Re: Report from the CALSCH WG meeting at the 58th IETF on 11/11/03

[Libby Miller <Libby.Miller@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

hi Tim, all,

I've been following these discussions with interest, and was waiting for
an opportunity to (re-)introduce myself. I lead the W3C RDF Interest
group's calendaring taskforce (an informal group), and I'd be very interested
to improve contact with the CALSCH WG.

Within the past year, we have narrowed our remit to providing
documentation and software for roundtripping between iCalendar and its
RDF representation. You might be interested in a summary of our current
mini-process here:

http://swordfish.rdfweb.org/discovery/2003/11/rdfical/final-tidy.html

(that document is a submission to the WWW2004 confernce)

Perhaps the most relevant aspect is that we generate our RDF schema for
iCalendar from test data, and not the other way around. We are therefore
very interested in any sample data that is available.

You can find our sample iCalendar files and the derived RDF files here:

http://www.w3.org/2002/12/cal/test/
http://www.w3.org/2002/12/cal/

cheers,

Libby

On Sat, 15 Nov 2003, Tim Hare wrote:

>
> I will have to look up what WebDAV is, but the rest of it sounds OK to
> me.  I wonder if we should also, during our review process, look over the
> RDF calendar work to see where we can improve synergy with those efforts.
> At this point I don't understand RDF/Semantic Web items at a deep enough
> theoretical level but as an old, old, user of markup languages I do "get"
> the benefits of XML and I believe there were folks who took the xCal work
> and tried to extend it into RDF?  XML also would allow RSS "feeds" of
> published calendar info such as schedules.
>
> Tim Hare
> Interested Bystander, Non-Inc.
>
> At 11:45 AM 11/13/03 -0500, Nathaniel Borenstein wrote:
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> >The CALSCH WG (really a minor fraction thereof) met in Minneapolis.
> >Both WG chairs and the editor of the only open document were absent
> >(the latter due to Jabber-related technical difficulties) from the
> >meeting.  At the invitation of Pat Egen, I chaired the meeting.
> >Obviously the absence of so many key people made a major decision
> >inappropriate.  However, there was apparent consensus for considering
> >several steps that we hope will reinvigorate the WG, and that we are
> >proposing to the mailing list for wider consideration.
> >
> >1.  The Changing of the Bobs:  Bob Morgan has volunteered to come in as
> >WG chair in place of Bob Mahoney, who has been under increasing time
> >pressure and wishes to step down.
> >
> >2.  The Changing of the Bards:  I have volunteered to perform One More
> >Round of edits on the CAP document, with an eye to having a Last Call
> >for Proposed Standard status by March.  I want to express my gratitude
> >to Doug Royer for getting the document to the point where the remaining
> >problems are small enough for me to view that as an easy target date.
> >
> >3.  The Changing of the Paradigms:  Lisa Dusseault has volunteered to
> >write a first outline of what a WebDAV-enabled calendar access
> >mechanism might look like.
> >
> >4.  The Changing of the Version:  There was general consensus that, CAP
> >aside, the rest of the ical documents have been around long enough and
> >had enough implementations that it is time to review and amend them
> >all.  Accordingly, Bob Morgan has volunteered to draft a new charter
> >for the WG, and Ned Freed and Nathaniel Borenstein have both
> >volunteered to work on that next round of document revisions.
> >
> >I look forward to your comments on these proposals.  -- Nathaniel
> >
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