TPAC 2010

Draft agenda. Please volunteer to present on a topic, and suggest topics you want to hear about. Contact sandro@w3.org.

Facilities schedule.

Day 1 (Monday, 1 November) — eGovernment at W3C

Registration opens at 8:00, Terreaux hall, Level 0

Session 1 (09:00-10:30)

• History and Future of eGovernment at W3C (Sandro Hawke, Karen Myers)
  • Review of Improving Access to Government through Better Use of the Web slides
  • Begin list of topics for future meetings

Session 2 (11:00-12:00)

• Review current status of IG
• Introductions
  • Each person in the room will be asked to introduce themselves and talk for a couple minutes about their background and goals

Session 3 (14:00-15:30)

• Summary of eGov IG activities since Notes were published (Sandro Hawke)
• Reform of the EU Directive on Public Sector Information (Rigo Wenning)
• Discussion of possible policy changes, and the role of W3C

Session 4 (16:00-18:00)

• Options for a W3C eGov Education and Outreach Initiative (Daniel Dardailler)
• Federated Identity and eGovernment (Harry Halpin)
• Open Data, Vocabularies

=== Topic Scratchpad

• Social Media in Government (Presenter?)

• Mobile Access to Gov't Services (Presenter?)

• Open Government Data (but not focussing on Linked Data, yet)
  • Review Publishing Open Government Data
  • dcat, ckan, open knowledge foundation (?)
  • Connections to POI WG, Provenance XG
  • Next steps?

• Cloud Computing as path to scalable gov't services
• Open Source and Open Standards (confusion, patents)
• Interoperability and Interop Frameworks
• Vocabularies
• Open Data
• Identity
• eGov Outreach
• eGov Initiative at W3C

Other Possible Topics

• Requirements and ideas for a useful W3C eGov Website (we can do better than this and this)

Day 2 (Tuesday, 2 November) — Government Linked Data

Registration opens at 8:00, Terreaux hall, Level 0

Session 1 (08:30-10:30)

• Planning for a Government Linked Data Working Group (Sandro Hawke)
• Introductions (around the room)
• data.gov.uk (Jeni Tennison)
• LOD Initiatives in Spain (Martin Alvarez)

Session 2 (11:00-12:00)

• Datalift project in France (Fabien Gandon)
• Linked Environment Data in Germany (Thomas Bandholtz)

Session 3 (14:00-15:30)

Note that the W3C Advisory Committee Meeting starts at 13:00, and runs through the afternoon.

• Charter Details
  • Who Needs to Be Involved? (Identify Stakeholders)
  • Consider Possible Work Items

Session 4 (16:00-18:00)

• Vocabulary Design Methodology
  • If you've been involved in an RDF vocabulary design effort, please be prepared to discuss what worked, what didn't work, and how you think this WG should approach it
• Vocabulary Details
  • See Possible Vocabulary Work Items

• more TBD