IRC log of webont on 2003-01-09

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DanC has changed the topic to: WebOnt: Manchester ftf
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Guus convenes the meeting, welcomes implementors
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DanC has changed the topic to: WebOnt: Manchester ftf http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/WebOnt/
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Ian: recall from ftf info page (@@link): dinner at 7p at the Yang Sing etc.
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See http://www.w3.org/2003/01/09-webont-irc#T09-06-43
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Attendance: Schreiber.
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-- Furguson, invited from Stanford, Protoge developer
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-- Connolly
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-- Barsia, UMD, invited
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-- Weilemaker (sp?), invited
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-- Hefflin
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-- Dean
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-- Stanton, DISA
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-- Buswell, Stilo
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-- De Roo, Afga
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-- Jeff Pan, u. Manchester
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-- Horrocks, Network Inference
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-- Patel-Schneider
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-- van Harmelen
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====== Announcement from Hendler
09:11:59 [DanC]
JH: owl.owl award goes to Frank van Harmelen for brokering the semantic truce.
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@@link to photo from Bijan
09:13:03 [DanC]
===== Working Draft review points, around the table
09:16:13 [DanC]
Hendler: editor: pls note new copyright statement at http://www.w3.org/Guide/pubrules#head updated for 2003 and INRIA->ERCIM transition
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s/editor/editors/
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09:16:55 [DanC]
Horrocks: Guide is in good shape. Semantics in good shape. Feature synopsis and reference need work; I'd like to see them combined.
09:17:48 [DanC]
[note guus is taking notes on flipcharts; we might want pictures of those@@]
09:19:10 [DanC]
Horrocks: in some cases, the description of the language features are better in the synopsis.
09:20:06 [DanC]
Horrocks: it's clear what the purpose of guide and semantics are; what exactly are the purposes of synopsis and ref?
09:20:14 [DanC]
PFPS: what Horrocks said, 2nded.
09:20:57 [DanC]
... I'm concerned about the amount of changes in the semantics doc in the last week or so. e.g. in response to comments from McBride
09:21:23 [DanC]
s/McBride/Beckett/
09:22:11 [DanC]
JJC: RDFCore intends to approve Last Call Candidates tomorrow...
09:22:32 [DanC]
... editor's drafts are in w3.org space; you could link there for a week and do a global search/replace later
09:22:42 [DanC]
PFPS: I also think Guide is in pretty good shape
09:23:15 [DanC]
van Harmelen: re purpose of Synopsis: I suggest it's an entry point, as a preface to more serious docs like Guide, semantics.
09:23:33 [DanC]
... I support the proposal from a recent telcon to make it non-normative.
09:23:36 [jhendler]
Dave Beckett's review of Semantics: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-webont-comments/2003Jan/0000.html
09:24:01 [DanC]
... I think it should be more explicit about the semantics of the sublanguages.
09:24:10 [jhendler]
Brian McBride's review of Ref: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-webont-comments/2003Jan/0001.html
09:24:59 [DanC]
VH: I think we should pay more attention to relationships between the documents. Another review is in order there... things like links between them, checking for redundancy and consistency.
09:25:51 [DanC]
Baget: re synopsis: the dialects (Full/DL/Lite) are not sufficiently motivated.
09:26:43 [DanC]
... the motivation that seems implicit is to make implementation easier. For that purpose, some features are like "macros"; identifying those vs. a kernel would help.
09:26:56 [DanC]
... not sure where to put that. maybe in the semantics doc.
09:28:20 [DanC]
ter Horst: re Reference: I'd like to see more examples. it's uneven. some important sections don't have examples.
09:28:29 [DanC]
[something about overlap that scribe didn't catch]
09:29:26 [DanC]
JJC: test document provides examples; does that help?
09:29:39 [DanC]
ter Horst: it serves a different function. it helps, but...
09:30:23 [DanC]
ter Horst: re Semantics: it has come far, but re the owl full/owl dl correspondence, there is an open point.
09:31:21 [DanC]
... and there are parts that are unreviewed. There's a new, very welcome, >3page [RDF-oriented description of DL?].
09:31:48 [DanC]
ter Horst: I 2nd VH's comments about cross-document review.
09:32:26 [DanC]
Horan: as a consumer, the purpose/audience isn't clear.
09:32:32 [DanC]
... esp. Guide
09:32:38 [DanC]
... implementors? adopters?
09:32:54 [DanC]
... lack of consistency on terms: individuals, instances, members, elements
09:33:20 [DanC]
... with a background in Object Oriented Programming, Class/Instance means something completely different
09:33:43 [DanC]
... whether Full/DL/Lite are different languages, dialects, vocabularies is incosnsistently documented
09:33:57 [DanC]
Horan: Guide is pretty good, except [missed it?]
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[something on ref?]
09:34:48 [jhendler]
Horan: on Guide - good but could use a better consistency w/others and who intended audience is
09:34:54 [DanC]
Horan: re Requirements: it seems some things haven't been met. [clarification about objectives vs. requirements]
09:35:30 [DanC]
Beckhofer: mostly read Guide; it looks good
09:35:54 [DanC]
Crowther: quite satisfied with Guide.
09:36:14 [DanC]
... supportive of combining features/ref
09:36:37 [DanC]
Crowther: what does it mean to be OWL compliant? is a one-line shell script that accepts everything OK?
09:37:18 [DanC]
[skipped somebody]
09:37:41 [DanC]
Hendler: I read all 6 documents one day; came away feeling much more positive than before I read them...
09:38:05 [DanC]
... read some other W3C specs... if we released them today, they'd be as good as some stuff that has been used a lot
09:38:47 [DanC]
Hendler: re ref/synopsis: given a lot of time, I think it might be good to combine them, but I'm not sure it's worth the time.
09:39:17 [DanC]
Hendler: re ref purpose: [2 conflicting statements of purpose] let's go with the 1st of those: an explanation if you know RDFS. not an exhaustive reference
09:40:29 [DanC]
... we worked with students on porting to owl, and we found ourselves using the ref doc a lot; it answered questions about which vocabulary terms can be used where better than other docs.
09:40:51 [DanC]
vanH: are you suggesting to make ref shorter?
09:41:19 [DanC]
Hendler: yes, shorter with more links. systematic short reference with pointers. [something else?]
09:41:57 [DanC]
Hendler: re Guide: it was mostly finished before OWL Full was decided on, so there isn't really a guide on OWL Full.
09:42:17 [DanC]
... it took us hours to discover that :subj :pred :aClass isn't in OWL DL.
09:43:01 [jjc]
ACTION: jjc - add suvj pred aClass test case in I5.3
09:43:17 [DanC]
Hendler: on features: I think it's close; as in email I sent, I suggest a section on OWL DL [and something about features of Full]
09:43:50 [DanC]
Hendler: re Semantics: glad we have new reviewers. Jeff Pan [sp?] reviewed Semantics. Bijan is reviewing it.
09:44:41 [DanC]
Mike: how much did the students use owl.owl? Hendler: not much; we didn't think to look there. more emphasis on the RDF schema for OWL seems in order.
09:45:37 [DanC]
Crowther: are we saying that Reference is misnamed? "Reference" suggests a longer document.
09:45:45 [DanC]
Hendler: yes, a different name seems in order.
09:46:24 [DanC]
Furguson: read mostly Synopsis and Guide: I only have detailed comments.
09:46:36 [DanC]
... synopsis easy to read. very nice.
09:46:56 [jjc]
DanC: comments
09:47:25 [jhendler]
DanC: most of my stuff on earlier drafts:
09:47:30 [jhendler]
DanC: semantics "done"
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DanC: Guide "done" (but needs some fixes for Full, can live w)
09:48:29 [jhendler]
DanC: Purpose of synop v. references - ref sets expectations it doesn't meet - what is shortest path to fix
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DanC: should figure out cheapest way to fix feature v. Ref
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DanC: Test - betw. Semantics/Guide - we may be in good shape - do NOT need a software spec -- we have met our charter and should not expand it.
09:50:09 [jhendler]
DanC: will take more time to do so than is cost effective
09:50:45 [DanC]
Parsia: docs aren't "gentle" to folks from an object oriented programming, or even from RDFS.
09:51:07 [DanC]
... folks taking RDFS schemas and moving to owl are going to have to do work that isn't sufficiently motivated.
09:51:37 [DanC]
... e.g. classes as instances
09:52:30 [DanC]
Jan W [surname spelling?]: been using RDF/S for a long time... read OWL docs recently.
09:52:53 [DanC]
... "what do I need to do to make an OWL system?". I guess the test cases doc will help.
09:53:22 [DanC]
[?]: issue isn't so much for implementor as systems integrator. [not sure I got that]
09:53:37 [DanC]
Jan W: better roadmap, pls.
09:54:02 [DanC]
Hefflin: Guide very good overall, still needs:
09:54:27 [DanC]
... how to use owl ontologies to describe data. example of separate ontology from instance document
09:54:50 [DanC]
Jan W == Jan Wielemaker
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[attendance + Chris Welty]
09:56:12 [DanC]
Hefflin: I think it would make sense to move versioning stuff from [where?] to [where?]
09:56:23 [DanC]
... take some stuff from requirements on versioning
09:56:49 [DanC]
Hefflin: I'd rather expand the reference than the guide; keep the guide short-ish.
09:57:24 [DanC]
[something about abstract syntax?]
09:57:28 [jhendler]
heflin: move versioning from up near top of doc (where it appears in wine.owl file) to further towards end "now that you know how to do ontology
09:57:58 [DanC]
Heflin: we need to me more clear about the difference between sameClassAs and sameAs, applied to classes.
09:58:38 [jjc]
ACTION: jjc - check sameInstanceAs/sameClassAs tests for FULL clarify different semantics
09:58:44 [DanC]
vanH acknowledges this as a problem in synopsis
09:59:20 [DanC]
DanC: our requirements doc is exemplary, both for audience for the WG, I think.
09:59:34 [DanC]
Dean: I read [all the owl and RDF?] docs on the plane.
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... (I sent mail about dataypes, btw...)
09:59:55 [DanC]
Dean: I sent mail about the latest version [pointer somebody, pls?]
10:00:30 [DanC]
Dean: I'd like to re-think the idea of putting the presentation syntaxes and MIME type stuff in the reference; they more than double the size of it.
10:00:53 [jhendler]
Mike D's email re: datatypes - http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-webont-wg/2003Jan/0156.html
10:01:02 [DanC]
Dean: McBride serves as "series editor" in RDFCore; let's consider doing that. JJC: that's a lot of work.
10:01:49 [DanC]
Dale: nothing to add.
10:02:28 [DanC]
Stanton: I think the Guide is a good rationale.
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Stanton: on conformance, I'm not clear... conformance to what? to W3C process? [not sure I got that point?]
10:03:41 [DanC]
... in my work, "degress" of interoperability don't help. One point of non-interoperability can costs zillions.
10:03:49 [DanC]
... I'd like to talk about a model implementation.
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... or reference implementation
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Stanton: I'd like to see an exclusion of additional features as [outside something?]
10:05:03 [DanC]
Buswell: most of it's been said... motivation for 3 species is lacking... should be in Guide.
10:05:17 [DanC]
... Guide also needs more about imports, and the interaction with dialects.
10:05:50 [DanC]
Buswell: re ref: with programmer's hat on, "Reference" suggests a formal and complete specification. If that's not what it is, rename it.
10:06:25 [DanC]
Buswell: tool vendors will want to say their tool is "owl compliant". the MathML spec has one, for example.
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(has a software compliance section)
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JJC: in sum, they're not ready.
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JJC: there's a lot of churn, and there are some outstanding technical issues... e.g. syntax about OWL DL/Lite.
10:08:12 [DanC]
... specs say OWL DL (and hence OWL Lite) is the range of the mapping rules, but WG discussion suggests otherwise.
10:09:11 [DanC]
JJC: a section of the Guide could discuss "what you need to do to an RDF document to make it an OWL data document". It's not nothing.
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[scribe: OWL DL data document, I think he means]
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JJC: [bug in abstract syntax or something? missed it?]
10:10:37 [DanC]
JJC: semantics have a "list of values" in the abstract syntax... it's a real pain to write in RDF. we need at least one example somewhere of how to write it, if we're serious about the language being that way.
10:11:23 [DanC]
JJC: another technical issue: imports and levels: if you import an OWL Lite doc into into [something?], is the result [something?]
10:11:45 [mdean]
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-webont-wg/2003Jan/0071.html contains F2F 5 version and lists outstanding issues and comments
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... F2F 5 version of OWL Reference
10:12:34 [DanC]
JJC: re process: I'm not prepared to vote on [decide] last call until we have 2 weeks to review stable documents...
10:13:10 [DanC]
... the mapping rules have changed, for good reason, about every day for the last weeks. We [I] can't begin to review until those mapping rules stabilize.
10:13:34 [DanC]
Hendler: that two weeks doesn't make sense without committed reviewers, yes? JJC: yes.
10:14:06 [DanC]
JJC: conformance is an unresolved issue. Fairly crucial, I think.
10:14:37 [DanC]
JJC: I sent detailed review comments; I stand by those; I'm not sure how they've been disposed of...
10:15:23 [DanC]
[specific comment on semantics; PFPS says "fixed"]
10:16:37 [DanC]
JJC: re comments from McBride and Beckett: what I take away is that the overall level of polish isn't there. e.g. hyperlinking; for each term, it should have exactly one home, with other docs pointing there.
10:17:07 [DanC]
... Guide's level of editorial polish is quite good, as an exception.
10:18:02 [DanC]
JJC: re annotations on classes. In the abstract syntax, they are allowed, but with some odd-looking restrictions.
10:19:01 [DanC]
JJC: re features: if it makes it look easy to go from RDF to OWL [DL], it's wrong/misleading.
10:19:19 [DanC]
JJC: I made a comment on the list of editors for reference... not sure what the status of that is...
10:20:28 [DanC]
JJC: re status of features/reference: recently we talked about features being informative and reference being normative... discussion here suggests reference should be informative. re path of least action: it's to drop them.
10:20:35 [DanC]
JJC: let's drop them both.
10:21:08 [DanC]
JJC: if we keep reference, [good comment; pls key it in jeremy?]
10:21:27 [DanC]
De Roo: I very much enjoyed reading the Guide.
10:21:51 [DanC]
De Roo: re reference: minor point: owl:item [isn't there? shouldn't be there?]
10:22:35 [DanC]
... owl:incompatibleWith is in the reference; not sure what it means [?]
10:22:52 [DanC]
Guus: AllDifferent is later in the agenda...
10:23:05 [DanC]
De Roo: I think owl:DataType isn't needed; rdfs:Datatype is enough
10:23:39 [DanC]
De Roo: owl:Class, owl:Set ... merits discussion.
10:24:26 [DanC]
De Roo: in owl Full, we don't need [some condition about owl:Class and rdfs:Class ?]
10:25:00 [DanC]
De Roo: re presentation syntax, let's keep in mind that they're non-normative. Document it better, if it's not clear.
10:25:15 [DanC]
De Roo: re conformance: I 2nd Dan's point: too early to document conformance [of software?]
10:25:28 [DanC]
attendance + Ziv Hellman (sp?) from Unicorn Solutions
10:25:38 [jhendler]
de roo: we need if, not iff, for relation betw owl:class and rdfs:class
10:25:49 [DanC]
Hellman: I like Guide very much...
10:26:21 [jhendler]
attendance + Chris Welty
10:26:32 [DanC]
Hellman: more UML diagrams [or did he mean mappings?] please. for Full, Lite, everything, please.
10:27:11 [DanC]
Welty: 2nd point by JJC re syntax... difficult to tell where to go to figure out syntax...
10:27:32 [DanC]
... figuring out which document to go for what has been a challenge, in developing the Guide.
10:27:57 [DanC]
Welty: I'm nervous about the wine ontology; needs review from [folks that know what our syntax is?]
10:28:26 [DanC]
Dean: does latest version separate instances out? Welty: not sure.
10:29:08 [DanC]
Welty: I think we haven't... I think it's not hard... JJC: it is hard!
10:29:51 [jhendler]
Frank - Dan, based on history, what do you think?
10:30:12 [jhendler]
Dan - this WG is more critical of their documents than the web community is!
10:30:49 [jhendler]
dan - I will argue we are done.
10:31:14 [DanC]
Pan: I reviewed Semantics in detail...
10:31:23 [DanC]
... I made detailed comments on section [5.2?].
10:31:34 [DanC]
Hendler: is it pretty much ready? Pan: yes.
10:32:01 [DanC]
..........
10:32:32 [DanC]
Guus: after the coffee break, I'll spend 10 minutes summarizing general issues before we break.
10:32:55 [DanC]
Guus: the test document has a separate plenary discussion.
10:33:44 [DanC]
Welty to scribe next session.
10:51:26 [RRSAgent]
See http://www.w3.org/2003/01/09-webont-irc#T10-33-44
10:52:53 [ChrisW]
ready to scribe second session
10:53:45 [ChrisW]
Guus and Jim want to propose a breakout session of four doc editors (not Test) during the implementation session this afternoon
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think about a strategy for solving the term consistency problem
10:54:30 [ChrisW]
Mike wants to attend the implementation session
10:55:59 [ChrisW]
Jim suggests Mike send a replacement to the editors meeting and release "write lock" on reference
10:56:19 [ChrisW]
Jim and Guus feel it is important for editors to meet in a subgroup to address the general issues
10:57:06 [ChrisW]
Guus goes over general points -
10:57:26 [ChrisW]
combine FS & REF (shoudl be a WG discussion)
10:57:48 [ChrisW]
FvH wants to discuss this issue now before further work on them
10:58:28 [ChrisW]
Discussion of issue (whether to combine FS & REF docs)
10:58:43 [ChrisW]
FvH felt FS is the "entry point" document for OWL
10:59:11 [ChrisW]
Need to discuss what the perceived role of REF is
10:59:30 [ChrisW]
Jim agrees - need to decide what REF is supposed to be
11:00:23 [ChrisW]
MikeD - view of FS as the main document to describe the additional layers
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but suggests we do it in small group, and then come back and discuss in more detail
11:01:39 [ChrisW]
MikeD - the REF document is a traditional reference with index of "capabilities" and descriptions of them. Feels two documents are needed
11:02:13 [ChrisW]
Herman - Is it a syntax reference?
11:03:39 [ChrisW]
MikeD - Yes for the exchange syntax - but owl.owl is the real one
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Jeremy discusses what he thinks "syntax" really means
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- a set of RDF triples with constraints that come from the syntax and the language levels
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- mappings are only discussed in AS&S, and that is the only syntax
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Jim - the AS&S is the only normative document on the language
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- other documents should present this in more human-readable form
11:06:51 [ChrisW]
jjc - ok, the other documents are informal. How many informal documents do we need?
11:07:21 [ChrisW]
Jim - doesn't bother me, as long as they are consistent (which isn't the case now), as long as
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- their purpose is clearly stated
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jjc - given that a lot of people want to finish, isn't it less work to just drop reference? Doc doens't seem to serve a purpose
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JIm - FS (short synopsis, entry point document) is important to get OWL through the process
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DanC - if REF was focused on media type registration and owl.owl, it would seem better to me
11:14:49 [ChrisW]
Guus - proposes that FS document (perhaps merged with REF) must stay
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- not a formal proposal, no one seemed opposed, jjc and MikeD said they would have abstained
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straw poll - 5 abstains, no opposed
11:17:54 [ChrisW]
Guus observes that there seem to be three proposals regarding REF:
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- drop it
11:18:09 [ChrisW]
- make it correspond to media types and owl.owl
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- make a new doc on media types
11:19:59 [ChrisW]
5 vote for "fixed editors view"
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8 vote for new documents
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3 for dropping it
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6 for dropping document but moving useful material to other docs
11:21:38 [DanC]
Guus: summry: straw poll largely inconclusive.
11:21:41 [ChrisW]
informal vote just used as input to the editors breakout group
11:22:46 [ChrisW]
guus describes breakout sessions: FS, REF, GUIDE, SEM groups
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make list of things to change
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plan how to change them
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even do the work in the session
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Jim suggests also an intended audience description for each doc
11:23:54 [ChrisW]
Guus - consistency issues should be discussed in the editors breakout
11:24:00 [jhendler]
Jim "suggests" = jim states as chair
11:24:15 [ChrisW]
FvH - what about differences with DAML+OIL
11:24:23 [ChrisW]
-should go in REF
11:24:43 [ChrisW]
Each breakout shoudl have a scribe
11:24:54 [DanC]
pls mail break-out records to connolly,guus,jimh,www-archive@w3.org
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11:31:40 [ChrisW]
s.buswell scribing Guide breakout group
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present - welty, dale, horan, schreiber, hefflin
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changes to intro definition of ontology
11:37:29 [ChrisW]
GS has created an example with OWL-full
11:38:44 [ChrisW]
bh - questions use of para on 'availability of tools' ?
11:39:44 [ChrisW]
cw - use is generic tools understanding OWL, do not need specific app.
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also reduces level of business logic in app
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berkowitz also in breakout group
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cw - guide is aimed at owl ontology editors, not tool implementers
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sb - disagrees
11:48:21 [ChrisW]
jb - supports cw, but need OWL-DL supports ...
11:49:16 [ChrisW]
gs - tried 2 examples, need things not in OWL-Lite
11:49:56 [ChrisW]
gs - ok as guide is based around OWL-DL
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bh - waht is 'complete OWL vocabulary' ?
11:52:25 [ChrisW]
gs/cw - means language constructs
11:52:37 [ChrisW]
also say that OWL lite does not have all
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gs - link to feature synopsis
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reword 'type separation' tet
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bh - ?reasoning support 'predictable' - about existence of tools or results ?
11:56:43 [ChrisW]
cw - both readings intended
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structure - wine.owl is OWD-DL ontology with marked exceptions
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gs - link here to semantics doc
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ontology headers - states that doc is intended to be an ontology
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cw - analogy is HEAD tag in HTML: ignore tagname
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jf - can used rdf:description for this
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jh - ontology 'means' reusable vocab
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jh - product catalog is not ontology
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gs - cannot make distinction
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jh - would like to make distinction
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bh - may want to subclass instance in someone else's ontlogy
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gs - ?maybe rename tag
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cw - imports has been updated
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jh - move versioning into separate section: most users will not need this in header section
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cw - but is part of ontology element
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cw - put forward ref to new section
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defining data - ref ontology from instance file ?
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jh - ?need separate file of instances re-using wine.owl ontology ?
12:26:35 [ChrisW]
how does one convert an RDF doc into an OWL doc ?
12:26:54 [ChrisW]
need someone who knows to write this section
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cw - we need an example
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bh - ?identify target readers?
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cw - OWL users defining ontologies (not tool developers)
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============ plenary reporting session from the different breakout sessions
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1. Semantics
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[@@ pointer to PFPS's summary]
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jeremy: my email with comments on annotations
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jeremy: points out to explain/be aware of the consequence of syntactic constaints holding for LITE/DL graphs
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see very last paragraph in 4.1 of seamantics
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13:43:49 [DanC]
ACTION Welty: explain that "in OWL Lite, all names need types" in the guide
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.... and and in OWL DL.
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Peter closes his discussion: do the right thing
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2. Guide
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[@@ pointers to ChrisW's summary]
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found it: http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/WebOnt/guide-src/wine.owl
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under 1.2. Structure of the Document
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Guus: rdf->owl full is straight ahead
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13:54:46 [heflin]
Chris, what were you asking me?
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ACTION: Jeremy writes a section about the constraints to go from RDF to OWL-DL/LITE
13:56:07 [ChrisW]
You had said in the group you might be able to take that action (That jeremy took)
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3. FS
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rename to Overview??!!!
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[@@ pointer to FrankVH summary]
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FVH's FS summary http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-archive/2003Jan/0021.html
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jeremy: it sound good
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frank: good to hear
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\me wonders what DanC found
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mikeD: is it the entry point?
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frank:yes
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4. Reference
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JimH presents summary http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-archive/2003Jan/0022.html
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Jeremy: section 2 rather as an appendix
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JimH: things that are currently hooked into other documents
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Guus: main part is language structure and if you shorten that... more convinced about FS
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IanH: a quick reference would be a good thing to hava
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Jeremy: repeats his concern about timing specifically w.r.t. Reference
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JimH: pipeline (document) structure versus portal/dispatch structure and feels we are more going to the latter
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[Guus took a picture fron FimH drawing]
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JohnS: the "kapstan" document
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capstone
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Guus: straw poll "option of quick reference: do we need such a document"
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CrisW: could be achieved as an index document fron reference
14:32:34 [JosD]
DanC: better if all documents are uniform
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better if *each* document is uniform
14:36:48 [JosD]
Guus: feeling confident to decide tomorrow
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============ coffee break
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Afternoon session - implmentors
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Ray Ferguson - Protege
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Presentation to be available at www-archive
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RayF: when rule systems can't handle feature X, we advise our users to just don't use feature X; we get by that way.
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Some systems have 100,000 classes with 50,000 instances
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PSM = Problem Solving Methods
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i.e. generic ways to solve problems, e.g. classification
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Protege - impl OWL Lite is hard,
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so we will probably implement a subset of OWL Full that is not OWL Lite or OWL DL
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Protege and RDF history - we worked on an RDF backend
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We released it in alpha
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it didn't work
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so we got the reputation in the RDF world that Protege did not work for RDF
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eventually we got a system that worked with RDF, but people no longer believed in us.
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15:02:05 [DanC]
hmm... I wonder why "you don't want to use an RDF parser for OWL". We use RDF triple-stores for OWL all the time.
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differentFrom problem N^2 problem.
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OWL DL and OWL Lite have restrictions ...
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range constraints ...
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modellers want range constraints with two classes with disjunctive semantics
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ACTION: IanH explain how to say "range of P is A union B" in owl lite
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Metaclasses are used by more than 50% of users
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protege supports any integer for cardinalities ...
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protege uses closed world assumption, but only partially enforced
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End first presentation
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Second presentation
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Bijan from Mindswap
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quit
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use multiple ontologies and pieces of ontologies
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15:18:26 [RRSAgent]
See http://www.w3.org/2003/01/09-webont-irc#T15-17-32
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bh is Bernard
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demo
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parser tries to do the best it can with broken material
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reasoner is not sophisticated
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follows superclass links
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validating markup, not sophisticated reasoning
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some tools provide crawling, and text searches of ontology
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xsd support
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end demo - back to slides (SMore)
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(demo was RIC)
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SMore creates RDF instance data with explicit knowledge derived by reasoning
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End presentation
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Next presentation
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Network Inference - Sean B.
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Grumb les + Issues
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freames and roundtripping
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compliance is very important
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datatypes ignored
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reasoning is classification and satisfiability
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Peter Crowther continues ...
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On real systems Query writers are not the ontology designers
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contrast this with research situatuon where it is the same person
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---- break
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next presentation
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Jan from SWI Prolog
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Demo MIA tool
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annotate photos and pictures
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use various DB with info about terms from art world, and wordnet
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tool does some inheritance based reasoning
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both class and proeprty hierarchies shown from AAT and WOrdnet
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translated into RDF
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ontology browser
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can view class as class or class as instance
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browser not editor
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end demo - start slides
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currently based on RDFS if we move to OWL it will be OWL full
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because we don't need the formal reasoning and we need metaclasses
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no standards for translating ontology into RDFS
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we did a home-brew
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wordnet:hyponymOf rdfs:subpropertyOf rdfs:subClassOf .
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allows reinterpreting of whole database
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16:20:02 [JosD]
yes
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end presentation
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start presentation - Raphael
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end presentation - see slides on archive
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start presentation - Jeff Heflin
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demo of D+O query tool
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takes in ontologies and instance data
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shows hierarchies of ontologies
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filtues ontologies
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filtures ontologies
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MS Access underlying this,
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does not have enough power,
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use FACT at load tiome to compute subsumption hierarchy
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database is pretty fast approach
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end presentation
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start presentation - Jos De Roo
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live session showing passing of RDF entailement tests and many of the OWL tests.
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proof is output ...
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jos complains is test haven't finished during his short presentation!
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concluding slides ...
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shows medical application to do with leg length
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proof finished end of presentation
16:54:21 [DanC]
very nifty stuff, that Euler.
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next presentation - Mike Dean
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OWL Validator - update on DAML validator
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anlagous to lint for C
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RDF parser not quite up to date (no datatype support, Jena 1.6.0)
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The validator "validates" against owl.owl
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DAML programme is migrating to OWL ....
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Jeremy - Jena update
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jjc: jena 1 stream is complete
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Jeremy - Jena 1 reahing end of its life
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Jeremy - Jena going to
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next - RDF support with new specs
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... support for RDF w/new specs
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Jena 2 CVS available
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i.e. pre-alpha
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RDF 2003 compliant parser
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N3 output
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Daml support not yet migrated
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expect to migrate DAML stuff, put OWL stuff "on top of it"
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reasoning - will use other peoples reasoners
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not clear what reasoning J2 will support - ideal is for Jena to use other people's reasoners with an API/connection to other Jena components
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J2 will do better support for ontology stuff going to DB
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pressure on us to move to OWL
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pressure on us to become RDF Core reference architecture
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datatype support in their now - Jos - but not complere - Jeremy - coming along
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working out our "where to go next" in next couple of weeks
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Plan release of parser very soon, and release of rest of stuff (pre-alpha) not too long from now
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hope to have RDF 2003 w/in time of RDF 2003 move from LC to CR/PR
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connolly shows some demos from SWAP
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connolly tries to show some demos from SWAP - "I am losing hopelessly"
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eventual usccess - showing png giving flight plan
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what's the email address to send scribe notes?
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www-archive@w3.org
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connolly also shows an OTTER proof of the statecode test
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(see www-archive for Jan 2003)
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end presentation
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Chris Welty reports back from break out group
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discussion of normative status of TEST - current status OK
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discussion of owl.owl
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current status not OK - technical problems with comments, - true in all interpreations?
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close for day.