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Susie: welcome to everyone; this is an
excellent time for w3c to start a sweo group
... we can really accelerate the adoption of sw
... an introduction should be done, who is what, what is the role, what is
the work you are doing, etc?
... but it would be good to have such intro by email, too, for the records
I start: susie stephens, oracle, my role is to enhance oracle's insfrastucture for life sciences, I began to focus on SW around that topic
<LeeF> ivan: I'm Ivan Herman, the w3c semantic web activity lead
<LeeF> ...also act as a staff contact for SWEO IG
<LeeF> ... before this position, I was the head of offices for the W3C and as part of that I travelled a lot and gave tutorials and presentations on the semantic web
Lee: I work at IBM advanced tech group; our
group's r&d involves using sw techs to entreprise problems
... our plan is to put lot of our work into open source, and sweo work is in
line to raise awareness
... i am also member of w3c dawg group (sparql)
charles: i am product and services director at
garlik, UK
... we will launch a new product in the next few weeks which will use sw
charles: garlic's product goal is to help
people maintaining privacy online
... we have built an rdf framework in the w3c format, we have the largest
commercial rdf store today (we believe)
Wing: i work at the ibm tech group, close with
Lee
... working on text search in sw data
Pasquale: i am a web accessibility specialist,
and also a sw researcher, I have created and maintain an italian portal on
semweb
... it has italian translation of sw documents, also dublic core
... semantic web more accessible, and accessible web more semantics...
helen: representative of Agfa at the hcls group; we are interested in the health care domain, we work using sw engineering our work flow in health care
Jeff (intro): at oracle middleware; prior to oracle I was at cerebra (vice president), that had an OWL reasoning engine
scribe: before that I was at ??? developing
ontologies and systems
... i was at various outreach positinos for a number of years, am happy to to
be here
Frank (intro): I am from Chevron, i am new to the company, am at the entreprise arch. group, and working on information architectures.
scribe: before I was in safeway doing inf.
archs. developing ontologies and taxonomies,
... i am interested in working and developing proposal at chevron working in
this area
steve: steve harris, formally in university of southampton, but now at garlik, developed a rdf store
susie: it is good to have this introduction,
but we should also do that on email for people who come later
... upcoming information on the f2f meeting
... as far as sweo goes, the ig has the focus on the generation of
colleterals and other materials, to enable people within the business to
understand the sw
... we look at generation of higher level documents, focus on different
industries, on specific areas (eg, entreprise search)
... sweo is an ig and not a wg, we have more flexibility in deciding what we
achieve, and decided by the participants
... we can form it so that it meshes nicely with the participants'
interest
... it is a bit starting late, but it is all right
<LeeF> ivan: magazines and other materials are currently full of wrong information about the semantic web
<LeeF> ... feelings are that the SW is way too complicated, complex, scientific
<LeeF> ... we should keep that in mind in our work
<LeeF> ... when we talk to various companies, they would like to see real business cases/applications -- not only demos
<LeeF> ... keep in mind what sort of things your companies' might allow you to publish about SW business cases
susie: the f2f meeting itself:
... most of you are aware that the form and the agenda are on the web
<scribe> agenda: -> http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/sweo/public/2006/F2FAgenda_Nov2006.html
form-> http://www.w3.org/2002/09/wbs/38539/sweof2fburl/
(susie going through the agenda items)
susie: (continuing the presentation of the agenda)
Frank: on the second day, there is three task forces identified, is there any specific task force that we would have
susie: we have not defined those in advance of
the meeting, that would be dependent of the participants' interest
... and the task prioritization would also define those
Lee: i want just check, sweo membership is growing
susie: yes, correct, the simplest is for a
member
... then it is simple and done
... if the person is not part of a w3c member, then we can try to recruit the
company
... or invited expert, but at the moment we want to minimize the latter
... if we feel that we really have to reinforce an area, then we can do
that
... there are about 10 other organization that are in the process, like Agfa,
to join
... then we are done for today, we have the mailing list set up, I will send
out my intro mail, please follow
... please use that, too
-- adjourned