[DAIS-WG] Minutes from the OGF19 DAIS Session.
Mario Antonioletti
mario at epcc.ed.ac.uk
Thu Feb 1 10:22:57 CST 2007
Notes from DAIS session 31/01/2007
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Notes: Neil Chue Hong
Slides presented available from:
http://www.ogf.org/gf/event_schedule/?id=547
12 people attended
Mario Antonioletti presented: Status Update slides
Dave Pearson, the DAIS WG chair, apologises for his absence but he
was unable to travel.
An object based DAI-O realisation led by Thomas Soddemann has stalled
since GGF14.
Mario put up a slide showing the status of implementations and
interoperability testing.
Q: Is the test suite developed by the UoM targeted at
interoperability testing? Or another sort of testing?
A: Targeted at interoperability, based on interoperability
informational document.
Q: When you say interoperability, you remain in the same context, i.e.
DAIX only or DAIR only?
A: Yes, DAIX interop and DAIR interop are separate.
Mario asked for volunteers to help write specs
Mario noted that DAIS are going to look at a draft SAGA data access
document.
Isao Kojima presented: RDF(S) Querying Specification
Q (Andre): What's the reason for not supporting update operations?
A: We focus on query - there is no standard just now which supports
update but we keep this open for the future.
Q (Mario): Is anyone working on update languages?
A: There was, but the activity appears to have stopped now
Q (Mario): Is anyone interested in contributing?
Silence
Q (Mario): You started off with an example of what you did. How big is
your ontology, how many triples?
A: It's very small ontology using Jenas as the background server.
Q (Mario): SPARQL is a proposed recommendation, how long to full
recommendation status?
A: Currently a candidate recommendation, however recently rewinded
some of the functionality. There should not be too much impact from
changes though.
Miguel Esteban Gutierrez presented: Ontology Access
Q (Mario): Presumably you don't need to follow the hierarchy?
A: No, but you need to know the resource you want to get to.
Q (Mario): What is a repository, a graph, a collection of graphs?
A: It is a collection of triples
Q (Mario): Are you going to standardise the language across the
documents?
A: Yes, we have to! We plan to get together with the Tokyo team, this
may lead to renaming of some operations.
Malcolm Atkinson: Dave De Roure is the official OGF liaison with W3C
but we should think how we get some sort of
endorsement from W3C in this area.
Miguel: is giving a tutorial at the W3C conference at Banff.
Q (Andre): Who are the "customers"? and how are you involved with
them?
A (Mario): We worked closely with IBM and Oracle in the beginning -
we've not had enough buy-in from people who control database
products. OGSA-DAI will be using this interface and the OSU
BMI team also plan to implement it. It has been good as a
basis for moving forward into the RDF domain. However uptake
for DAIS has been slow.
Savas Parastatidis: entered the room late and promised to have a
implementation of DAI-RDF by tomorrow ;-)
Meeting closed.
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