See also: IRC log
Propose to accept: http://www.w3.org/2012/05/16-swcg-minutes.html
<mhausenblas> +1
+1
accepted
Discussed summer recess for SWCG meetings
<davidwood> I will be on vacation for the last two weeks of July.
Propose next meeting 1-Aug-2012
<pgroth> i'm on holiday in august
<pgroth> i live in europe now :-)
Confirmed next meeting 1-Aug acknowledging we'll miss a few people due to holidays
<ivan> RDFa is in Rec![2]
<ivan> New version of the RDF Concepts published[3]
<ivan> RDB2RDF 2nd Last Call[4]
Congratulations!
<pgroth> +10
<mhausenblas> congrats, indeed! :)
<tbaker> +11
[3] http://www.w3.org/blog/SW/2012/06/05/new-rdf-1-1-concepts-and-abstract-syntax-draft-published/
[4] http://www.w3.org/blog/SW/2012/05/30/rdb2rdf-2nd-lc/
Attended who are on the call: Ivan, DavidW
Discussed feedback & observations ...
DavidW: SemTech SF Conference attendance lower, by about 30%. Almost no there from US Gov't due to budget restrictions, except a couple people from US DoD.
<George> I would've been there, but it conflicted with the #healthdata palooza...bummer
IBM & Oracle put on a strong statement, lots of new semantic support.
<George> @davidwood - haven't seen your slides yet - where?
Ivan's talk was well attended. Dave's talk on the RDF WG was we covered on Twitter. People were engaged.
Dave delivered a talk on behalf of GLD WG about the state of Gov Open Data Worldwide and very well attended, about 45 people.
Link to the Progress Report on on W3C GLD WG site & here http://www.slideshare.net/3roundstones/progress-update-on-government-linked-data-world
Bart van Leeuwen gave a very strong keynote and was present at the GLD WG talk.
<davidwood> Progress Report on Government Linked Data Worldwide
<davidwood> by Bernadette Hyland (but presented by me)
<davidwood> http://www.slideshare.net/3roundstones/progress-update-on-government-linked-data-world
<davidwood> Updates to the RDF Core Standards
<davidwood> by David Wood
<davidwood> http://www.slideshare.net/3roundstones/rdf-wg-update-semtechbiz-2012
<davidwood> Panel: Linked Enterprise Data Patterns
<davidwood> David Wood, Arnaud le Hors, Ashok Malhotra
<davidwood> http://www.slideshare.net/3roundstones/semtechbiz-2012-panel-on-linking-enterprise-data
<davidwood> George ^^
<George> thanks davidwood
Another active participant was Cray who held a dinner and announced a $100k challenge
<George> we're hoping to apply UriKA to the LDA+PPO approach with CMS/ORNL
Ivan spoke with Pearson Publishing
Pearson is interested in setting up a W3C IG, with support from Christine Connors, to help share info on ontologies and LD patterns.
… this is not final, just discussed.
<George> can anyone point to the Cray challenge info?
<George> thanks much :)
… Ivan met with TopQuadrant and discussed RDF simple rules standards. Ivan to revisit after holiday.
Ivan's presentation on Tuesday went well. He also participated in panel on Schema.org which was very well attended.
<George> SPIN used well in GLD related XBRL <-> DataCube works (Benedikt) - very interested in SPIN (r)evolutions in W3
On the schema.org panel:
javascript: openpopup('sessionPop.cfm?confid=65&proposalid=4799') Ivan Herman, World Wide Web Consortium
Alexander Shubin, Yandex
Dan Brickley, Schema.org at Google
Evan Sandhaus, New York Times Company
Jeffrey W. Preston, Disney Interactive Media Group
John Giannandrea, Google
Peter Mika, Yahoo!
R.V. Guha, Google
Steve Macbeth, Microsoft
Observations: some still concerned the process not as transparent as it could be. Others said there has been a lot of improvement. Everyone pleased they were talking about RDFa 1.1 and RDFa Light
… Concerns still around a handful of people driving it.
Danbri has been instrumental in bringing many people from large organizations together to discuss this at SemTech.
<George> somebody please tell John Sowa about these :)
<pgroth> :-(
Ivan: Lots of hallway discussions around RDB2RDF
<davidwood> …and of course there was also this: 3 Round Stones has been named the “Top Semantic Technology Start-Up,” http://semanticweb.com/3-round-stones-named-%E2%80%9Ctop-semantic-technology-start-up%E2%80%9D-at-semantic-tech-business-conference_b29646
Good presentation about JSON-LD by Gregg Kellogg
Ivan gave a general intro on sem technologies to Oracle at Redwood CA headquarters
<George> congrats again 3RS and thanks davidwood for doing the GLD update!
<mhausenblas> well deserved!
<pgroth> +q
RE: SemTech top startup award. The prize was recognition but also a small lexan statue that caused him trouble with the TSA. Dave enjoyed "special screening" by TSA officers that delayed him by 15 minutes ...
<davidwood> Thanks, Michael!
<davidwood> …and George
<George> TSA Tweets: http://www.theatlanticwire.com/entertainment/2010/11/best-tweets-tsa-body-scanning-edition/22261/
Reza B'far from Oracle gave a talk on Provenance
<George> http://www.hdiforum.org/
Lead by now Federal CTO Todd Park, formerly the CIO of US Health & Human Services who is very supportive of Open Government Data generally … George has been advising on more semantic technologies
Tech Talk series Health TechTalk, April 16, 2012, see http://www.hhs.gov/open/discussion/newhealthdataresource.html
Report by George Thomas, Chief Architect, Office of the CIO; David Forrest, Healthdata.gov Lead Project Manager; Todd Park, US Chief Technology Officer
<George> 7 announced, 2 open now - first 2; apply standard vocabs, impl WebID - http://www.healthdata.gov/developer-challenges-overview
Lift off is happening in the US because of emerging commercial interest and pioneering government executive managers supporting a 4 & 5 star LD approach … US Gov execs using words like "machine readable", "open data for reuse by others", and "APIs" … not actually saying "Linked Data"
Sem Tech Keynote by Steve Harris, now at Experian. Great, great keynote.
Dave: Health Datapalooza had 1,600+ attendees focused on healthcare & open gov't data vs. 800 people at SemTech which is focused on technologies
Ivan: Note, there is a series SemTech conferences now in London, Berlin, DC and SF ...
<mhausenblas> Michael: Just adding for sake of completeness … the first European Data Forum (some 150 people, very mixed - SME, PSI, academics) was last week http://data-forum.eu/
@Michael, was that the event in Brussels?
<mhausenblas> Michael: The event was in Copenhagen, Denmark
<ivan> http://www.w3.org/People/Ivan/CorePresentations/Applications/Applications.pptx and http://www.w3.org/People/Ivan/CorePresentations/Applications/Applications.pdf
<mhausenblas> http://www.w3.org/2012/06/pmod/
Rufus Pollack & Nigel Shadbolt discussed LOD deployments in the UK
Lots of talks on NoSQL. Quite mixed discussions, applications and research. Preparing for follow up conference next year.
Meeting Adjourned. Thanks all! Happy holidays.
<George> thanks all - talk in Aug, bye :)
<pgroth> bye
<mhausenblas> cya
@ivan, are you handling publishing minutes or am I?
<ivan> bhyland: yep, I will take care of that
ok, bye. thanks.
<Guus> where do we meet?
<Guus> [for rdf chairs]
<davidwood> Guus, I have sent you a Skype contact request and can call you if you accept it.