October 9, 2001

Attendees:
Mike
Harold
Richard
Dan
Frank
Ian
Deb
Peter
Sandro
Dan C.


Announcements:

Agenda:

minutes from October 2 - approved

any updates on submission or WebOnt

    No news ... if it is released as a note or whatnot it will be sent
    to the committee

report on EU/NSF meeting (Ian, Frank, Deb, et al)

       Frank: A workshop where the idea was to brief officials from EU
       / NSF on where the research should be focused

       Frank: The slide I sent around, result on working group on
       language and inference.  (other areas: infrastructure,
       knowledge acquisition and modeling, and ontology management).
       Main points of concern ... General people are concerned about
       the multiplicity of languages related to the Semantic web.  Too
       much talk about languages and not enough about modeling styles.
       Different reasoning services, work to be done in identifying
       them and deciding whats hard and easy. (Did I miss one?)
       Identity ... semantics of you or I, global unique ID's, etc.

       Frank: All these were seen as areas that would be fruitful for
       research.

       Last one seems most urgent ....

       Frank: workshop identified the multiplicity of languages as the
       most urgent.

       Mike: NSF looking into starting an activity in this area?

       Frank: The Lady from NSF was trying ...

       Stefan: without a set of tools that are openly and freely
       available, this might not happen.

       (was having trouble understanding for some reason, missed a
       good chunk of conversation here)

Model Theory (Peter, Pat)
     
datatypes and RDF Schema (Peter)

semantics in daml+oil.daml (Peter)

extra-query information (Richard)

Peter:  in DAML+OIL(3/01) a literal, the meaning of that is defined as
any one of the things that could have that as their value ... then its
up to interpretation.  In RDFS there is a single mapping between that
and whatever it is.

Should WebOnt become XMLOnt? ...

Because of meetings goin on next week, we will have a short telecon to
touch bases, talk about semantics, talk about WebOnt...