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
		...

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