Meeting
Minutes
: 2003-02-06 : IRC meeting
Redaction:
Suellen Stringer-Hye, from IRC logs
Review and Publication: Bernard Vatant
Release: 2003-02-17.
Attendance
- Voting members: Bernard Vatant, Lars Marius Garshol,
Peter Flynn, Mary Nishikawa,
Suellen Stringer-Hye, Vivian Bliss, Thomas Bandholtz, Michael
Priestley
-
Prospective members: Eric Freese, Motomu
Naito
Excused: Jim Mason, Steve Pepper
Absent: Jim
Mason, Steve Pepper, Holger Rath, Eamonn Neylon, Patrick Durusau, Don
Smith
Invited Guest:
Geir Ove Grønmo
1. Agenda
Review of document
"A Gentle Introduction to Published Subjects", drafted by Steve
Pepper
http://www.ontopia.net/tmp/pubsubj-gentle-intro.htm
2. Discussion of
document
Section 2-1
Proposals:
- The word gravitation
should be changed to gravity
- Change line "Other
formalisms may use other names; for example, RDF uses the term "resource"
for what amounts to the same thing" to something like "Other
formalisms may use other names". Do not include direct reference
to RDF. Somehow express the fact that the topic is an "electronic
symbol" for the subject.
- Classes are designed
by singular nouns: change "famous scientists" to "famous
scientist"
Decisions:
- Change to gravity
(more usual)
- Come up with wording
via email.
- No decision made.
Much debate about natural language consistency versus programming
language consistency and whether, for precision, these two need to
match. Agreed to take discussion to lists.
Section 2-3
Proposals:
- "Subject
Identity" should be replaced by "Subject Identification"
in the statement "discovering which subject is represented by a
topic is the process of subject identification" and throughout
the document for consistency, since "establishing subject identity"
means "subject identification".
- Take off-line
two issues : "fragment identifiers" and "canonical
resource"
Decisions:
- Agreed
- Agreed
Section 2-3.1
Proposals:
- Change "network-retrievable
information resource" to "information resource" since
"resource" by definition means network retrievable.
Decisions:
- Much debate about
definitions of "resource" (SAM, W3C, ISO13250), which to use,
and stability of definition of in ISO 13250. Decision deferred until
next meeting. All TC members agreed to review SAM in the meantime.
Meeting ended at that
point after 1h30 of debate, many members having to quit.
Decision to continue the discussion on next meeting, and to provide feedback
to the document editor (Steve Pepper)
3. Next meeting
Next IRC meeting scheduled
February 21th, 22:00 UTC
Time chosen
to be more gentle to Japanese and Californian members
Agenda : continued discussion of "Gentle Introduction"
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