IRC log of dig on 2007-04-30

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topic is: MIT Decentralized Information Group http://dig.csail.mit.edu/ (12 Feb meeting cancelled)
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Users on #dig: DIGlogger RalphS eikeon sandro aztennenbaum das05r
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18:29:12 [RalphS]
zakim, this is dig
18:29:13 [Zakim]
ok, RalphS; that matches DIG_weekly()2:30PM
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+MIT531
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+Danny
18:31:11 [RalphS]
zakim, MIT531 has Ralph
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+Ralph; got it
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18:32:22 [djweitzner]
anyone else on this channel planning on attending DIG?
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Sandro?
18:33:14 [RalphS]
zakim, mit531 also has Lalana
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+Lalana; got it
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zakim, mit531 also has Sandro
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+Sandro; got it
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zakim, mit531 also has Harvey
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+Harvey; got it
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Agenda: https://lists.csail.mit.edu/mailman/private/diggers/2007-April/001187.html
18:35:29 [RalphS]
Meeting: DIG Weekly
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1. Welcome back to DIG meetings
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2. DIG infrastructure: SWADA, etc.
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3. Update on summer UROPs
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4. Harvey Jones' final project talk
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Policy Aware Documents[1]
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24 May 2007
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11am-12:30pm
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32-D451 (note alternate location)
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5. other topics
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6. Next meeting: suggest 14 May 2007
18:36:35 [RalphS]
Topic: Welcome back
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DJW: plan to meet at this time at least through the summer
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Topic: DIG infrastructure
18:37:06 [RalphS]
DJW: thanks, Ryan, for fixing blog service yet again
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... plan to move breadcrumbs to T!G services
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Sandro: I'm a bit nervous about long-term persistence guarantees
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... orthogonal to T!G move, however
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DJW: we have to deal with persistence either place, try to get CSAIL to deal with it
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Sandro: would be great to be hosted by someone who will take care of persistence for us
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DJW: know of anything better at the moment?
18:39:02 [RalphS]
Sandro: not really
18:39:53 [RalphS]
DJW: Ryan will be helping create infrastructure for webscience.org, will start as a clone of DIG infrastructure
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... expect these two sites to evolve together
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... Ryan will work on openid support for webscience.org and it should be able to be propagated to dig.csail.mit.edu
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... webscience.org will be moving from Southampton to CSAIL
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18:42:14 [RalphS]
... I'm hoping we'll eventually have some policy-aware access control on both sites
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Ralph: Ryan suggested swada would have no useful services after moving breadcrumbs. Anyone know anything different?
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Sandro: no
18:44:06 [RalphS]
Danny: does esw wiki still run there?
18:44:09 [RalphS]
Sandro: no
18:44:28 [RalphS]
ACTION: Ralph ask EricP to do a quick audit of what may still be running on swada
18:44:49 [RalphS]
Topic: Summer UROPs
18:45:38 [RalphS]
DJW: we have a couple of UROPs arriving; Tim knows of 3
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... I was involved in selecting one, Joe Presby
18:46:13 [djweitzner]
http://tdc.mit.edu/brothers_i/joe-presbrey
18:46:28 [RalphS]
s/Presby/Presbrey/
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+DanC
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DJW: any further news on RDFa UROP?
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Ralph: I don't have an update. I thought Ben would interview the one applicant but I haven't followed up
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Harvey: I hope to hand back some fixes on the javascript RDFa codebase to Ben
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... the code is pretty alpha state now
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Danny: idea is to spread the 3 between tabulator, TAMI, and DTO work depending on skills and interest
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lk here
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ys missing
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tx
18:56:30 [RalphS]
Dan: re breadcrumbs -- I'm getting more signals that drupal was the right choice
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... Harry Halpin was involved in an evaluation group and they also selected drupal
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Topic: Harvey's final project talk
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DJW: Harvey will present on 24 May
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Ralph: regrets, I'll be out of town
18:57:42 [DanC]
(I'm invited to several things on 24 May... hmm...)
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DJW: I plan to invite Karger's group
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-> http://dig.csail.mit.edu/TAMI/harveyj/ped/ Harvey's Provenance-Embedding Documents work
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Topics: HASTAC conference
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DanC: I went to HASTAC last week, saw Pat Hayes' IKL work
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-> http://www.hastac.org/ HASTAC
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DanC: I told public-cwm-talk a few things about the conference
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Sandro: N3 is not relevant for RIF phase
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s/phase/phase I/
19:04:08 [RalphS]
-> http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-cwm-talk/2007AprJun/0000.html IKL bakes in owl: and xsd: prefixes rather than using OWL/XSD URIs? [DanC 2007-04-20]
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Lalana: I agree with Dan's assessment that people would take N3 more seriously if it had a formal semantics
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Sandro: 90% of N3 as people use it is RIF-core. The other 10% is the interesting stuff
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... Tim and Pat might be able to agree what that 10% is that's more than RIF-core
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DanC: all the policy stuff is in that 10% AFAICT
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The 10% whcih lets you do things kile log:includes nd log:semantics?
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... quoting and unquoting formulas is outside of RIFcore
19:07:54 [DanC]
right; log:uri, log:semantics, log:includes is all in IKL
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(with different punctuation)
19:09:10 [sandro]
Sandro: We (DIG) should figure out how to get Chris Menzel and Pat Hayes and TimBL funded to work on this as a Phase 2 RIF Dialect.
19:11:28 [sandro]
Sandro: Maybe it is too soon, though. Still, the exercise of doing this as a RIF Dialect seems like a win/win/win.
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(win for RIF-WG, win for users, win for researchers.)
19:12:27 [djweitzner]
http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2007/nsf07500/nsf07500.htm
19:16:47 [RalphS]
Topic: opencroquet
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http://www.opencroquet.org/index.php/Main_Page
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DanC: OpenCroquet is peer-to-peer Second Life
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... I mentioned a 70-person [tele]conference and [@@] sort-of blanched
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... typical collaborations seem to be 3-4 people
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Sandro: Second Life CTO mentioned last week at MIT intention to allow others to run Second Life servers
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... (Cory Ondrejka)
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Sandro: decentralization makes these part of the Web
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DanC: the OpenCroquet folk are doing human factors research and weren't willing to let Second Life have complete control over their data, thus they rolled their own
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Sandro: there could be some interesting policy questions as Second Life permits others to run servers
19:28:03 [DanC]
(well, that conflates a few parties into one; it wasn't the human factors researchers who rolled opencroquet; they became opencroquet users)
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... e.g. acceptable behaviors for other servers; "don't take away a person's money when they enter your island"
19:30:44 [DanC]
(club penguin!? my kids too!)
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"font of all hipness". chuckle.
19:31:49 [sandro]
(ah, my kids do webkinz world)
19:31:59 [DanC]
(is google the font, or SFO?)
19:33:16 [RalphS]
Topic: Next meeting
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DJW: I have a conflict for 14 May
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... perhaps TimBL will chair then
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-DanC
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[adjourned]
19:35:59 [sandro]
Club Penguin 1.6m users, Wbkinz 0.9m users..... http://i.cnn.net/money/magazines/business2/business2_archive/2007/04/01/8403359/lessons_tweenland_chart.gif
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-Danny
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-MIT531
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DIG_weekly()2:30PM has ended
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Attendees were Danny, Ralph, Lalana, Sandro, Harvey, DanC
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During our meeting, a friend sent me a pointer to a Salon article about gay marriage in virtual worlds, including this ad for Second Life, "Can't be married in real life? Try Second Life.". http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2007/04/28/gay_dwarves/index.html
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23:55:40 [sandro]
n3 help?
23:56:24 [sandro]
is a b-node in a rule conclusion ever treated as something new each time the rule matches? or is it just something new when the file is parsed?