping styles and harmonization products, what is remaining to achieve harmonization?
... I think we should aim for 14th

luc: concern that we are drifting again on the time table.
... We need to Start working on 5th working draft
... working in parallel on 5th working draft
... finalize timeline next week?

<pgroth> suggestion March 14, but finalize next week

+1 agree with luc

Agent Types

pgroth: Tim it stays where its been
... agent typings discussion in the mail list
... concerns about not broad enough use cases

<pgroth> ttp://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-prov-wg/2012Feb/0225.html

pgroth: can we get concensus for a vote today?

<pgroth> Current: Person, Software Agent, Organization

<pgroth> Proposal: Change core agent subtypes to Human, System, Organization

<Curt> European (Organisation) or American (Organization) spelling?

<MacTed> +1 to change, with z spelling

<dgarijo> +1

<tlebo> -1 b/c organizations are systems

<Luc> @paul, wasn't it ComputingSystem ?

<dgarijo> @tim: but they are not all disjoint, right?

<Curt> +1 Systems can include persons or organizations, but are still distinct from them

<dgarijo> @tim: so an Organization CAN be a system.

<dgarijo> I'd say that Human and System are disjoint though.

<stephenc> Would prov:Human be a subclass of foaf:Person?

satya: when a human is not regarded in the context of an agent is there a problem?

<tlebo> abstain. Agent has been hard enough. I'll make my own subtypes.

<dgarijo> +q

zednik: Why human over person?

what if an animal is an agent?

agreed with tlebo

<MacTed> thinking deeper.... foaf:Person <> prov:Person, which is clearer if we say prov:Human

<jun> do we have a use case to drive sub-typing agent? I am against over sub-typing

<MacTed> prov:Human may be but is not necessarily prov:Agent

zednik: talk about humans without typing them automatically to agent?

<MacTed> prov:Agent might have *range* (as opposed to subClass) which includes foaf:Person, prov:Human, prov:Person...

<tlebo> +1 to avoiding direct connection to FOAF.

<dgarijo> @why are you against? If prov is supposed to be a generic ontology, you will have to adapt it to you domain imo

<dgarijo> @jun

jun: what is driving this task?

<satya> @Jun, +1 - subytping leads to reduced interoperability

pgroth: We already agreed about these broad categories and wanted to get agreement on naming

<zednik_> is agent itself enough to address the use cases?

MacTed: What is the distinction?

<Luc> and originally software ...

MacTed: Human and Inhuman?

<jcheney> Suggest Nonhuman instead of Inhuman - a human can be inhuman.

link to use case?

<tlebo> is a foaf:Organization Human or InHuman?

<zednik_> what attributes are different for human vs nonhuman in prov?

<jun> @jcheney, +1. if we have to have it, then at least we have nonhuman

<zednik_> what relations are different for human vs nonhuman?

<satya> jcheney, tlebo :)

<MacTed> human vs nonhuman is fine with me ... once I understand why the distinction is necessary here...

<tlebo> we can kill -9 NonHuman without going to jail

lol tlebo

<pgroth> http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-prov-wg/2012Feb/0159.html

<MacTed> but corporations are people! ;-)

is a cow a system on a dairy farm?

<satya> I think this is one of our best discussion in the WG :o)

<zednik_> what is our definition of system?

<pgroth> +q

pgroth: there is a key use case, it looks like there was naming, but we get on phone call and no consensus.
... would like to issue this to be done. This is a necessary to have.
... Will email around again this use case.

<tlebo> bye bye!

<zednik_> bye

bye

<pgroth> trackbot, end telecon

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