MIT CSAIL Decentralized Information Group

Face-to-Face Meeting

DRAFT Agenda

16 January 2007
32-G631
MIT Stata Center
Cambridge, MA USA

Logistics

Timing: 0930 - 1800

Coordinates: IRC: irc.freenode.net#DIG

Attendees Expected:

• Hal Abelson (traveling)
• Tim Berners-Lee
• Dan Connolly
• Chris Hanson
• Sandro Hawke
• Robert Hoffmann
• Harvey Jones
• Lalana Kagal (traveling)
• Ryan Lee (invited)
• Yosi Scharf (traveling)
• Gerry Sussman
• Ralph Swick
• Danny Weitzner
• Jim Hollenbach

Required Reading -- Background materials

• Tabulator
• End-to-End Semantic Accoountability Technical Proposal
• TAMI-Portia Workshop report

Schedule

09:30 - 09:45 Boot up

• agenda bashing
• scribing

09:45 - 10:00 DIG Overview and Meeting Goals (Tim and Danny)

This meeting is primarily about planning

• goal: research and project development brainstorming for 2007-2009
• scope: focus on Semantic Web infrastructure and applications other than PAW-related projects (see TAMI/PAW/E2ESA FTF agenda)

10:00 - 11:00 Project/Research Brainstorming

Initial topics:

• goals for future tabulator work
• connecting tabulator work with other activities at MIT
• distributed query/triple store research
• application areas to focus on: eGov, blogs and other user-generated content, ...

11:00 - 11:15 Break

11:15 - 12:30 Project/Research Brainstorming (continued)

12:30 - 13:00 Lunch

13:00 - 15:00 DIG Information Infrastructure

• DIG web space
• breadcrumbs
• policy-aware authentication services: OpenID, etc.

15:00 - 15:15 Break

15:15 - 15:45 Publishing opportunities

15:45 - 17:00 Funding all of the above

17:00 - 17:30 WrapUp

18:00 Adjourn

19:30 Dinner

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