Semantic Web Tools and Technologies for supporting W3C
Technical Plenary and WG Meeting Event
Cannes Mandelieu France, 25 February - 1 March 2002
Slides available at:
http://www.w3.org/Talks/2002/02/27-tpsw/
Overview
- The W3C Machine
- What we want
- Where's the truth?
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Demos
- Pubrules & TR Documents
- Information Syndication
- W3C At A Glance
- Jema
- Zakim
- Questions & Answers
The W3C Machine
-
Working Groups
- Working Group membership records (DBWG)
- F2F meeting registration system
- Teleconference calendar, Zakim IRC bot
- TR publication
-
Advisory Committee
- Reviews
- Effort tables
- Newsletter
- Roadmap
- other: mailing list subscriptions, ACLs, privacy
policies, photo metadata...
The Machine and the World
Things in the World
| Systems |
Docs |
Groups/ Activities |
People |
Organizations |
Events |
Mailboxes |
Tel |
| DBWG |
|
X |
X |
X |
|
X |
X |
| Meeting registration |
|
? |
X |
|
X |
X |
X |
| Telcon schedule |
|
X |
|
|
X |
|
X |
| Zakim |
|
|
X |
|
X |
|
X |
| TR pub |
X |
X |
X |
|
|
X |
|
| Effort Tables |
|
X |
X |
|
|
|
|
| WG list |
|
X |
X |
|
|
X |
|
| Events Cal |
|
X |
|
|
X |
|
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| ACLs |
X |
X |
X |
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|
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| Photo |
X |
? |
? |
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? |
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More: Airports, places, events, photos, IRC channels,
meeting records...
What We Want
Why can't the machine...
- Tell me (AC rep) the status of all the documents in all
the working groups my organization participates in?
- Tell me (chair, member) when a meeting is on a WG home
page but missing from the events calendar? fix it?
- Notify me (chair) when an organization that is
participating in a working group is no longer a member.
- Show me (anyone) the news about just the activities that
interest me?
- Tell me (managment) what last call reviews are
outstanding?
- Notify me (chairs, management) of schedule slips that put
my work at risk?
One big SQL Database?
- "A single MIS system in place would have solved all of
these issues".
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All 30+ W3C WGs shall use the following forms...
- Really? hmm... we use email to raise issues
- Really? 27 form round-trips to record the meeting
minutes?
- Striking a balance between efficency, flexibility and
structure
- Goal of making it cost-effective for people to record
their knowledge for machine consumption.
Where's the truth?
- In the database?
- In the HTML page?
- In the email archives?
- Sometimes: one source, multiple views
- Sometimes: multiple sources, check consistency
Demos
- Pubrules & TR Documents
- Information Syndication
- W3C At A Glance
- Jema
- Zakim
Demo: Pubrules, TR Documents and Internal Drafts
"Pubrules" are the checklist used by the W3C Webmaster for
maintaining the W3C Technical
Reports index.
- title
- maturity level, i.e. one of WD|CR|PR|REC|Note
- date, i.e. title page date
- author/editors
- shortname
- identifier of previous version, if any
An online
service for helping working group members is now
availiable.
List of
internal WG drafts
Demo: Information Syndication
Demo: W3C At A Glance
- W3C is a dynamic organization
- Many groups tracking current events
- Aggregating this information
- Something that is greater than the sum of the individual
parts
- Organize this information by merging organizational
information
Proof
of concept prototype is availiable. (local cache: home page, member page, domain page)
Demo: Jema
Demo: Zakim
Questions & Answers