IRC log of swbp on 2004-08-04

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Meeting: SWBPD RDF-in-HTML Task Force
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SW_BPD(xhtml)9:00AM has now started
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+Ralph
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+ +1.441.962.aaaa
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about to call in
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zakim, aaaa is Nick_Gibbins
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+Nick_Gibbins; got it
13:00:10 [danbri]
zakim, dial danbri-home
13:00:10 [Zakim]
ok, danbri; the call is being made
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+Ben_Adida
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+Danbri
13:04:29 [danbri]
1997-era metadata syntax discussion, http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue12/metadata/
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Chair: Ben Adida
13:04:45 [danbri]
pre-history re the HTML WG revisions to <link>, <meta>
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Agenda: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-archive/2004Aug/att-0000/2004-08-04-agenda.html__charset_ISO-8859-1
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+David_Wood
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+David_Wood|Tom_Adams
13:06:38 [Ralph]
zakim, David_Wood|Tom_Adams is Tom_Adams
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sorry, Ralph, I do not recognize a party named 'David_Wood|Tom_Adams'
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ben: goal for meeting is common direction...
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...not bite off too much
13:07:07 [Ralph]
zakim, David_WoodTom_Adams is Tom_Adams
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+Tom_Adams; got it
13:07:12 [danbri]
...seems xhtml wg been doing fair bit of work
13:07:26 [danbri]
...if in a couple weeks we conclude 'lets default to their recommendations', that could be a fine outcome if all agree
13:07:34 [danbri]
...hope we can get collab w/ html wg
13:08:09 [danbri_scribe]
ralph: i think its important that we put some effort into doing some kind of formal review of the HTML July22 draft
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...and give a formal response from BP WG of some kind
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ralph: they deserve, fro mthe sw community, some feedback on that
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david(?): what form should feedback take
13:09:24 [danbri_scribe]
(sorry not recognising all voices yet)
13:09:36 [danbri_scribe]
ralph: see http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/WD-xhtml2-20040722/ ...anybody welcome to send individual comments
13:10:02 [danbri_scribe]
....but i think the comments from this wg will carry more weight if they come as a msg 'from the group' (chair(s) and/or TF leader)
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...if it carried wg consensus
13:10:16 [danbri_scribe]
...we're still working out exactly how BP TFs operate
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...my viewpoint is that this group here, and future telecons, will propose a response to our wg, ...
13:10:56 [danbri_scribe]
...and the wg will review it quicklyish and then we'll send it to the HTML WG as our WG's response
13:11:06 [danbri_scribe]
?: sounds good
13:11:13 [danbri_scribe]
ralph: similar process to notes
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ben: addressed 1 item on agenda, re dependencies
13:11:38 [Ralph]
rrsagent, please make logs world-visible
13:12:20 [danbri_scribe]
ralph: we should note that we expect Ben to coord a review
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...but actions are on individuals to get reviews done
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q+ to ask timescale for reviews
13:12:49 [danbri_scribe]
ben: re requirements
13:13:55 [Ralph]
DamBri: Dublin Core has had requirements; posted an old link from 1997
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... DC has been frustrated with the old META restrictions
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... want, e.g. to be able to supply phone numbers for authors
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... RDF WG proposed rel="meta", only recently has that been put into an HTML spec
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ben: one of the big issues that came up when discussing w/ Mark..
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...was whether xhtml should allow for full expression of rdf
13:15:22 [Ralph]
Ralph has changed the topic to: XHTML Task Force meeting: 4 Aug 1300 UTC; Zakim conf code SWBP
13:15:33 [danbri_scribe]
ben: originally mark thought it should do an rdf-lite
13:16:10 [Ralph]
DanBri: had that discussion with Mark; he now believes it to be a complete RDF syntax
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... expect that it can express all of RDF
13:16:31 [danbri_scribe]
danbri: I believe the current syntax is a complete rdf syntax
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ralph: that's an assertion that we should test
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...jjc at march f2f offered to take a look at it
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danbri: our role might be to help QA the HTML WG's work
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ralph: if it is an rdf lite, that could be fine too
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...so long as we know
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...somebody could take an action to ping jeremy
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action: ralph to contact jjc regarding investigate of expressiveness (full or partial) of HTML WG's proposal
13:19:22 [danbri_scribe]
nick: Some time back I did a review of the earlier proposal
13:19:33 [danbri_scribe]
(nick, could you find an url?)
13:19:33 [nmg]
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-swbp-wg/2004JanMar/0180.html
13:19:36 [danbri_scribe]
thanks
13:20:07 [Ralph]
DanBri: have XML Literals been looked at?
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NickG: I think XML Literals are now in
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... anonymous nodes and node IDs are also a question
13:22:08 [danbri_scribe]
danbri: the examples in the spec are a bit 98-ish in that they assume everything has a uri
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[discussion of older meta tag use cases]
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ben: issue (esp Creative Commons ish) of link-level metadata
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...clickable links
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danbri: this is the powerful thing about the new design
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ack danbri
13:24:42 [Zakim]
danbri_scribe, you wanted to ask timescale for reviews
13:25:38 [dom]
I'm available now
13:25:44 [Ralph]
Ben: 2 weeks?
13:25:44 [dom]
should/may I join?
13:25:50 [Ralph]
yes, Dom, please join if you can
13:25:53 [danbri_scribe]
resolved: internal 2 week target for reviews of http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/WD-xhtml2-20040722/
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q?
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+Dom
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ack ralph
13:27:01 [Zakim]
Ralph, you wanted to mention an existing requirements document
13:27:27 [Ralph]
from May 2003:
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ralph: wanted to point out from may 2003...
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the CG-sponsored Task Force produced a requirements document in May 2003
13:27:38 [danbri_scribe]
dom, agenda: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-archive/2004Aug/att-0000/2004-08-04-agenda.html__charset_ISO-8859-1
13:27:41 [dom]
http://www.w3.org/2003/03/rdf-in-xml.html
13:27:45 [Ralph]
http://www.w3.org/2003/03/rdf-in-xml.html
13:27:58 [danbri_scribe]
...a start at collecting requirements.
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q+ to speak in favour of requirement listing
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...we should go back to the may 2003 doc, polish, see if we still agree.
13:28:38 [danbri_scribe]
ben: sounds good
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action: ben to review http://www.w3.org/2003/03/rdf-in-xml.html
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ralph: eg. it doesn't mention creative commons
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danbri: I could articulate a content-filtering use case
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q+ to ask whether we'd want the html wg to make a normative reference to rdf
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ralph: lets not slow down the good progress we're seeing in html world by spending too long on our own requirements
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ben: two approaches we're exploring
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GRDDL, transformation based approach, typically xslt, to get rdf/xml
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dom: currently we only support rdf/xml
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(GRDDL (rhymes with Riddle))
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ben: looks like a GRDDL transform could be built for the new XHTML meta spec
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...might help in backwards compatibility world
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dom: not quite sure what u mean backwards compatibility
13:32:43 [danbri_scribe]
ben: we could build a GRDDL and deploy the same markup in XHTML 1
13:32:47 [Ralph]
[re: "we should go back to the may 2003 document" -- my emphasis there was that we shouldn't start from scratch on requirements as there's an existing document. I hope we don't spend a lot of time on requirements, though I recognize that future consensus on proposed solutions could depend on having previously had a consensus on requirements]
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dom: you'd lose conformance with XHTML 1
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danbri: couldn't nest links, etc
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ben: OK
13:33:29 [danbri_scribe]
ben: a bunch of other approaches in the wild...
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...should we look at these?
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...specifically, the 'lower-cased s semantic web' approach
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...eg rel attribute of <a> tags to add types to a link
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...doing this in a way that seems incompatible with the XHTML 2 approach
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...Creative Commons doing something
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...also suggestsions re FOAF
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ben: I have some pointers
13:34:44 [benadida]
http://tantek.com/presentations/2004etech/realworldsemanticspres.html
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(this is xfn etc...)
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(tantek former html wg member)
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ben: all this rdf/owl stuff complicated, lets get there incrementally
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(is the general line taken, )
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ralph: does it do something extra?
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ben: ?something re vocabulary
13:36:37 [danbri_scribe]
...main difference, is that it uses the rel attribute in a way that xhtml2 doesn't expect
13:36:56 [Ralph]
DanBri: is this the same idiom used in XFN?
13:37:12 [Ralph]
... e.g. a space-separated list of tokens in the rel, tied to something in the profile?
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... a decorational link between documents
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... can be quite hairy when folded into RDF
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dom: XFN can be GRDDL'd
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...should we bridge the two worlds w/ GRDDL
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dom: not sure there's a problem w/ the XHTML 2.0 meta and this use of 'rel'
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ben: one of the discussions i had w/ Steven Pemberton and Mark Birbeck... was whether it could be applied to <a>
13:39:18 [benadida]
I see the queue, apologies!
13:39:21 [danbri_scribe]
David: regardless of utility of adding complexity to xhtml, there will be user communities who'll want simpler authoring
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...some user groups will want gt expressivity, others will want simple stuff
13:39:56 [Zakim]
danbri_scribe, you wanted to speak in favour of requirement listing and to ask whether we'd want the html wg to make a normative reference to rdf
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ack danbri
13:41:02 [Ralph]
DanBri: the way the current XHTML spec is written it doesn't expressly mention RDF
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... if it turns out that they have not actually covered RDF precisely, then unless they make a normative reference to RDF they still haven't done anything incorrect
13:42:29 [Ralph]
... give them help in connecting their work to RDF would help
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... e.g. concerns about bloat from W3C
13:43:00 [danbri_scribe]
ralph: I certainly think we'll want them to make a normative reference to RDF and/or OWL
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...that'll be one of the subtle bits of coordination to work on
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...whether they're not making such big comments about rdf, so as to not to stir up dissent
13:43:29 [benadida]
q?
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...part of our review will help do that
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...if we determine that either the section 19, section 20 ...
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...does cover 80/90/100% of RDF, and report that to them, it ought to be a no-brainer for them
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...and it'd help both them and us
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...showing explicit semantic connection
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-David_Wood
13:45:38 [danbri_scribe]
...if we decide they've covered most or all of RDF, they ought to be willing to mention RDF
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danbri: a recent msg from Mark suggested it might have been overly cautious
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ralph: they need some msg from us reassuring whether it is a good approach or not
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...we still owe them that
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...until then, it is reasonable for them to be reluctant to make a normative ref
13:47:02 [Ralph]
DanBri: not sure how HTML WG does testing and QA
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13:47:32 [Ralph]
... RDF Core WG did detailed testing the second time around
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... e.g. ntriples
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ralph: if you're suggesting that the rdfcore test cases, in part or whole, could be used to test this encoding... thats a good idea
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...help authoritatively determine the actual coverage of the new syntax
13:48:53 [Ralph]
DanBri: I think it would help to write test cases in ntriples
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... second part -- reusing RDF Core test cases -- would require writing some code
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... Max Froumentin is interested in writing a parser for the XHTML MIM proposal
13:49:51 [dom]
I'm muted!
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13:50:39 [Ralph]
Dom: Mark B said he was working on a translator to N3
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action: danbri ask Mark whether he has an xslt parser for the new notation
13:51:09 [Zakim]
Ralph, you wanted to say something about priorities
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SW_BPD(xhtml)9:00AM has been moved to #html
13:51:42 [danbri_scribe]
ralph: there are other proposals, eg. the XFN-ish stuff
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...i'm worried about the modest resources this TF has
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...and hence prioritisation
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...and ever closing window of opportunity
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...to respond to the html wg
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...they've probably had discussions to look at whether their approach fits with other uses of rel= attribute
13:53:03 [danbri_scribe]
...they're reaching out to us, we should give v high priority to that question
13:53:38 [danbri_scribe]
...if we find some probelm with it, we could evaluate xfn etc., it sounds like the major selling point of xfn is its surface simplicity
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q+ to propose a strawman: our focus should be XHTML meta module + GRDDL for anything left over
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ben: i'd support that
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...focus on 'big S' Semantic Web.
13:55:28 [RRSAgent]
sees 3 open action items:
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ACTION: ralph to contact jjc regarding investigate of expressiveness (full or partial) of HTML WG's proposal [1]
13:55:28 [RRSAgent]
recorded in http://www.w3.org/2004/08/04-swbp-irc#T13-19-11
13:55:28 [RRSAgent]
ACTION: ben to review http://www.w3.org/2003/03/rdf-in-xml.html [2]
13:55:28 [RRSAgent]
recorded in http://www.w3.org/2004/08/04-swbp-irc#T13-28-54
13:55:28 [RRSAgent]
ACTION: danbri ask Mark whether he has an xslt parser for the new notation [3]
13:55:28 [RRSAgent]
recorded in http://www.w3.org/2004/08/04-swbp-irc#T13-50-52
13:55:29 [danbri_scribe]
q- #time
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q-
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ben: so focus, we all take a look at this proposal and reconvene
13:56:56 [danbri_scribe]
ralph, could we draft a template for a response from ben?
13:57:24 [danbri_scribe]
...it might help us to focus our effort if there was a draft in progress
13:57:32 [danbri_scribe]
ben: i can do that if i have some guidance from you
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action: ben draft a template response
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ralph: I thought there was a communication disconnect w/ Mark and Mimasa...
13:59:27 [danbri_scribe]
...we should repair that, and formally state that public-rdf-in-xhtml-tf be our mailing list home
13:59:54 [Ralph]
proposed: public-rdf-in-xhtml-tf be the mailing list for this Task Force
14:00:04 [danbri_scribe]
RESOLVED: to use public-rdf-in-xhtml-tf as primary forum for discussion of this TF
14:01:12 [Ralph]
DanBri: the XHTML proposal allows these statements to be put pretty much anywhere
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... I'd like to see if this can be combined with imagemap; e.g. to make RDF statements about regions of an image
14:01:42 [Ralph]
Tom: Jim Hendler's group has done some relevant work
14:01:56 [Ralph]
another telecon?
14:02:35 [danbri_scribe]
next telecon: thinking 2 weeks ish
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+1
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+1
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rrsagent, pointer?
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See http://www.w3.org/2004/08/04-swbp-irc#T14-03-03
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zakim, list attendees
14:04:33 [Zakim]
sorry, Ralph, I don't know what conference this is
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actions?
14:05:12 [RRSAgent]
sees 4 open action items:
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ACTION: ralph to contact jjc regarding investigate of expressiveness (full or partial) of HTML WG's proposal [1]
14:05:12 [RRSAgent]
recorded in http://www.w3.org/2004/08/04-swbp-irc#T13-19-11
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ACTION: ben to review http://www.w3.org/2003/03/rdf-in-xml.html [2]
14:05:12 [RRSAgent]
recorded in http://www.w3.org/2004/08/04-swbp-irc#T13-28-54
14:05:12 [RRSAgent]
ACTION: danbri ask Mark whether he has an xslt parser for the new notation [3]
14:05:12 [RRSAgent]
recorded in http://www.w3.org/2004/08/04-swbp-irc#T13-50-52
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ACTION: ben draft a template response [4]
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recorded in http://www.w3.org/2004/08/04-swbp-irc#T13-58-10
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[RRSAgent will write the actions to the log when it is dismissed]
14:06:08 [danbri_scribe]
13:16:48 [danbri_scribe]
14:06:08 [danbri_scribe]
...jjc at march f2f offered to take a look at it
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...is the last thing I see written to http://www.w3.org/2004/08/04-swbp-irc
14:07:01 [Ralph]
there's more there, waiting to commit to CVS
14:07:32 [Ralph]
[if you're done noting things for the record, then we can dismiss RRSAgent]
14:08:07 [danbri_scribe]
done, yup.
14:08:21 [Ralph]
rrsagent, bye
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I see 4 open action items:
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ACTION: ralph to contact jjc regarding investigate of expressiveness (full or partial) of HTML WG's proposal [1]
14:08:21 [RRSAgent]
recorded in http://www.w3.org/2004/08/04-swbp-irc#T13-19-11
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ACTION: ben to review http://www.w3.org/2003/03/rdf-in-xml.html [2]
14:08:21 [RRSAgent]
recorded in http://www.w3.org/2004/08/04-swbp-irc#T13-28-54
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ACTION: danbri ask Mark whether he has an xslt parser for the new notation [3]
14:08:21 [RRSAgent]
recorded in http://www.w3.org/2004/08/04-swbp-irc#T13-50-52
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ACTION: ben draft a template response [4]
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recorded in http://www.w3.org/2004/08/04-swbp-irc#T13-58-10