15:59:09 RRSAgent has joined #egov 15:59:09 logging to http://www.w3.org/2012/11/16-egov-irc 15:59:20 Jeanne_Holm has joined #egov 15:59:53 zakim, this is egov 15:59:53 ok, PhilA2; that matches T&S_EGOV(Atlantic)11:00AM 16:00:00 zakim, code? 16:00:00 the conference code is 3468 (tel:+1.617.761.6200 sip:zakim@voip.w3.org), PhilA2 16:00:05 +bhyland 16:00:13 good morning all 16:00:24 +[IPcaller] 16:00:28 +[IPcaller.a] 16:00:35 zakim, IPcaller.a is me 16:00:35 +PhilA2; got it 16:00:39 I think I'm an IP caller too 16:00:41 zakim, who is on the call? 16:00:42 On the phone I see ??P1, +1.508.333.aaaa, +1.303.869.aabb, bhyland, [IPcaller], PhilA2 16:00:42 +??P12 16:00:44 Um, me too. 16:00:52 Good day all. 16:01:08 -??P12 16:01:11 Zakim, aaaa is GannonDick 16:01:11 +GannonDick; got it 16:01:27 + +1.703.281.aacc 16:01:35 Good day all 16:01:50 zakim, ipcaller is GwynSutherlin 16:01:50 + +88697069aadd 16:01:50 +GwynSutherlin; got it 16:02:12 zakim, +88697069aadd is thschee 16:02:12 +thschee; got it 16:02:29 zakim, who is on the call? 16:02:29 On the phone I see ??P1, GannonDick, +1.303.869.aabb, bhyland, GwynSutherlin, PhilA2, +1.703.281.aacc, thschee 16:02:50 zakim, aabb is bgryth 16:02:51 +bgryth; got it 16:03:15 zakim, aacc is brand 16:03:15 +brand; got it 16:03:32 zakim, who is on the call? 16:03:32 On the phone I see ??P1, GannonDick, bgryth, bhyland, GwynSutherlin, PhilA2, brand, thschee 16:04:31 DeirdreLee has joined #egov 16:04:35 + +3539149aaee 16:04:53 zakim, aaee is DeirdreLee 16:04:53 +DeirdreLee; got it 16:05:40 zakim, who is on the call? 16:05:40 On the phone I see ??P1, GannonDick, bgryth, bhyland, GwynSutherlin, PhilA2, brand, thschee, DeirdreLee 16:05:53 zakim, P1 is Jeanne 16:05:53 sorry, bhyland, I do not recognize a party named 'P1' 16:06:02 zakim, ??P1 is Jeanne_Holm 16:06:02 +Jeanne_Holm; got it 16:06:38  Agenda 16:06:38 • 0800-0810: Open Data Kickoff (Jeanne Holm) 16:06:38 • 0810-0830: 2012 TPAC Overview (Bernadette Hyland) 16:06:38 ◦ TPAC 2012: http://3roundstones.com/2012/11/08/tpac-2012-liberte-and-the-open-web-platform/ 16:06:38 ◦ TPAC 2012: http://3roundstones.com/2012/11/08/tpac-2012-4-days-of-open-web-standards-nouvelle-cuisine/ 16:06:38 • 0830-0855: OpenColorado (Brian Gryth) 16:06:38 • 0855-0920: Plans for Summarizing eGov Discussions (Daniel Bennett) 16:06:39 • 0920-0930: Call for session on open data at http://www2013.org/ (Jeanne Holm) 16:07:47 ISWC info at http://iswc2012.semanticweb.org/ 16:08:06 I have no idea what I'm doing 16:08:33 Topic: Summary of ISWC2012, ISWC, ISWC12 16:08:43 The keynote I gave is online already at http://www.slideshare.net/jeanneholm1/iswc-2012-keynote 16:09:32 Gannon...follow what I do... 16:09:44 got it 16:09:49 bhyland: ISWC2012 was very good, every other poster session referenced linked data, which was a change 16:10:15 bhyland: Previously was OWL, inferencing, and was more about big data and scaling 16:10:40 bhyland: half from Europe 16:10:44 bhyland: Largely European, next Asia, next US--but clearly global impact. Perhaps 700+ at the conference 16:11:10 :-) 16:11:55 bhyland: Big projects, large scale, commercial projects as well 16:12:26 yeah iTirage 16:12:43 iTriage was started by two doctors from Colorado 16:13:26 Jeanne_Holm: Thanks everyone who has been participating in the last 3 months or so 16:13:51 ... Trying to get people from different and diverse countries 16:14:39 ... we've concluded proceedings on social media for now. Daniel is going to talk about how we're going to craft an actual W3C Note from that 16:15:06 Topic: Plans for topic or Open data 16:15:29 Jeanne_Holm: Talks coming up on aggregating and using open data 16:15:51 ... starting with broad scale over views and we'll then get into more specifics 16:16:09 ... we can extend the series as long as the group wants us to 16:16:36 Topic: Bernadette Hyland on TPAC 2012 16:16:53 I got it Phil... 16:17:03  TPAC 2012: http://3roundstones.com/2012/11/08/tpac-2012-liberte-and-the-open-web-platform/ 16:17:03     ◦    TPAC 2012: http://3roundstones.com/2012/11/08/tpac-2012-4-days-of-open-web-standards-nouvelle-cuisine/ 16:17:24 bhyland: At TPAC 2012 this year eGov and Gov Linked Data groups did not have a formal event, although they did last year 16:17:48 bhyland: The technical plenary and advisory committee (TPAC) is where the 380 member organizations have a chance to impact the priorities of the W3C 16:18:36 bhyland: W3C staff can also share what is going on with the overall organization. Each member company (like IBM or Oracle) gets one representative. 16:19:21 bhyland: W3C put on an amazing event and the blogs posted above contain my notes 16:19:38 Daniel_Bennett has joined #egov 16:20:14 + +1.202.651.aaff 16:20:49 Pretty much any and all praise for the organisation of TPAC is due to the rather wonderful Alex http://www.w3.org/People/all#alex 16:20:51 bhyland: Jeff''s key point was that the W3C is in early phase of adoption and was grounded that there is a lot to be done 16:21:20 bhyland: Big project with focus is HTML5 but won't be published formally as a standard until 2014 16:22:10 Web Platform http://www.webplatform.org/ 16:22:15 bhyland: Web developers of all kinds should have a place on the web where they can get access to documentation (Doug Shepherd?) which is the clearing house 16:22:46 correction: Web Platform as noted 16:23:47 bhyland: There is a Department of Education grant to the W3C for the person to help lead the accessibility group--very cool and impressive with the number of people who are producing the platform at all levels of abilities 16:23:48 Worth noting that our Web Content Accessibility Guidelines are cited in the legislation of several countries (as well as more in gov guidelines) 16:24:44 bhyland: Extraordinary experience, who's who of thought leaders, not academic like ISWC. You should definitely participate and plan to attend when able. Well honed W3C infrastructure. 16:25:41 Community Groups and Business Groups have replaced Incubator Groups as the quick start, lightweight process for bringing/airing work at W3C 16:25:48 bhyland: Community groups are new to W3C--if someone has an idea for something (like Henry Story on WebID) and gets 5 people to agree, then they can propose a community. 16:27:10 Jenni Tennison did a great key note about linking RDF, JSON as well as HTML and XML 16:27:14 bhyland: JSON developers proposed a spec for working with linked data as an example (had been initiated by a community group) 16:27:42 -> JSON-LD Community Group http://www.w3.org/community/json-ld/ 16:28:01 ->emerging JSON-LD syntax spec http://www.w3.org/TR/json-ld-syntax/ 16:28:02 bhyland: Great way for companies to be able to contribute to the open web platform 16:29:36 video by Jenni Tennison about linking RDF, JSON, HTML, and XML http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0K_CAiVyqTQ 16:29:39 bhyland: Big emphasis was on HTML5, mobile support and devices, and the Open Web Platform 16:29:43 jalapenos for pizza available ? 16:30:02 Ooh, thanks Daniel_Bennett I've not seen that 16:30:26 #1 theme from Gov't breakout was: 16:30:27 Everyone wants ROI stories for publication & consumption of Linked Data. 16:30:37 #2 - Common problem is overwhelming government officials with tech speak. Consider having a template from which internal champions can pull language: 16:30:37 • Financial benefits 16:30:37 • Social responsibility benefits 16:30:37 • Legal & regulatory benefits 16:30:37 • Technical benefits 16:31:11 #3 theme - Need to document on W3C site compelling applications using Linked Data are critical, beef up SWEO concept & bring it up to date for LD deployments in the wild.  This will help Gartner too. 16:31:23 http://www.w3.org/egov/wiki/images/d/d6/Gryth_OpenData_eGov.ppt 16:31:28 Jeanne_Holm: Thanks Bernadette. We're seeing real traction on data across the board - good stuff! 16:31:52 Topic: Brian Gryth on Open Data 16:32:39 bgryth: The vision of Open Colorado is that we are looking to support transformation that is happening in goverment that will be more beautiful, simply and easy to use 16:32:46 bgryth: We are created to help make that happen 16:32:59 slide 3 16:33:09 bgryth: Education, tools, and partnerships are the focus 16:33:28 Slide 4 16:33:44 bgryth: Education = W3C, Code for America, OKF involvement, plus CGATE, which is open government at local levels 16:35:00 bgryth: DenverCog--regional group that works with governments to free up the data 16:35:12 bgryth: OpenColorado helps to host data as well 16:35:49 Colorado Municipal League--city managers and attorneys, presentations on what open government is and touching on open data and policies that are needed 16:36:46 bgryth: Social media trainings, and CityCamps--last one in October and a combo conference/unconference 16:37:24 http://opencolorado.org/citycamp-colorado/ 16:37:50 bgryth: The tool component is at http://data.opencolorado.org 16:38:31 bgryth: We look at how to make data findable and get it out. We have Denver, Arvada, Boulder, Castlerock, and counties of Denver and Boulder. A CKAN instance from OKF. 16:39:14 bgryth: Went with CKAN based on Data.gov.uk model of using open source platform and tools (US Data.gov was custom built at that time) 16:40:20 (Personal note: Data.gov released open source code on Github now too ;-) https://github.com/opengovplatform 16:41:04 bgryth: First city camp had a lot of CEOs and CIOs saying that data was open, but didn't know how to go to the next step with policies 16:41:49 bgryth: We sat down and wrote a policy based on President Obama's open government directive and created a model policy that looked at the ways to create a policy 16:42:17 bgryth: Cook County adopted as well as others 16:42:25 bgryth: Technology + policy component 16:42:51 bgryth: We are a small group and this is not our main jobs, so we need help to build capacity and we partner with governments 16:42:51 we're now on slide 6 16:43:58 bgryth: A lot of gov attorneys do not know about IP, but there is a shift now and we are helping them understand about open record requests, digital material, and trademarks and open data and open gov 16:44:17 @bgryth, do you want to take questions interleaved or at end? 16:44:42 bgryth: At same time as this CityCamp, there was Denver StartUp week and we ran events on civic innovation http://denverstartupweek.com/ 16:46:02 bgryth: Had an apps challenge and got two winners: Open Bike (bike lockers, thefts, paths) lets people create and rate bike routes (overview at http://opencolorado.org/citycamp-colorado-2012-presenters/) 16:46:09 Indy needs an app like that. they are bike/car planning challenged 16:46:38 Apps around bicyle usage is interesting. How do you comment on a point of interest along the route? i.e. how do you represent a POI I wonder 16:46:42 bgryth: Second winner: Displaying and visualizing the data around crime 16:47:22 bgryth: Next focus is on rural communities that may not have digital literacy or technologies, they give a lot back to the big cities, so how to help each other 16:48:16 internet access in rural US is worse than in middle of amazon 16:48:22 bgryth: We are creating an Adopt a City program (slide 7) that over 4 years helps rural cities get up and running through training and mentorship 16:48:50 bgryth: Code for Communities: odeforcommunities.org 16:49:03 bgryth: Code for communities: http://codeforcommunities.org 16:49:11 denver-wiki.org 16:50:00 http://denver-wiki.org 16:50:29 bgryth: Storify on CityCamp: http://storify.com/michelehovet/citycampco-2012. 16:50:39 bgryth: Host to Host a City Camp: http://www.govtech.com/govgirl/How-to-Host-a-CityCamp.html 16:50:57 whew! Does bgryth breath?? 16:51:05 q+ 16:51:11 q+ 16:51:15 don't think so 16:51:21 ack bhyland 16:51:21 ack bhyland 16:51:38 bhyland: Are you one of the oldest city open gov data efforts? 16:51:44 (Gannon--are you up for scribing the next talk?) 16:51:51 bgryth: We're first to adopt CKAN in the USA 16:51:54 bgryth: We started using CKAN in 2010 16:52:04 ... we're one of the older ones 16:52:08 trying jeanne can't type fst enough 16:52:30 bhyland: Questions: would it make sense to get a funded model? Have you surveyed or gotten seed funding? 16:52:31 bhyland: Huge achievements so far, but hwo about getting funding so it moves out of the willing volunteer sphere 16:52:38 bgryth: We have some funding to support website 16:52:47 bgryth: We have some funding for the hosting (on Amazon) 16:53:20 Thanks! 16:53:44 bgryth: We're going to have to look at different models. WE have a lot of partners. Denver almost doubled our catalogue. DRCOG is the largest and we're getting that by scraping their site 16:53:51 ... need to look at improving that 16:54:03 ... right now it's free for the gov. We'd like to change that 16:54:12 ... need a more sustainable model 16:54:57 ... got ideas on working with other portals. Want to integrate across not just catalogues bu catalogue platforms 16:55:15 ... the 6 of us that do this are running at capacity. We need help 16:55:50 bhyland: The other comment I'd make... I work on getting federal data published. Screen scraped data is likely to back fire as it is brittle 16:56:04 ... no thought about licences, URI persistence etc. 16:56:28 ... feels like a bunch of enthusiastic university folk. Needs broader/state/federal level support 16:56:39 ... I want to help make it more sustainable 16:56:56 bgryth: I agree... we want to make sure that we do what you're saying 16:57:02 ... needs to become sustainable 16:57:36 ... I don't want it to become like a box ticking exercise with no commitment 16:57:52 ... they need to put resources behind it 16:57:59 It is *really* important that our open government data efforts are implemented in a sustainable manner, with OSI-approved Open Licenses are associated with data sets, and other key metadata about publication frequency, disclaimers, etc 16:58:18 … and well considered Web architecture 16:58:28 … and done in a scalable manner that avoid data duplication 16:59:17 bgryth: For the hackathon, we didn't give prize money, we got a management firm to give them their kind of help to help them be more sustainable 16:59:25 ack PhilA2 16:59:58 http://www.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/openstandards 17:00:31 PhilA2: Interesting to see the different perspective where there is investment in the UK and here in Colorado it's a volunteer effort for OpenColorado 17:01:02 PhilA2: Are there standards you wish existed if people would use them? 17:01:09 RE: W3C Government Linked Data Standards … 17:02:41 bgryth: There are a lot of organizations looking at the problems around this 17:02:51 bgryth: Trying to form a CKAN association and then work with the W3C 17:03:13 @ggryth - I'd invite you to consider discussing / contributing some of the lessons learned about managing datasets to help it become codified in a W3C published Best Practices doc ... 17:03:27 (Daniel--are you set?) 17:03:53 bgryth: License  17:03:54 Select the license under which the data is released.OpenColorado recommends either of the following licenses:http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ 17:05:25 Topic: Daniel Bennett Plans for Summarizing eGov Discussions 17:05:29 Thanks everyone! 17:05:38 See wiki http://www.w3.org/egov/wiki/Plans 17:05:45 http://www.w3.org/egov/wiki/Plans 17:06:01 @pgryth, thank you for a very comprehensive dive on Open Colorado, great work! Very interesting, thank you. 17:06:24 Daniel_Bennett: The idea is that for each of these, we'll have a meeting to get us towards a concrete/finsihed product. These will be separate from the monthly eGov IG meetings 17:06:47 Daniel_Bennett: Series of Meetings 17:06:47 Whiteboard/Ideas session 17:06:47 Requirements 17:06:47 Outline 17:06:47 Delegation 17:06:47 First Draft Deadline 17:06:47 Executive Summary/One pager 17:06:48 Editorial Session for content 17:06:48 Editorial Session for accessibility, proofing, readability 17:06:48 W3C vetting 17:07:02 MacTed has joined #egov 17:07:17 Daniel_Bennett: Delegation - volunteers often dry up so here's where we get people to commit to deliver a section 17:07:27 ... that will tell us how real this is 17:07:37 q 17:07:40 q- 17:08:09 Who is the target audience for this writeup? 17:09:42 We can be quick when we have to be, honestly... 17:10:21 @Daniel_Bennett … can you provide the 50,000' view of what you're aiming to achieve with this writeup please? 17:10:28 Daniel_Bennett: We may use the wiki or we may have a secretary (prob me) who will collect text in whatever format and add it to the wiki 17:10:47 Target audience is for the larger community of eGov people who are not actually on the calls themselves. 17:10:56 Daniel_Bennett: I think having a checklist for gov workers is important 17:11:24 ... it can be something generic enough for everyone to use and can be tailored to specific circumstances 17:11:36 rrsagent, make logs public 17:11:36 Daniel_Bennett: Have a menu for social media to broaden the possibilities 17:11:53 http://www.w3.org/egov/wiki/Checklist_for_Social_Media 17:11:59 @Jeanne_Holm, so is it a summary of all the eGov meetings or a work product like a best practices doc? 17:13:05 Daniel_Bennett: The idea is that there is a process - rules etc. on how they do things. So first thing would be to draw a diagram of how they do things in that department 17:13:18 Bhyland--a work product that will highlight some best practices (not to be an exhaustive research project) and the important things for gov implementers and those in the field to be aware of based on research and implementations presented from our group. 17:13:43 @jeanne_holm, thanks, understand. 17:13:50 Daniel_Bennett: Then any legal issues. The federal gov has a specific contract. Others might have similar things to deal with. Accessibility, privacy etc. 17:14:03 Daniel_Bennett: May be rules on moderation 17:14:51 Daniel_Bennett: May be rules on publishing government communications, activities etc. 17:15:25 Daniel_Bennett: In the whiteboard session I can look at the different layers so folks can see who they'll need to talk to 17:16:20 Daniel_Bennett: Moves on to the menu http://www.w3.org/egov/wiki/Menu_for_Social_Media 17:17:33 q 17:17:52 Daniel_Bennett: Hoping to have a meeting every 2 weeks to make progress. Hope people are interested to lend a hand 17:18:48 Jeanne_Holm: I just want to mention a couple of things. You've done some of these before - I like the framework 17:19:03 Jeanne_Holm: You didn't volunteer to do everything. 17:19:14 Daniel_Bennett: I volunteered to do the social media one 17:19:42 Jeanne_Holm: We're looking for volunteers for this but also to do the same thing for the open data series as well 17:19:53 Daniel_Bennett: Any questions or, better still, offers of help? 17:20:05 Please make sure to include me on the meeting for social media write up! 17:20:09 Daniel_Bennett: I'll take help from outsdie the Interest Group! 17:21:13 bhyland: I would encourage at least quarterly attendance for some folk here in the GLD Working Group http://www.w3.org/2011/gld/ 17:21:48 These are great meetings and I enoucrage people to attend as well. I attend as able. 17:21:52 bhyland: The vocab discussions may not be the ones of greatest interest but the best practice meetings would be - procurement, publishing etc. 17:23:16 brand: In a broader perspective... all this work with government open data and linked data should have started in a different way. Should have started with most interesting data and then move other data sets to the same direction 17:23:17 Brand: This should have started in a different way with the best data from the gov agencies in the best standards and then to move the rest of the data that way. 17:23:38 brand: We tried to make data.gov that way but it ended up essentially being an IT project 17:24:28 brand: I'm writing a paper for the Japanese government. They started with CKAN. I've been asked to take the statistical data they have and put that into a standardised linked data format as well as the CKAN data 17:25:12 ... It's all about trying to take the best data a country has first and then get the open data to match 17:25:39 Topic: WWW2013 Brazil 17:25:59 Jeanne_Holm: Are we interested in organising a session on eGov/Open data? 17:26:28 Jeanne_Holm: It could be based on the social media Note that we should have published by then, possibly the one on open data by then too 17:26:57 Jeanne_Holm: If we can come together in the coming weeks and see who wants to be involved - it's a good opportunity for the group 17:27:03 General call for help with flights 17:27:54 PhilA2: The W3C staff involved in Society & Technology Activity believe the tech stack is nearly complete. 17:27:55 @bhyland - we would be happy to discuss lessons learned. Let me know how you'd like to do that. 17:28:35 PhilA2: OKF and UK ODI event on Open Data on the Web: use, discovery, find it programmatically, vocabulary development 17:29:10 Next requirements involve: #1 - Validation; #2 - Programmatic & developer access & re-use of data; #3 - Vocabulary development (some being done in W3C GLD WG), looking to consider more 'crowd sourced' approaches ... 17:29:13 PhilA2: This is just tentative and may happen 17:29:16 q+ 17:29:40 ack DeirdreLee 17:30:15 European data Forum 2013 http://2013.data-forum.eu/ 17:30:18 European Data Forum, 9-10 April in Dublin Ireland … all about open data + Linked Data 17:30:20 Yeah! 17:31:36 Jeanne_Holm: Next meeting at this time is on 14th Dec 17:32:25 Jeanne_Holm: Rufus Pollock is scheduled for the next IG meeting which is on 26th Nov 09:00GMT - bad for US folk, sorry 17:32:45 Jeanne_Holm: Brain Handspicker has volunteered to scribe next time. 17:32:53 @jeanne-holm, perhaps a 15 debrief on GLD WG including community directory work makes sense … a brief on what we've completed in last 16 mos & plan for remaining months of our charter (7 mos). 17:33:05 -brand 17:33:06 -bgryth 17:33:06 -GannonDick 17:33:07 -DeirdreLee 17:33:07 -bhyland 17:33:09 -Jeanne_Holm 17:33:09 -PhilA2 17:33:11 -GwynSutherlin 17:33:16 -thschee 17:33:18 rrsagent, draft minutes 17:33:18 I have made the request to generate http://www.w3.org/2012/11/16-egov-minutes.html PhilA2 17:33:18 thanks Jeanne. volunteers can list their names on the Plans wiki page or email me daniel@citizencontact.com 17:33:21 GannonDick has left #egov 17:33:40 - +1.202.651.aaff 17:33:42 T&S_EGOV(Atlantic)11:00AM has ended 17:33:42 Attendees were +1.508.333.aaaa, +1.303.869.aabb, bhyland, PhilA2, GannonDick, +1.703.281.aacc, GwynSutherlin, thschee, bgryth, brand, +3539149aaee, DeirdreLee, Jeanne_Holm, 17:33:42 ... +1.202.651.aaff 17:33:46 rrsagent, draft minutes 17:33:46 I have made the request to generate http://www.w3.org/2012/11/16-egov-minutes.html PhilA2 17:34:53 meeting: eGov IG 16 November 2012 17:35:01 chair: Jeanne Holm 17:35:06 rrsagent, draft minutes 17:35:06 I have made the request to generate http://www.w3.org/2012/11/16-egov-minutes.html PhilA2 17:39:31 PhilA2 has left #egov 19:01:49 bhyland has joined #egov 20:00:13 Zakim has left #egov