– DRAFT –
DXWG Plenary

approve last meeting minutes

<PWinstanley> proposed: accept https://www.w3.org/2022/01/18-dxwg-minutes

+1

<plh> 0

<PWinstanley> +1

<riccardoAlbertoni> +1

<DaveBrowning> +1

<Nobu_OGURA> +1

RESOLUTION: accept https://www.w3.org/2022/01/18-dxwg-minutes

New charter

PWinstanley: Besides DCAT, I wonder whether we can get back on the call some people from CONNEG.

PWinstanley: plh, would you tell us about the charter?

plh: About DXWG, we are going to extend the charter.
… The question is whether we keep the deliverables as they are.
… We can update it wrt the schedule to have DCAT3 as REC, and leave the rest as it is.
… So, basically, we just change the end date of the charter and we keep deliverables and all the rest.

<plh> Current WG charter

plh: About the new patent policy, it may be worth switching to it, even before DCAT3 becomes a REC.
… There's only the hassle that people have to rejoin the group.

plh: So, which extension should we go for? It can be from 6 months to 2 years.

PWinstanley: A 2 years extension is probably safer.

plh: Fine. Any estimate on when we can get DCAT3 out?

riccardoAlbertoni: The plan would be to close the CR before the summer, but we are not sure we can make it, according to the W3C publication schedule.
… More likely end of 2022.

riccardoAlbertoni: The current plan is to have the last PWD in March.
… We actually have a lot of comments, and we have to understand how to deal with them.
… These are about guidance, editorial changes, requests for new features, and feedback on existing ones.

<plh> DCAT 3 Timeline: last PWD in March, start wide review end of March, publish CR in June, move to PR in Q4 2022, REC in Q1 2023

riccardoAlbertoni: The idea is to focus on versioning and dataset series, and leave all other features for next version.

plh: So, I will propose a 2 year extension, and I'll update the charter as discussed.

Nobu_OGURA: About the extension of the charter, is this for the current project, or for new activities?

plh: Actually, the charter does not prevent us to add new things, so it's just the extension of the WG.

TPAC 2022

plh: It's scheduled in Vancouver in September.
… By April, we are trying to understand whether it will be virtual or not.
… Assumption is hybrid mode - 50% in place, 50% remotely.
… There's also the problem of COVID rules changing continuously.
… One thing is that we are no longer going to have meetings lasting all day.

<plh> 12-16 September in Vancouver

DCAT3

riccardoAlbertoni: Report mainly about the schedule we just discussed.

PWinstanley: The question is whether we are reaching enough people for the review of the PWD.

riccardoAlbertoni: We have already quite a few people. So, the question is whether we should get in touch with other communities.

PWinstanley: plh, any W3C group?

plh: DID & Verifiable Credentials might be interested.
… I will anyway try to check internally.

<plh> Pierre-Antoine Champin

<plh> AndreaPerego: we're already in contact with the Spatial Data Working Group. They are using DCAT

<riccardoAlbertoni> https://github.com/w3c/dxwg/issues/1438

<riccardoAlbertoni> https://github.com/w3c/dxwg/issues/1437

riccardoAlbertoni: To conclude the summary, we just need to review the PRs in GitHub.
… The issues above are already linked to the relevant PRs.

AOB?

[meeting adjourned]