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This page documents the RDF Interest Group, 26-27 February 2001, which formed part of the Technical Plenary and WG Meeting Event (Royal Sonesta Hotel, Cambridge, Massachusetts USA). IG members also attended the all-groups plenary on Wednesday 28th February. (announcement and further info).
As of $Id: Overview.html,v 1.44 2001/04/09 17:32:07 danbri Exp $ this document provides the following information about the meeting agenda and outcomes...
The goal of this RDF Interest Group meeting is to explore the role of the Interest Group within the new Semantic Web Activity, and particular establish mechanisms that connect ongoing developer experience with RDF back into the RDF standardisation process. This includes themes such as...
0900-0915 Welcome
0915-1030 Introductions and (up to 5?)-minutes each round the
table on goals for RDF and this meeting.
(?shorten to 1hr?)
1030-1045 Break
1045-1145 New Semantic Web Activity,
introducing Eric Miller (SW Activity lead)
o Overview
o RDF Core Working Group (Brian McBride, Dan Brickley)
o Discussion
1145-1230 Overview of DAML (Mike Dean)
1230-1400 Lunch
1400-1500 RDF and other XML specifications (Jonathon Borden short talk)
Discussion of RDF in context of...
o XLink
o XPointer
o XML Schema datatypes (and DAML concrete types?)
o P3P and (Appel Rule language)
o CC/PP
o ...
1500-1530 Break
1530-1730 Developer Show and Tell
(10-20 presentations about works-in-progress, including:)
o CWM / SWAP
o Jena
o Redland
o Squish
o RuleML (Harold Boley)
o Annotea (Eric P)
o ...
Interest Table ideas & organizers:
Summary: lots of blue-sky enthusiasm, no killer app was uncovered. Calendaring was discussed.
Summary: started to draft a table of capabilities, got into a discussion of reification.
Summary: several APIs have been written. Factoring triples, model, serializing issues can lead to a clean implementation. Discussed analogies with XML APIs, especially SAX and DOM. APIs don't yet treat transactional semantics, schema constraint violation. Sense is that the action is no longer in building custom APIs. Bias toward simple APIs vs. assuming environments that support multithreading.
DanC: suggest regular IG "meetings" via irc
Task subgroup on converging data storage and APIs.
?Sublists for API, storage, abstract syntax
DanBri: when last polled, folk didn't want to subscribe to more lists.
Note: Registration closed 15 February 2001. Contact the IG chair by Feb 23 if you'd like to attend at short notice (or attend as an observer).
The following names were retrieved from the W3C meeting registration system...
(ie. these weren't in the registration system last I looked)
Mike Dean (mdean@bbn.com, BBN/DAML) will be attending, and has offered to provide an overview of the DAML work.
Benjamin Grosof (bgrosof@mit.edu, MIT) will also be attending, particularly with an interest in the representation of rules (P3P, DAML, Semantic Web...).
Michaek Biezunski (Infoloom) and Steve Newcomb (Coolheads Consulting), from the XML Topic Maps community will be attending.
Others (a mix of late applicants and confusion caused by the meeting registration system) who are expected at the meeting:
Note: late applicants: If your name didn't go into the system before registration closed, please make yourself a name badge from the blanks that'll be available at the main desk.
The main expected reading for this meeting are the standing "main texts" for RDF developers (the 2 specs plus issue list) alongside the new Semantic Web Activity materials...
See also:
We have been assigned the 'Somerset room'; there will be directions to the room available within the Royal Sonesta Hotel. We have one networked PC for presentations, plus several power-strips for personal laptops.
The meeting is hosted by the W3C at the Royal Sonesta Hotel in Cambridge, MA. Refer to the main event page for more information about rates, location, and transportation details.
Continental breakfast, lunch, and afternoon refreshments will be provided all five days. On monday/tuesday the Buffet Lunch is available 12:00-2:00 pm.
Semantic Web Accessibility? The WAI Evaluation and Repair interest group meeting is happening nearby. The WAI ER group have recently begun detailed work on Evaluation and Repair Language (EARL), an RDF application (using N3 syntax). RDF IG observers are invited to their EARL discussions thursday morning (esp. between 9am and 10:30am). On friday 10:45-3:00 detailed breakout groups will look at EARL technicalities.
Links to presentation materials, minutes etc belong here. As of $Id: Overview.html,v 1.44 2001/04/09 17:32:07 danbri Exp $ the RDF IG meeting is inadequately documented.
Related resources (including links gathered from Aaron Swartz's informal notes from the meeting):