14:52:25 RRSAgent has joined #prov 14:52:25 logging to http://www.w3.org/2012/04/26-prov-irc 14:52:27 RRSAgent, make logs world 14:52:27 Zakim has joined #prov 14:52:29 Zakim, this will be 14:52:29 I don't understand 'this will be', trackbot 14:52:30 Meeting: Provenance Working Group Teleconference 14:52:30 Date: 26 April 2012 14:52:33 Zakim, this will be PROV 14:52:33 ok, Luc_; I see SW_(PROV)11:00AM scheduled to start in 8 minutes 14:52:47 Agenda: http://www.w3.org/2011/prov/wiki/Meetings:Telecon2012.04.26 14:53:03 Chair: Luc Moreau 14:53:12 Regrets: Paul Groth, James Cheney, Paolo Missier, Satya Sahoo, Olaf Hartig, Simon Miles 14:53:26 rrsagent, make logs public 14:53:35 zakim, who is here? 14:53:35 SW_(PROV)11:00AM has not yet started, Luc_ 14:53:36 On IRC I see RRSAgent, Luc_, MacTed, Luc, stain, trackbot, sandro 14:58:23 Curt has joined #prov 14:58:47 TomDN has joined #prov 14:58:49 SW_(PROV)11:00AM has now started 14:58:52 +??P21 14:58:56 +TomDN 14:58:58 -??P21 14:58:58 -TomDN 14:58:58 +??P21 14:58:58 +TomDN 14:58:58 +Curt_Tilmes 14:59:10 zakim, ??P21 is me 14:59:10 +Luc_; got it 14:59:28 +??P8 14:59:36 hi 15:00:09 I can scribe, but only for 15 minutes - would need backup scribe 15:00:11 we don't have a scribe. Could someone volunteer? 15:00:47 Zakim, who is on the phone? 15:00:47 On the phone I see Curt_Tilmes, Luc_, TomDN, ??P8 15:00:57 Zakim: ??P8 is me 15:01:11 +[OpenLink] 15:01:12 Zakim, ??P8 is me 15:01:12 +stain; got it 15:01:15 SamCoppens has joined #prov 15:01:19 Zakim, [OpenLink] is temporarily me 15:01:19 +MacTed; got it 15:01:23 Zakim, mute me 15:01:23 MacTed should now be muted 15:01:33 Zakim, SamCoppens is with TomDN 15:01:33 +SamCoppens; got it 15:01:54 I can do it (I hope) 15:02:06 tlebo has joined #prov 15:02:07 + +1.720.708.aaaa 15:02:12 just type what people say, prefix with say Luc: 15:02:14 scribe: TomDN 15:02:20 and don't be afraid to ask when something is unclear :) 15:02:27 zednik has joined #prov 15:02:32 ok, got it :) 15:02:34 +tlebo 15:02:34 Luc_: just do like Stian says, type on the IRC 15:02:41 Zakim, who's here? 15:02:41 On the phone I see Curt_Tilmes, Luc_, TomDN, stain, MacTed (muted), +1.720.708.aaaa, tlebo 15:02:44 TomDN has TomDN, SamCoppens 15:02:44 On IRC I see zednik, tlebo, SamCoppens, TomDN, Curt, Zakim, RRSAgent, Luc_, MacTed, Luc, stain, trackbot, sandro 15:02:47 topic: admin 15:03:09 GK has joined #prov 15:03:27 +??P40 15:03:28 Luc: any other business? 15:03:31 jun has joined #prov 15:03:35 http://www.w3.org/2011/prov/meeting/2012-04-19 15:03:39 Oops, I'm late. Still emailing. Setting up now. 15:03:43 Proposed: to accept minutes of 2012-04-19 teleconference 15:03:49 +1 15:03:50 +1 15:03:57 +1 15:04:02 0 (not there) 15:04:07 khalidbelhajjame has joined #prov 15:04:08 +1 15:04:15 0(not there too) 15:04:22 dgarijo has joined #prov 15:04:23 +1 15:04:32 Resolved: to accept minutes of 2012-04-19 teleconference 15:04:33 (not there) 15:04:52 +??P14 15:04:54 Topic: open actions 15:05:14 +??P29 15:05:16 +??P43 15:05:41 Luc: are actions 73 and 74 complete? 15:05:43 zakim, ??P43 is me 15:05:48 +khalidbelhajjame; got it 15:05:57 Sorry to be late, +1 to the minutes of last week. 15:06:03 Zakim, ??P14 is me 15:06:03 +dgarijo; got it 15:06:07 http://www.w3.org/2011/prov/track/actions/73 15:06:07 http://www.w3.org/2011/prov/track/actions/73 15:06:10 http://www.w3.org/2011/prov/track/actions/74 15:06:13 - +1.720.708.aaaa 15:06:34 +??P3 15:06:50 JimMcCusker has joined #prov 15:06:53 yeah this are the actions I set a while ago I think. 15:06:58 Topic: PAQ 15:06:59 *these 15:07:17 +??P24 15:07:18 Luc: paul told me all reviews for PAQ were received 15:07:20 Jun - yours is about http://www.w3.org/2011/prov/track/issues/305 15:07:30 Luc: there are 2 options 15:07:32 @jun, I think that is closed. 15:07:35 q+ to comment that most outstanding comments have been addressed 15:07:54 ... release now, or make changes first and postpone release 15:07:55 ack GK 15:07:55 GK, you wanted to comment that most outstanding comments have been addressed 15:08:09 GK: been busy today going through comments 15:08:16 @jun, I closed your action. 15:08:21 ... most issues are resolved 15:08:32 ... 2 remaining 15:08:51 Luc: other reviewers on the call? 15:09:05 SamCoppens: early release is ok for me 15:09:38 Curt: satisfied with responses to his review 15:09:57 guidance to editors: address minor issues and aim at early release 15:10:09 Luc: Now we aim for early release, and address minor issues 15:10:10 topic: Dublin Core Best Practice 15:10:39 Luc: wanted to have an update on progress 15:11:28 @tlebo, thanks! I agree 15:11:36 dgarijo: discussed it with Kai. Some delay due to other priorities. Can continue now 15:11:50 stainPhone has joined #prov 15:11:52 Luc: Can timetable be suggested? 15:12:03 q? 15:12:12 dgarijo: Should be possible to make next week 15:12:15 topic: Release of Documents 15:13:00 +Sandro 15:13:10 Luc: Prov-DM Prov-N and Primer are in mercurial and ready to be handed over 15:13:14 (sorry I'm late; previous meeting ran late, debugging mercurial.) 15:13:33 ... Some final changes are made to CONSTRAINTS document, should be done by friday 15:13:54 ... All documents should be ready for webmaster by the end of the week. 15:14:08 ... some issues with PROV-O. 15:14:19 I did not fix the validation things that seemed to be fixed by Tim's automated-thingie-my-bob 15:14:24 s/fixed/caused/ 15:14:40 tlebo: Should be possible to get document ready by deadline on Monday 15:15:17 Luc: reviewers were happy with release as such. No blocking issues 15:15:44 tlebo: We are making the document ready validation-wise 15:15:55 Luc: if necessary, the webmaster can help with this as well 15:16:13 tlebo: will look into it this afternoon. 15:16:26 stainPhone has joined #prov 15:16:27 -stain 15:16:52 Luc: reason for synchronized release was to get external feedback. Would be good to identify the people we want to approach for this. 15:18:14 stainMobile has joined #prov 15:18:38 Hook Hua, NASA/JPL will be a good reviewer for the whole package 15:19:13 Luc: invites everyone to think about potential reviewers. 15:19:20 +??P10 15:19:39 ... not necessary for them to review all documents, some of them is also ok 15:19:44 +??P8 15:19:47 +q 15:20:08 ack kh 15:20:25 Luc: Anyone here who would like to write a blog about changes since last release? 15:20:32 Zakim, who's noisy? 15:20:43 MacTed, listening for 10 seconds I heard sound from the following: ??P8 (53%), khalidbelhajjame (95%) 15:20:58 stain2 has joined #prov 15:21:08 Zakim, mute ??p8 15:21:08 ??P8 should now be muted 15:21:11 sorry, I didnt get that answer due to noise 15:21:23 sorry, ??p8 ... the echo was just too much 15:21:33 SamCoppens has left #prov 15:21:35 kh: workshop is end of may, 28th of may 15:21:59 Zakim, who is on the call? 15:21:59 On the phone I see Curt_Tilmes, Luc_, TomDN, MacTed (muted), tlebo, ??P40, dgarijo, ??P29, khalidbelhajjame, ??P3, ??P24, Sandro, ??P10, ??P8 (muted) 15:22:01 TomDN has TomDN, SamCoppens 15:22:09 I can do a blog post 15:23:11 Jun: If necessary, I can write something about Prov-O 15:24:00 @stain2, that will be good to work together on the ontology post 15:24:08 stain2: can work together with Jun on this 15:24:26 q? 15:24:41 Luc: specifications will be out next thursday, so time for the blog should be shortly after that 15:24:45 topic: Definition of Alternate and Specialization 15:25:12 Luc: there were many discussions about alt/spec. 15:25:31 ... Solution should have support of the whole WG. 15:26:12 ... If no consensus can be had, we follow the agreed procedure, and drop them from specification, and add them as notes 15:26:33 http://www.w3.org/2011/prov/wiki/SpecializationAlternateDefinitions#Definitions_13_.28refinement_of_12.29 15:26:37 -??P10 15:26:47 ... TomDN, Jim, james and chairs discussed this via email/wiki 15:27:36 ... Definition 13 is something they are happy with, and ask for support from the group. Vote will be next week 15:27:45 stephenc has joined #prov 15:28:12 ... hopefully this will close the issue. If not, we will discuss more, but they will be dropped from the documents and added as notes. 15:28:33 JimMcCusker: We went through a number of iterations 15:28:47 ... trying to define clearly what an entity is 15:28:58 stain2 has joined #prov 15:29:03 stainMobile has joined #prov 15:29:12 ... we agreed that an entity is something we use to talk about things in a particular way. 15:29:13 +??P2 15:29:28 ... explains definitions. 15:29:39 Zakim, ??P2 is me 15:29:39 +stainMobile; got it 15:29:51 Zakim, ??P2 is stain 15:29:51 I already had ??P2 as stainMobile, stainMobile 15:30:02 ... We leave things open for alternates to be very distinct ways of looking at the same thing. 15:31:13 ... Special attention paid to lifetime of entities. 15:31:41 exists general => exists specialization? Other way round? 15:32:16 AHh.. I get it... 15:33:56 An entity is a physical, digital, conceptual, or other kind of thing with some fixed aspects. Entities may be real or imaginary. (same as above) 15:34:04 Two alternate entities present aspects of the same thing. These aspects may be the same or different, and the alternate entities may or may not overlap in time. (changed has to presents; rearranged & added time) 15:34:12 An entity that is a specialization of another entity shares all aspects of the latter, and additionally presents more specific aspects of the same thing as the latter. In particular, the lifetime of the specialized entity contains that of any specialization. (changed has to presents; rearranged & added time) 15:34:44 TomDN: Pros of the definitions are: they avoid discussion about reflexivity/transitivity like we had before. Also they require minimal changes to existing documents 15:34:56 Luc: They are a good compromise. 15:34:59 q? 15:35:07 +q 15:35:22 I wA 15:35:54 kh: main difference is in definition is in alternateOf. More specifically, the overlapping/non-overlapping intervals. 15:36:02 I like emphasis on "aspects". Key to understanding will be good examples... 15:36:14 ... Concerns that "aspects" will be confusing. 15:36:25 q? 15:36:28 ack kh 15:36:44 JimMcCusker: We settled on aspects because it's the most efficient way to talk about everything an entity can be 15:36:55 Wander slightly what is the meaning of alternate , first line says entity is a thing, second that entity a aspect 15:37:04 ... It's not an exclusive view, but also not a fixed set of attributes 15:38:01 ... the meaning is that of the natural language meaning of aspects. No special definition required. 15:38:21 q? 15:38:46 kh: Why was it necessary to relax the definition of alternate to non-overlapping intervals. 15:39:15 q? 15:39:19 Luc: this is to accomodate examples like the "customer in chair at 6pm or 7pm" one 15:39:45 Luc: Vote will be next week 15:39:52 topic: Collections 15:40:37 Luc: Update on current status: Collections are now called Dictionaries in the DM 15:40:51 @Luc, yes 15:41:06 ... Changes are made to prov-o document as well. 15:41:22 There might be a few Collections hanging about still :) 15:41:28 I need to drop off, thanks all! 15:41:29 Jim: Acknowledges that these changes are being made today 15:41:46 ( http://aquarius.tw.rpi.edu/prov-wg/prov-o#description-collections still needs to be updated to reflect the name change) 15:41:53 Luc: Do we want another, concrete kind of collection in the model? 15:41:55 s/Jim/Tim 15:42:08 q? 15:42:12 +q 15:42:18 -??P3 15:42:38 kh: One way to try to answer this is to look what kind of provenance is required. 15:42:48 ... do we need order, duplicates, ... ? 15:43:24 kh: Dictionary as it is now is very general. Can be mapped to most possible collections when required 15:43:41 ... So most cases will be covered already. 15:43:53 q+ to say that "Collections" have always been defined as "Dictionaries", so adding anything other than a Dictionary is feature creep. Leave Collections as the hallow superclass. 15:44:00 ack kha 15:44:07 ... As they are now, dictionaries are very expressive, which is great. 15:44:37 q- 15:44:57 tlebo: Collections actually always were Dictionaries, except for the name. 15:45:38 ... adding more features would be feature-kreeped 15:45:48 (spelling of that last one? ) 15:45:56 q? 15:46:05 (I'm staying silent for now, as my earlier email seems to have struck a nerve and I'm considering my response.) 15:46:06 Creep 15:46:17 Jun: agrees, adding more would make the model look more like a datastructure 15:46:41 s/kreeped/creep 15:47:04 GK: Still not completely convinced that we need Collections. Simpler is better. 15:47:05 q? 15:47:05 @gk, you mean Dictionaries? 15:47:33 @gk @luc thx 15:47:44 (I mean any kind of collection) 15:47:50 Proposed: not to specify any other form of collection in PROV 15:47:58 GK: Any kind of collection/dictionary 15:48:13 +1 15:48:16 yes 15:48:20 +1 15:48:22 +1 15:48:24 +1 15:48:26 +1 (except if we find a case that justifies coming up with another kind of collections) 15:48:29 +1 15:48:35 +0 15:48:38 +0 15:48:53 (abstain) 15:49:10 ACCEPTED: not to specify any other form of collection in PROV 15:49:24 (I'm fine with just dictionary, but I do think there is some merit for 'set'..) 15:49:36 q? 15:49:48 bye! 15:49:51 -khalidbelhajjame 15:49:52 -tlebo 15:49:53 -??P40 15:49:54 -Curt_Tilmes 15:49:55 Luc: If evidence should present itself to add more kind of collections, issue could be reopened. But for now, closed 15:49:56 -dgarijo 15:50:00 bye 15:50:01 -MacTed 15:50:03 -Sandro 15:50:04 Set is done easily with URI as keys 15:50:07 -??P24 15:50:09 -??P8 15:50:10 -stainMobile 15:50:13 bye 15:50:18 -TomDN 15:50:35 rrsagent, set log public 15:50:46 rrsagent, draft minutes 15:50:46 I have made the request to generate http://www.w3.org/2012/04/26-prov-minutes.html Luc_ 15:50:55 trackbot, end telcon 15:50:55 Zakim, list attendees 15:50:55 As of this point the attendees have been TomDN, Curt_Tilmes, Luc_, stain, MacTed, SamCoppens, +1.720.708.aaaa, tlebo, khalidbelhajjame, dgarijo, Sandro, stainMobile 15:51:03 RRSAgent, please draft minutes 15:51:03 I have made the request to generate http://www.w3.org/2012/04/26-prov-minutes.html trackbot 15:51:04 RRSAgent, bye 15:51:04 I see no action items 15:51:05 -Luc_