Notes
Outline
DAML PI Meeting

Status Briefing
Two distinct roles in project
Foundations:
Logic/KR     +     Web     +     Software systems
Building tools for  information management
especially document and collaboration processes
            also W3C co-PI/collaborator
Most significant accomplishments to date
Jump start
DAML-O (later DAML+OIL, possibly OWL)
continued DAML-JC and WebOnt involvement
Haystack and other doc/collaboration tools
                 -- actual award date --
Agent-based critique of DAML-S (Bryson and Stein)
Planned activity in 2002
Contributions to dialog
KR meets W3
the great layering debate
distributed semantics
social embedding
syntax, semantics, and digital signature
continued DAML-JC and WebOnt roles
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Planned activity in 2002, cont.
Document process tools
What is the most recent report on road traffic in Afghanistan?
How often have we revised our estimates on fuel supplies in the Northeast region?
How many reports are based on the raw data given in document ID xxx?
Which documents have been entered into the Operational Net Assessment database?
Versioning (CVS), collaboration (Wiki), annotation
Technical deliveries in 2002
Select an ontology describing document life cycle (based on existing DAML ontologies or military intelligence practices)
Map versioning (CVS repository) data to this ontology.
Develop a tool to extract data from a CVS repository into a DAML data structure.
[Optional] Full text scan CVS document text to further categorize the documents. (Links to other documents, noting people names, other heuristics)
Develop a viewer for the DAML data (perhaps in collaboration with other DAML groups).
Technical deliveries in 2002, cont.
Develop applications for the DAML data
Human Intelligence Evaluation
Version histories of documents
Chains of document references
Software Engineering Metric generation
who has most frequent check-ins?
who has most new lines of code?
what files are the most checked in?
Collaborative Workspace (wiki) monitoring
who is discussing a topic
what pages generate the most links and follow-ups
Technical deliveries in 2002, cont.
Document process tools
CVS, Wiki, Haystack, Ontologies
Deploy at Olin, in collaboration with W3C, on Web
Distributed semantics/socially grounded meaning
Metrics
Eating our own dogfood:
deploy at Olin
use in collaboration with W3C
+ work w/integrator
Usability
Adoption (within group, % Olin, # users on web)
Head to head competition with commercial systems
Effectiveness
Wiki stats
Possible user study
Logic
Peer review, efficacy for grounding actual systems