[Expertfinder-dev] minutes Telephone Conference 2006/10/05

[Axel Polleres]

Please find below the draft minutes from the Thursday meeting.
Thanks to Stijn for scribing again!

Axel


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ExpertFinder Telecon 05 October 2006


Participants (in order of appearance):
               Axel Polleres,
               Harold Boley,
               Stijn Heymans,
               John Breslin,
               Juan Luis Fuentes,
               Jie Li,
               Boanerges Aleman-Meza,
               Dan Brickley,
               Anna Zhadanova.

Next telecon: 19th of October, 17:00 (suggested every 2 weeks).
All Action items are due then, unless specified otherwise.


New/Open Action item summary:
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- ACTION - Lyndon will check whether Berlin can host wiki/webpage [pending]
- ACTION - Axel: Bring up topic of Wiki change & and new webpage again 
when we have the 3 planned new documents. [new]
- ACTION - Harold: post another use case. [continued]
- ACTION - Juan Luis+Axel: write document "Related 
Ontologies/Vocabularies"  until one but next telecon [new]
- ACTION - Anna: write document "Enabling technologies", initial 
structure by next telecon [new]
- ACTION - Stijn: write document "Coverage, Related projects and 
initiatives" initial structure by next telecon [new]
- ACTION - Stijn: clean up expertfinder webpage with respect to these 
new document structure [new]
- ACTION - Boanerges: presentation in next telecon on their initiative 
[new]
- ACTION - Dan - in the telecon after next one: presentation on open 
issues in FOAF. [new]


Detailed minutes:
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* Roll Call, next phone meeting, organisational issues.

	Introduction of new participants: Jie Li, Boanerges
	Aleman-Mez, and Dan Brickley


* went through action items from last time:

   - ACTION - Harold: Contact Dan Brickley to make password UNprotected. 
[solved]

        Dan Brickley solved this, see: 
http://lists.foaf-project.org/pipermail/expertfinder-dev-foaf-project.org/2006-October/000029.html

   - ACTION - Stijn: disambiguate between 2 items a bit more. [dropped]	

     Dropped since we will restructure the webpage.

   - ACTION: Lyndon will check whether Berlin can host wiki/webpage 
[pending]

   - ACTION - Axel: Bring up topic of Wiki change & and new webpage
        again when we have the 3 planned new documents.

   - ACTION - Harold: post another use case. [continued]
	

   - ACTION Lyndon: Berlin can add another use case, for forming project 
groups in a corporate setting. [Done]

     see: 
http://lists.foaf-project.org/pipermail/expertfinder-dev-foaf-project.org/2006-September/000021.html


   - ACTION: Axel put participants of this telecon on wiki. [done]

    see http://www.rdfweb.org/topic/ExpertFinder_2fMembers


   - ACTION: Axel, Anna: write first version by next telecon. [dropped]
   - ACTION: Stijn: first version of document by next telecon. [dropped

    Discussion going on on mailinglist, drop action items for the
    moment, discuss later in the meeting, there will be a new structure
    for the documents.


* Wiki page, news: We discussed the following thread
http://lists.foaf-project.org/private.cgi/expertfinder-dev-foaf-project.org/2006-October/thread.html

Restructuring of wiki:

1) A document "Related Ontologies/Vocabularies"
    ACTION - Juan Luis+Axel: write 1) until one but next telecon

2) A document "Enabling technologies"
    ACTION - Anna: write 2), initial structure by next telecon

3) A document "Related projects and initiatives", which also shows
coverage of the project (what area is the project in)
    ACTION - Stijn: write 3)

   ACTION - Stijn: clean up expertfinder webpage with respect to these
   new document structure [new]

   An example document how soemething in the spirit of 1) can look like
   is is already available for SIOC at:
     http://esw.w3.org/topic/SIOC/RelatedOntologies
   Our goal will be to be more on the focus of FOAF, and cover more
   vocabularies relevant in our context (vCard, iCal, RSS, DC, bibtex,
   etc)

   Georgia has something with the focus on bibliographic data:
   see:
     http://lsdis.cs.uga.edu/projects/semdis/swetodblp/

   ACTION - Boanerges: presentation in next telecon on their initiative,

   More discusison around foafmaker, dublin core, state on foaf

    ACTION - Dan - in the telecon after next one: presentation on open
    issues in FOAF.


* Use Cases: Skipped for this time.

* Presentation by Jie Li on FindXpRT (proposed by Harold)

Can be found here:
http://www.ruleml.org/usecases/foaf/JieLiMCSDefense.ppt

Questions posted on the mailinglist:
http://lists.foaf-project.org/pipermail/expertfinder-dev-foaf-project.org/2006-October/000032.html

Please continue this thread!

* Next steps, meetings, AOB

Axel will meet Lyndon from Berlin. Start some discussion based on the
presentations.