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Dataset Exchange Working Group Teleconference

07 July 2020

Attendees

Present
Ana, AndreaPerego, annette_g, Caroline, riccardoAlbertoni
Regrets
Makx, Nick, Peter
Chair
Caroline
Scribe
annette_g

Meeting minutes

<Caroline> https://‌www.w3.org/‌2020/‌06/‌23-dxwg-minutes

proposed: accept last week's minutes

<Caroline> +1

+1

<Ana> +1

<AndreaPerego> +1

<riccardoAlbertoni> 0 (i Was not there)

Resolution: accept last week's minutes

Caroline announces that she is pregnant. congrats!

They will have a baby girl next month.

She has been talking with Peter how to do the transition, as she will be 6 months away for maternity.

Last time, it was a hard transition to come back, and Peter's help was great. Both Peter and Phillippe suggested we may want another chair. Karen said she could help.

Phillippe suggested we have a round-robin chair, where each meeting another person chairs.

Do you have any doubts about the proposal or other suggestions?

annette_g asks what else that would mean beside chairing meetings. Caroline says Peter can take care of the other pieces of chairing.
… and Karen says she can also help as well.

Ana also works with Caroline and says that she can help as well.

talking with the editors for DCAT is very easy, because it's well documented

riccardoAlbertoni: We need to figure out what we are going to do in August, where many people in Italy will likely go on vacation.

Caroline: that's a great point, it's an issue for us as well, and Phillippe also pointed out that it affects people in other countries.

We don't yet have the dates that people won't be available. The idea is to have a notification for that. The group only had two weeks break at the end of the year, and I think everyone would like to have some vacation.

riccardoAlbertoni: We've had calls with very few people, and we're a modest sized group to begin with. I would like that we have a meeting with the few people who are interested and decide.

Caroline: yes, there will be a vacation time. The dates just aren't decided yet.

What do you think about the proposal about chairing some of the meetings?

riccardoAlbertoni: I hope people don't mind my English.
… but let's try.

<AndreaPerego> Your English is perfect for me, riccardoAlbertoni ;)

Caroline: It's not mandatory that everyone will do it. We'll figure it out week by week.

The scribe can help.

annette_g is very patient. :)

Conneg

Nick sent around an email with his regrets that we should include in the minutes.

<Caroline> ConnegP IETF update from Lars: The ConnegP specification is waiting on the progress of another spec, “Link Hints” - https://‌tools.ietf.org/‌html/‌draft-nottingham-link-hint-02. The result of Link Hist progress will be known by mid-July and then we will get a definitive time schedule for ConnegP. This is the first solid indication if timing we’ve had in a while - Nick. ConnegP implementations: The Commission for Geoscience Information no[CUT]

<Caroline> , ConnegP for SKOS vocabulary access by use of the VocPrez tool (https://‌github.com/‌RDFLib/‌VocPrez/) at http://‌geosciml.org/‌resource/‌def/‌voc/.

Caroline: does anyone have comments on this?

nobody has comments

Caroline: I may not be on the next call, but Peter can come back to this.

Prof

<Caroline> For PROF: The OGC Profile Hierarchy is complete and in draft testing now. It will be published in production by the end of July which then completes the PROF Implementation Report. PROF meetings on status will be announced to the WG as soon as the OGC implementation is presented.

Caroline: any comments or questions?

nobody has comments

DCAT

<riccardoAlbertoni> https://‌github.com/‌w3c/‌dxwg/‌issues/‌1243,

riccardoAlbertoni: We discussed two issues this week and made some progress. The first issue was about the example of a DCAT manifest file.
… we added an example of the manifest mechanism. We realized that the examples we had needed to be more complete, and we had a pull request from Simon. This issue was from Eric Stephan. He explained the use case that he has. The idea was that what we can provide is probably some tool to express some relations.
… The rest of the use case is about reporting provenance. It's likely he needs to complement DCAT with other vocabularies.

<riccardoAlbertoni> https://‌github.com/‌w3c/‌dxwg/‌issues/‌1240

The second issue was about having an extension for DCAT for databases.
… We are trying to figure out when we can meet to discuss versioning, at least among the editors. We will try to advance some other issues about the Data Services.
… There's been some discussion on GitHub, and we'll continue with that.

<riccardoAlbertoni> https://‌github.com/‌w3c/‌dxwg/‌labels/‌dcat%3ADataService

questions? additions?

nope

Caroline: It's good to see that's moving forward.
… does anyone have anything they would like to ask for help from the group with?

riccardoAlbertoni: we could always use feedback on the DCAT GitHub.
… people often take a look and realize they have something to say about an issue.

Caroline: If you have any specific issues, like the versioning, then maybe just send an email to the working group.

riccardoAlbertoni: we are aiming to have people see the agenda and look a bit before the meeting so that they have something to say. Usually the agenda has more than we are able to discuss. It's a good reference for what's coming up for discussion.

Caroline: any other comments about DCAT or anything about the working group?

open actions

Caroline: I have one I haven't done yet but will do this week. It's not even in the actions, updating the wiki.

riccardoAlbertoni was to send an email to the group. That can be closed.

<AndreaPerego> close action-423

<trackbot> Closed action-423.

Caroline: there was one for annette_g about talking to people about workflows.

annette_g: I talked with a scientific workflows expert who thought it would need to be too customized to be worthwhile. I also started looking into the Common Workflow Language as a possible way to get ideas.

riccardoAlbertoni: There is also the Open Workflows, I'll send you info about that.

<AndreaPerego> The OPMW-PROV Ontology: https://‌www.opmw.org/‌model/‌OPMW/

close action-416

<trackbot> Closed action-416.

riccardoAlbertoni: action 416 can be closed

Caroline: anything else to bring up?

riccardoAlbertoni: Alejandra has an issue, setting up publication, I think we can close that.

close action-418

<trackbot> Closed action-418.

Caroline: anything else?

<riccardoAlbertoni> 427

riccardoAlbertoni: 427 we can close.

close action-426

<trackbot> Closed action-426.

close action-427

<trackbot> Closed action-427.

annette_g: oops, I closed 426

riccardoAlbertoni: that one can be closed too!

Caroline: anything else?

silence ensues

Caroline: Feel free to bring questions to me about chair changes, though I'm sure Peter will handle it well.

we'll miss you, Caroline!

<Ana> bye!

<AndreaPerego> Thanks, and bye!

Summary of resolutions

  1. accept last week's minutes
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