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1-2 March 2004 Meeting of the W3C Semantic Web Interest Group

Part of the W3C Technical Plenary, 1-5 March 2004, Cannes-Mandelieu, France

A meeting of the Semantic Web Interest Group (SW IG, formerly RDF IG) is scheduled for the 1st and 2nd March 2004, during the W3C Technical Plenary week.

This Interest Group is a continuation of the RDF Interest Group. See the Interest Group charter for more details on the group, including our mission, membership and discussion fora.

The Technical Plenary Week continues after the SW IG meeting (mon/tues 1st and 2nd of March), with a wednesday plenary session, followed by further meetings of W3C groups on thur/fri 4th and 5th March. Note that there is a Semantic Web Best Practices WG meeting planned for thursday and friday of TP week. Both meetings are likely to address the relationship between BPD WG and SW IG. In brief, the two groups have related goals, but differing membership models and work styles. The SW IG is designed to complement the work of W3C's Semantic Web Working Groups through providing a broader public forum for collaboration and discussion. The BPD WG meeting is intended primarily for WG members, although observers may be allowed (see meeting page for details).

Participants

We had 19 IG participants registered, plus 24/28 people who registered as observers. Observers are encouraged to participate in the meeting. See also: 25Feb agenda update which invites those who have not registered but want to attend to contact the chair.

Venue

Location: Riviera C room.

This seats approximately 35 active participants, with room for 35 more around edges of the room.

The language of the meeting is English. Remote participation via the #rdfig IRC channel is welcome, although the meeting will be focussed on the face-to-face proceedings.

Network mojo:

802.11 ESSID

riviera

DNS

18.29.0.200

Agenda

see also: 25Feb agenda update

SWIG Agenda - Monday Mar 1st

• 9.00-9.15 Welcome, logistics, assign scribe, agenda review (Dan Brickley, chair)
• 9.15-10.00 Introductory round (all participants)
• 10.00-10.30 W3C Semantic Web Activity update (status of groups etc) (Dan Brickley) (process diagrams, esp rec54-img.svg)
• 10.30-11.00 COFFEE BREAK
• 11.00-11.30 RDF Calendar and Scheduling Task Force (Libby Miller and Dan Connolly), background msg
• 11.30-11.50 RDF Datatyping: intro, lightning talk, discussion (Graham Klyne) background: Using datatype-aware inferences with RDF; Swish, including relevant test cases; Web Ontology Reasoning with Datatype Groups", 2003; Horrocks, I. and J. Pan
• 11.50-12.00 lightning talks:
  • Nokia SW server / URIQA API (Patrick Stickler), see also announcement.
  • Annotea: location independent references to resources (Jose Kahan, W3C)
• 12.00-12.15 Report from SWAD-Europe Storage/scalability workshop + discussion(Dave Beckett) - reporting on SWAD-Europe developer workshop on SemWeb storage/retrieval, 10min+5 discussion on performance and scalability strategies for RDF/SW DBs.
• 12.15-12.20 Bijan Parsia - update on WSDL in RDF
• 12.20-12.30 Discussion
• 12.30-13.30 LUNCH
• 13.30-14.30 RDF-in-XHTML and GRDDL: proposals and progress (w/ HTML WG): [1 hour] RDF-in-XHTML and GRDDL presentations Mark Birkbeck (x-port.net Ltd, representing HTML WG) on XHTML and RDF proposal. Dan Connolly (w3C) on GRDDL (draft SW CG Note)
• 14.30-15.00 COFFEE BREAK
• 15.00-15.45 RDF Query and Data Access - new WG and ongoing collaboration (EricP @@confirm)
• 15.45-17.00 ...[@@topics from list below or 5 min presentations (propose these to chair)]
• 17.00 ADJOURN.

SWIG Agenda - Tuesday March 2nd

• 9.00-9.10 logistics, agenda review, confirm/assign scribe
• 9.10-9.45 Working with the Best Practices and Deployment WG (w/ Guus Schreiber)
• 9.45-10.?? Bijan Parsia - update on SemWeb / WebServices
• 10.35-11.05 COFFEE BREAK
• 11.05-11.10 Corby Olivier - Conceptual Graph-based search engine
• 11.10-11.30 Modelling Context using Named Graphs (Jeremy Carroll, Chris Bizer) [~15-20 mins] contexts, quads, quintiples and named graphs, intro from Jeremy Carroll (HP) (re work w/ Chris Bizer, Patrick Stickler). 5-10 mins presentation + ??5-10 mins discussion re developer and application experience deploying such constructs with RDF/OWL.
  Background: RDF Triples in XML (Trix), Carroll, Jeremy J.; Stickler, Patrick. Other related work: Redland contexts; also article by Edd Dumbill).
• 12.15-12.30 Discussion
• 12.30-13.30 LUNCH
• 13.30-14.30 IG planning: charter, goals, collaboration 2004-6 (including collaboration machinery: email, wiki, weblogs, irc/IM,telecon/voip)
• 14.30-15.00 Where next for SW? Round the table - 1 min each
• 15.00-15.20 COFFEE BREAK
• 15.20-15.25 lightning talk: XOW (Danny Ayers) - W6 is a simple OWL vocabulary for expressing resource descriptions along axes based on the questions : who?, what?, why?, when?, where? and how?. See also demo and latest work in progress.
• 15.25-15.30 RDF and ImageDescription (Libby Miller) - focus on recent IRC-based collaboration, also exif-in-rdf, see ImageDescription in ESW wiki.
• 15.30-15.05 Jos De Roo Euler SWIG Implementation experience in Euler
• 15.10-15.20 Charles McCathieNevile - Thesaurus etc
• ...[more topics from list below or 5 min presentations (propose these to chair)]
• 16.50-17.00 Wrap up, conclusions.
• 17.00 ADJOURN.

Preparation: Drafts for Review

Suggested reading:

• SW IG charter
• SW Best Practices and Deployment WG charter
• Semantic Web Activity Statement

Reports and Outcomes

A few participants have written up the meeting in various levels of detail. Libby's points to the presentations. @@todo: summarise here@@. Articles from Kendall Clark, Libby Miller, Danny Ayers (@@more articles).

More photos: photo of meeting; coffee break discussions, ...