IRC log of rdfa on 2008-08-21

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14:48:28 [RalphS]
Meeting: RDF-in-XHTML Task Force
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-> previous 2008-08-14 http://www.w3.org/2008/08/14-rdfa-minutes.html
14:49:00 [RalphS]
rrsagent, please make record public
14:49:09 [msporny]
zakim, who is on the call?
14:49:09 [Zakim]
SW_SWD(RDFa)11:00AM has not yet started, msporny
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On IRC I see msporny, RRSAgent, Steven, Zakim, RalphS
14:49:17 [RalphS]
Agenda: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-rdf-in-xhtml-tf/2008Aug/0092.html
14:49:32 [RalphS]
regrets: Ben, Mark, Michael
14:49:36 [msporny]
:)
14:50:22 [msporny]
We can do a quick call if there is not enough critical mass - I'm curious as to what happens next in the PR process and when the W3C will publish the /final/ RDFa Syntax document.
14:50:46 [RalphS]
fine with me
14:51:52 [RalphS]
[closing issue-125; commenter's response is in http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-rdf-in-xhtml-tf/2008Aug/0094.html ]
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scribe: ralph
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chair: Manu
14:56:51 [msporny]
heh :)
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+Ralph
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+??P27
14:59:23 [msporny]
zakim, I am ??P27
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+msporny; got it
15:00:12 [Steven]
zakim, dial steven-617
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ok, Steven; the call is being made
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+Steven
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+McCarron
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zakim, drop steven
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Steven is being disconnected
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-Steven
15:00:54 [ShaneM]
zakim, McCarron is ShaneM
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+ShaneM; got it
15:01:13 [Steven]
zakim, dial steven-617
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ok, Steven; the call is being made
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+Steven
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+??P35
15:02:52 [RalphS]
zakim, ??p35 is Jeremy
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+Jeremy; got it
15:03:08 [RalphS]
Topic: Action Review
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ACTION: Ben and Manu to test implementations on step 9 (no child nodes with @property) [recorded in http://www.w3.org/2008/08/14-rdfa-minutes.html#action23]
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Manu: testing that plain literal empty string is generated when there are no child nodes
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... Ben and Shane's implementation worked, mine was buggy
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-- done
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ACTION: Manu write a pending test case for literal property and no child nodes
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ACTION: Ralph prepare to summarize new W3C test suite license on 28 Aug
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[PENDING] ACTION: Michael to update Test Suite Manifest to correct tests 52 and 53 descriptions. [recorded in http://www.w3.org/2008/08/14-rdfa-minutes.html#action02]
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[DONE] ACTION: Ralph to send note to Alan regarding ISSUE-122 resolution [recorded in http://www.w3.org/2008/08/14-rdfa-minutes.html#action24]
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-> http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-rdf-in-xhtml-tf/2008Aug/0092.html response to Alan
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[DONE] ACTION: Shane to respond to ISSUE-125 on mailing list [recorded in http://www.w3.org/2008/08/14-rdfa-minutes.html#action25]
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-> @@ response
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[DONE] ACTION: Ben to contact Ed and Diego about new editors drafts coming down the pipe. [recorded in http://www.w3.org/2008/07/31-rdfa-minutes.html#action01]
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[PENDING] ACTION: Jeremy to demonstrate GRDDL with XHTML/RDFa once the NS URI is set up. [recorded in http://www.w3.org/2008/07/24-rdfa-minutes.html#action07]
15:06:58 [RalphS]
[PENDING] ACTION: Manu to create test cases for testing relative URI resolution (href/CURIEs/etc). [recorded in http://www.w3.org/2008/07/31-rdfa-minutes.html#action22]
15:07:08 [RalphS]
[PENDING] ACTION: Manu write the perl code for Slashdot [recorded in http://www.w3.org/2008/06/26-rdfa-minutes.html#action03]
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[DONE] ACTION: Manu: Start Best Practices Section on the rdfa.info wiki [recorded in http://www.w3.org/2008/07/17-rdfa-minutes.html#action16]
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-> http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-rdf-in-xhtml-tf/2008Aug/0093.html RDFa Best Practices (on wiki)
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[Manu 2008-08-21]
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[PENDING] ACTION: Mark create base wizard suitable for cloning [recorded in http://www.w3.org/2008/06/26-rdfa-minutes.html#action12]
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[PENDING] ACTION: Mark write foaf examples for wiki [recorded in http://www.w3.org/2008/06/26-rdfa-minutes.html#action07]
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[DONE] ACTION: Michael to complete implementation report and send out notification to all working groups. [recorded in http://www.w3.org/2008/07/31-rdfa-minutes.html#action20]
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[PENDING] ACTION: Michael to create 'RDFa for uF users' on RDFa Wiki [recorded in http://www.w3.org/2008/03/13-rdfa-minutes.html#action12]
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[DONE] ACTION: Michael to rewrite and extend http://rdfa.info/wiki/Tutorials for RSS (maybe with seq) [recorded in http://www.w3.org/2008/07/10-rdfa-minutes.html#action08]
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-> @@ tutorial
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[PENDING] ACTION: Ralph think about RSS+RDFa [recorded in http://www.w3.org/2008/06/26-rdfa-minutes.html#action11]
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[PENDING] ACTION: Ralph to make http://www.w3.org/2008/07/rdfa-xslt happen [recorded in http://www.w3.org/2008/07/24-rdfa-minutes.html#action05]
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[PENDING] ACTION: Shane to start a wiki page for HTML4/5 [recorded in http://www.w3.org/2008/07/24-rdfa-minutes.html#action21]
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[PENDING] ACTION: Shane to update XHTML ns document to point to new XSLT URI [recorded in http://www.w3.org/2008/07/24-rdfa-minutes.html#action06]
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[PENDING] ACTION: Shane to write home page for SPREAD. [recorded in http://www.w3.org/2008/07/03-rdfa-minutes.html#action12]
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Topic: SWD WG telecon
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-> http://www.w3.org/2008/08/19-swd-minutes 19 Aug SWD WG telecon
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-> http://www.w3.org/2008/08/19-swd-minutes#item03 RDFa topic
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Topic: SWD call
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oops
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scribenick: msporny
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Ralph: They have agreed to look at RDFa Syntax document.
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Jeremy: Everything seemed good.
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q+
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Ralph: They are going to vote on proposed rec on RDFa at next weeks telecon.
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-> http://www.w3.org/2008/08/19-swd-minutes#item05 CURIE discussion
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s/weeks/week's/
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Ralph: We had discovered that we missed a message from the XHTML2 WG to do a formal review response on LC for CURIE spec.
15:13:36 [Steven]
For shame! ;-)
15:14:05 [msporny]
Ralph: I reminded them that it would be odd to not give input on content of CURIE spec, since it's used heavily in RDFa.
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Ralph: Jeremy volunteered on stand-alone CURIE spec.
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ack Steven
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scribe: ralph
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scribenick: ralph
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Steven: the XHTML2 WG resolved yesterday to take RDFa Syntax to PR
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And XForms are planning to use it
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Shane: there are 4 other specs using the standalone CURIE spec: XHTML Role, Access, XML Events 2, and XHTML2
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Jeremy: I note that CURIEs are more versatile than QNames
15:17:36 [Steven]
Yes, exactly
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that's the point
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Manu: what's the next step?
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Ralph: SWD WG formally resolves to request PR transition -- likely to happen next Tuesday
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... then Ralph schedules a Transition Meeting with Steve Bratt
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... then, assuming Steve agrees we have met the CR exit criteria, we publish
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Shane: I need a new status paragraph from Ralph
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Ralph: right
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scribenick: msporny
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Ralph: Then, there is an announcement to the advisory committee, call for review for PR
15:22:45 [msporny]
Ralph: Also in that announcement, there is a solicitation for any member to offer a testimonial to go into the press release.
15:23:02 [msporny]
Ralph: There is a 4 week window for the review responses to arrive.
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Ralph: So if call for review went out before Sept. 2nd, then some time in the beginning of October the team would look at the review responses.
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Ralph: So we're looking at a directors response in early October.
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Steven: Would be good to do this before Technical Plenary.
15:24:25 [Steven]
TP is week of 20 Oct
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Ralph: We could have call for review before Sept. 2nd, Review closes before Oct 2nd, Directors decision before Oct 14th.
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Shane: When is publication moratorium?
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Ralph: I'd expect that it is no later than the 14th.
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topic: Outreach
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scribenick: ralph
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Manu: over the past few months we've been working on slashdot, Yahoo, and digg to integrate RDFa
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... digg had done it but recently removed the additions
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... Ben is working with Yahoo
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... any other tech sites we should work with?
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... cnet ?
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... connections to people who do press releases and news items?
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... I can talk with my contact at BBC
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... I'll also talk with Jamie Mccarthy at slashdot; they might be willing to do an interview
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ACTION: Manu talk with Jamie McCarthy about an AskSlashdot piece
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Michael Smethurst
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ACTION: Manu talk with Michael Smethurst at BBC about RDFa
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Manu: for community-building, we've started the wiki and public-rdfa@w3.org list
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Ralph: there are currently 72 subscribers to public-rdfa
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Manu: what can we do to get more conversation going?
15:33:05 [Steven]
:-)
15:33:22 [msporny]
Mozilla Labs Aurora Browser: http://www.vimeo.com/1450211
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not to mention rdfa.info
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Manu: Aurora video is a concept piece
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... everything they're doing is built around the concept of objects that can be moved around in a browser
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... I recommend looking at those 4 videos
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Topic: Implementation tools
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s|n t|ns and T|
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Jeremy: TopBraid has had some limited RDFa editing support for a long time
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... the wsywyg editor is currently lower on our to-do list than other more pressing tasks
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... though it's actually close to being done
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I have made the request to generate http://www.w3.org/2008/08/21-rdfa-minutes.html RalphS
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Manu: Firefox Operator is kind-of stalled at the moment
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... new versions of Operator are being released but there's not been a lot of work lately on new ways to use RDFa
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Jeremy: we have a to-do feature list for TopBraid
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... we work on the ones that customers are requiring
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i/-> previous/scribenick: ralphs
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I have made the request to generate http://www.w3.org/2008/08/21-rdfa-minutes.html RalphS
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i/We can do a/scribenick: ralphs
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I have made the request to generate http://www.w3.org/2008/08/21-rdfa-minutes.html RalphS
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Manu: customers might only get interested in RDFa once they see a really nice application implemented
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Jeremy: we believe in the usefulness of the technology
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Shane: this is a general challenge for RDF
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Jeremy: but consider spreadsheets -- TopBraid does support reading Excel spreadsheets because most of our customers do use Excel
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... we don't have trouble selling RDF for integrating user information
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... and we're likely not to have trouble selling RDFa
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i/Steven: the XHTML2/scribenick: ralphs
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I have made the request to generate http://www.w3.org/2008/08/21-rdfa-minutes.html RalphS
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Manu: I wonder if we should focus on getting some core pieces of RDFa into Firefox
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... for example, the ability to parse RDFa and giving access to that triple store
15:44:22 [RalphS]
Ralph: yep, Tabulator @@ is a Firefox plug-in. It will have RDFa support via GRDDL as soon as I complete my action, but it would be a big performance win to have native RDFa parsing for tools like Tabulator
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Manu: is it our goal to have every browser parse RDFa?
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Jeremy: yes, yes, yes :)
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Steven: I'm not sure that it really matters in the short term
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... it would be fine if they did, but life will go on if they don't
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Steven: there are extension points in browsers, so you can implement lots of functionality without the browser developers having to sign on
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... we should not predicate our success on having to get the browsers to sign up
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Manu: so javascript and client side development our path?
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Steven: yes
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... we saw the same sort of reaction in the early days of SVG and XSLT
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Ralph: maybe RDFa API for Javascript is low-hanging fruit?
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Steven: similar things are being discussed in the Backplane Incubator Group
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... they're deciding that the way forward is to do APIs
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Manu: some of the core work we're dealing with at DigitalBazaar is hampered by the lack of standard APIs to triples
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Ralph: there's also the widget factory stuff
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i/Manu: over the/scribenick: ralphs
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Topic: Documentation on Wiki
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Manu: who's been updating the wiki?
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[no voices]
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Manu: I'm interested in getting the discussion started on [public-rdfa] as that makes it much easier to update the wiki
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Shane: the only thing I plan to do is the HTML4/5+RDFa page
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Steven: I plan to do some updates to the implementations page
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I have made the request to generate http://www.w3.org/2008/08/21-rdfa-minutes.html RalphS
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Manu: do we have enough of a framework in the wiki now?
15:53:27 [RalphS]
Shane: not really but it will come with the growth of the community and continued evangelism
15:53:49 [RalphS]
Manu: I could flesh out the tutorial section a bit more based on experience from microformats
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... Jeremy, would you care to expand on the TopBraid paragraph?
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ACTION: Jeremy review and consider expanding the description of TopBraid in the RDFa wiki
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s|/5||
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I have made the request to generate http://www.w3.org/2008/08/21-rdfa-minutes.html RalphS
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Ralph: don't forget about the Primer
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... perhaps it could usefully be a bit longer
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Shane: have people thought about how we're going to deal with XMLLiteral in HTML4+RDFa ?
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Jeremy: I've thought about it but takes longer than 2 minutes to explain
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Manu: there's also the @prefix question for HTML4
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zakim, list attendees
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As of this point the attendees have been Ralph, msporny, Steven, ShaneM, Jeremy
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I have made the request to generate http://www.w3.org/2008/08/21-rdfa-minutes.html RalphS
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[adjourned]
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-ShaneM
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-Jeremy
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-Steven
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-Ralph
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-msporny
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SW_SWD(RDFa)11:00AM has ended
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Attendees were Ralph, msporny, Steven, ShaneM, Jeremy
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rrsagent, bye
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I see 6 open action items saved in http://www.w3.org/2008/08/21-rdfa-actions.rdf :
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ACTION: Ben and Manu to test implementations on step 9 (no child nodes with @property) [recorded in http://www.w3.org/2008/08/14-rdfa-minutes.html#action23] [1]
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recorded in http://www.w3.org/2008/08/21-rdfa-irc#T15-03-23
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ACTION: Manu write a pending test case for literal property and no child nodes [2]
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recorded in http://www.w3.org/2008/08/21-rdfa-irc#T15-04-30
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ACTION: Ralph prepare to summarize new W3C test suite license on 28 Aug [3]
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recorded in http://www.w3.org/2008/08/21-rdfa-irc#T15-05-11
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ACTION: Manu talk with Jamie McCarthy about an AskSlashdot piece [4]
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recorded in http://www.w3.org/2008/08/21-rdfa-irc#T15-29-27
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ACTION: Manu talk with Michael Smethurst at BBC about RDFa [5]
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recorded in http://www.w3.org/2008/08/21-rdfa-irc#T15-29-53
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ACTION: Jeremy review and consider expanding the description of TopBraid in the RDFa wiki [6]
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recorded in http://www.w3.org/2008/08/21-rdfa-irc#T15-55-17