IRC log of webont on 2002-04-09

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syntax discussion...
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07:50:04 [JosD]
pfps: if we keep RDF/XML syntax be careful not to fall inthe RDF pitfall
07:52:41 [JosD]
jimH: don't confuse syntactical and semantical pieces of the language
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jeremy: decided yesterday that the base syntax is the graph syntax, *base* syntax (not presentation)
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frankvh: RDFCore will tell us how to do
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Path: a way of conveying a graph over the wire, that's all
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massimo: RDF/XML transport syntax
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jeremy: presentation syntax is out of order in this mornings's discussion
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(peter proposed) decisions: syntax - RDF graph; expressive power - D + O
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peter continues his talk ...
08:00:14 [JosD]
slide http://www-db-out.bell-labs.com/user/pfps/talks/webont-f2f2-approaches/slide7-0.html
08:01:03 [JosD]
frankvh: proposes the term (Pat corrects) --> serialization syntax
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frankvh also proposes ``presentation'' syntax, normative? Jeremy doesn't care-- StevenB does care
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... the issue is roundtrip
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PatH: the term roundtrip has 2 meanings (interrupted by JimH)
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JimH: we will return to this point today (after the coffee break)
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Peter continues again... RDF compatibility\
08:05:18 [JosD]
slide http://www-db-out.bell-labs.com/user/pfps/talks/webont-f2f2-approaches/slide8-0.html
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(further proposed decisions) RDF MT; Inferences (what follows from what)
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Jeremy: entailment to clarify the meaning
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jonathanB: concerned about violation of intuitions...
08:16:42 [JosD]
Peter & Pat believe there is a way to go...
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there is a diagonal line asserted / darh
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i.e. John loves Mary / D + O syntax
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i.e. constrain interptretaions / mentions like D + O syntax
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PatH: RDF is a vocabulary defining toolkit
08:24:21 [JosD]
frankvh: 2 things: *language* conformance level 0 versus vocabulary defining toolkit
08:26:07 [JosD]
Ian: the whole trouble is that it is doing these 2 things
08:27:23 [JosD]
JimH is again interrupting the discussion
08:28:15 [JosD]
JimH takes ACTION (for CG) : relationship with RDFS has to become very clear
08:29:06 [JosD]
Jimh: RDF(S) has to mean the same thing...
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Guus: identify the part of RDFS that may act as conformance level 0
08:30:57 [JosD]
PatH: yes we can (it's not vocabulary, but certain combination patterns (if I understood that well???))
08:32:12 [JosD]
PatH: maybe, maybe (Peter: be lord and master of the universe.......)
08:32:59 [JosD]
Peter continues... how to make the distinction (betweeen asserted and unasserted)
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one syntactical way: XML -- RDF document (asserted ) / XML Schema -- OWL document (unasserted)
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is it nice???
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all the definition stuff goes in the unasserted side
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they are dard for RDF but they have a meaning
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Jeremy wonders about his proposal (the sollipsitic one)
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Jeremy: you have to *assert* the existence of the class
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Peter: ontologies *refer* to other ontologies, or you merge them
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Guus: conclusions: issue is RDFS clarification
08:46:38 [JosD]
2. the proposed dark triple proposal is *not* affecting RDF core (question)
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PatH: 1. WebOnt definitely needs dark triples
08:49:42 [JosD]
PatH 2. several proposals are possible, some are affecting RDFCore
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e.g. Jonathan's proposal recursive rdf:RDF elements to represent contexts
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Guus: there is an urgent timing issue involved!!!
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Jeremy is showing what current parsers do...
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Guus: propose synthesis discussion
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RDFCore provides us a serialization syntax
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let's use RDF/XML
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(the term used by RDFCore)
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... and use that to serialize OWL level1 and OWL level 2
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RDFCore: RDF serialization syntax -> RDF graph
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WebOnt requirements -- 2 issues 1) LIST 2) DARK TRIPLES
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JimH: proposed action: PeterPS + FrankVH + JeremyC write down a paragraph for RDFCore w.r.t. these issues
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(will happen today)
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JimH: if we have a preference, we should say that
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other side if Guus's picture: OWL presentation syntax
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issues: 1) readablility 2) level of roundtripping (same presentation syntax/ other PS) 3) preferred one (normative?)
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(discuss again the trick to keep a pointer to the original RDF/XML document)
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Jeremy: roudtripping argument is spurious, issue is keeping the original presentation syntax
09:54:51 [JosD]
jb: in general rt in not solvable, so keep original...
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Enrico: good requirement would be to give back a piece which is semantically equivalent
10:02:48 [JosD]
StephenB: you can't have a requirement of rt (e.g. for something that came in as serialization syntax)
10:04:19 [JosD]
frankvh: giving example of Protege tool (presentation syntax), but it doesn't work across tools...
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JimH: all of us are interoperating if we don't have a strong presentation syntax
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... dozens of different ways to do this
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Ora: what are the characteristics we are interested in to be preserved?
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FrankVH is really concerned about usability
10:10:40 [JosD]
Guus: group definitions + editable in something like emacs
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Enrico: requrement is slightly more readable syntax
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MikeD: worry is wether tools should export both
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StephenB: not mandate, keep as local thing
10:13:41 [JosD]
Jeremy remarks that there is no common agreed format for word processors
10:15:15 [JosD]
JimH: what GUIDE can do is work out this stuff in N3, UML etc
10:16:20 [JosD]
... don't give it the level the AC (advisory commitee) has to approved
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Ora: write down an ontology for the description of the things to be preserved
10:21:47 [JosD]
Guus: 2 forms: readable text form (e.g. N3) and graphical form (e.g. UML)
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Enrico: user want 1 syntax which is easy to understand
10:24:40 [JosD]
MikeD: finds the graph notation very useful (even to explain derivations)
10:28:00 [JosD]
JimH: being able to interoperate is crucial but it's fine to have several ps's in the nn appendices
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(ps == presentation syntax; nn == non normative)
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jb: nn because of all syntactical guarantees; not part of the formal language definition
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StephenB: explains what it means to be NN using MathML example
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Massimo: explains further along the lines of the W3C process
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... it is completely optional, it *might* become a de facto practice
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discussing entailment testcase :Peter a :Student, :Employee . |= :Peter a [ owl:intersectionOf ( :Student :Employee ) ] .
11:59:39 [jhendler]
question raised: does a user (of OWL) need to know this exists?
12:00:46 [JosD]
Jeremy would have to add [ owl:intersectionOf ( :Student :Employee ) ] . at LHS
12:00:56 [jhendler]
that is - for dark triples would the rdf/xml need to include dark - answer, yes.
12:01:58 [jhendler]
if you do it via "solipsistic" logic, the user doesn't need to know
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however, there may be other problems.
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12:23:10 [JosD]
strawpoll: 12 people support dark triple proposal; 3 support solipsistic proposal; 6 abstain
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finding agreement on the proposed paragraphs...
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1 paragraph is request; other paragraphs are suggestions
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volunteers from this group to join conversation with RDFCore: Jeremy, Pat, Peter, Jos, Massimo
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+ Jonathan (Borden)
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unanimous agreement to send message to RDFCore
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Action to the chairs Jim and Guus to report this issue to the SWCG
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======= Ora and "Thoughts about the Guide"
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(this is a summary of their break-out session)
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======= discussing (again) D+O Appendix: Index of all language elements
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http://www.cs.umd.edu/~hendler/2002/DAML-OWL.html
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http://www.cs.umd.edu/~hendler/2002/DAML-OWL.txt
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? * cardinality
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actually should be ? * cardinality
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oops 1/2 * cardinality
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decided taking out all the ...Q things
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R == rdf(s) 1 == level 1 2 == level 2
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DatatypeProperty, DatatypeRestriction, Datatype value are in 1
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Disjoint is in 1
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disjointWith is X (i.e. gone)
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arrow is, it goes to the issue list, cardinality, Class, equivalentTo
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hasClass, hasValue level 1
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imports is an X
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oops, imports is an -> (issue list)
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intersectionOf, inverseOf also issues
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ObjectClass, ObjctProperty, ObjectRestriction are in 1 (however there is the issue Datatype disjoint from Class)
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oneOf, onProperty, Ontology are in 1
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Property, range, subClassOf, subPropertyOf fall in R(DF)
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UnambiguousProperty (new proposed name UniqueIdentifyingProperty) level 1
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UniqueProperty (new proposed name SinglevaluedProperty) level 1
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version level 1
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---------------------------------------time for a break....
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remarkable thing: UnionOf is the only level 2
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let's talk about that during the coffee break (10 min)
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rdf issue list http://www.w3.org/2000/03/rdf-tracking/
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similar Issues list in DAML:
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-> 1/2 cardinality
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-> R Class
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-> ? equivalentTo
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-> 1 imports
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-> * intersectionOf
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-> * inverseOf
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-> 2 unionOf
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-> 1 UniqueProperty
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Where does Defined Class go?
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Where do complementOf, UnionOf, etc. go?
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Guus: propose to move all constructs using unnamed classes to go to level 2
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PatH: existential quantifiers are already in RDF
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Guus: make (some) people familiar with notion of implicit class names
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PatH: not understanding the distinction
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Jeremy drawing a graph of the example :John a _:1 . _:1 a rdfs:Class; owl:intersectionOf ( :Student :Employee ) .
14:00:05 [JosD]
JimH: group seems to be in favor of 1/2, but go back to drawing board to draw the borderline
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Jeremy: keep 1/2 and ask LANG new proposal ==> 12 people
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... versus 1 language ==> 6 people
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ACTION: revisit new level 1/2 proposal by MikeD, EnricoM, ZivH, RaphaelV, IanH and FrankVH
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(Jim's pinguin example...)
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RESOLUTIONS: The meaning of an OWL document is conveyed in the RDF graph ==> ALL in favour, NO opposed
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RESOLUTION: All RDF/XML documents that are equivalent under the RDF REC are equivalent OWL exchange documents ==> 14 in favor -- 3 opposed
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RESOLUTION: The exchange language for OWL is RDF/XML ==> 16 in favour
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RESOLUTION: We intend to produce non-normative presentation syntaxes and their mapping to the exchange syntax ==> 16 in favour -- 1 opposed
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14:48:39 [DeborahMc]
good morning
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RESOLUTION: The preference of the WG is to produce at least one XML and one frame presentation syntax ==> 11 in favour -- 2 opposed
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logs are at http://ilrt.org/discovery/chatlogs/webont/2002-04-09.html
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the last part is about the resolutions
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======= how to move forward till next f2f
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I just joined the telecon. Sorry I'm late.
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FrankVH gives some explanation about these resolutions
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JimH: a set of issues will be collected, then ask the group, then go to REAL issue list
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JimH: issue drive process -- ACTION chairs + MikeS
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DebMG will join the "revisit new level 1/2 proposal" group
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discussion about "what should be preserved?"
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e.g. order, grouping, etc. (within and between presentation syntaxes)
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NickG: matter of toolbuilders + JimH: to allow some metadata format to describe that
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discussion about the proposed schedule: 5 in favor -- 0 abstain
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Meeting is officially ended w/respect to rsolutions - conversation continures
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