- From: Jim Hendler <jhendler@darpa.mil>
- Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2000 17:50:03 -0500
- To: www-rdf-logic@w3.org
Folks- It is clear that we should keep this semantic language discussion as open as possible. At the same time to have some sort of mechanism to keep editing the document and, we hope, to eventually have a common language used in our projects and maybe brought forward to the W3C membership as a proposed language draft. As such, I've been in contact with Hans-Georg Stork, the EU's IST lead on semantic web issues, and we thought it would be useful to create a small group that joined our separately emerging initiatives who would play editor and try to collect the discussions from this mailing list into operational decisions (basically a microcosm of how many things work in the W3C as best we understand). We hope this will help DAML-ONT 0.5 eventually become 1.0 -- i.e. a stable release we all can live with. To this end, we have asked several researchers affiliated with our emerging programs to form an ad hoc committee to do this. The idea is for the items being discussed by the committee to be released and discussed on this mailing list, opinions sought and collected, and then proposals made (and released back to this committee). This committee has no official status within DARPA, the EU's IST, the W3C or anything else (thus the "as hoc" designation) -- but we hope it will help all of us to track changes, edit the document, and reach consensus (more or less how the original DAML-ONT came into existence) Again, goal is to be as open as possible and post minutes, discussions, etc. Mike Dean will post mail to this list soon w/respect to details. We look forward to having you all participate in the discussion -- the excitement growing around semantic markup is great, and I thank you all for your continued involvement. -Jim Hendler DARPA/Univ of Maryland The committee as currently constituted is: Joint US/EU ad hoc Agent Markup Language Committee Chair: Mike Dean Editors: Dan Connolly, Lynn Andrea Stein, Deb McGuiness Members: Dan Brickley Stefan Decker Pat Hayes Jeff Heflin Ian Horrocks Ora Lassila Frank Van Harmelen EU Advisor: Dieter Fenstel US Advisor: Tim Berners-Lee Govt Advisors: Jim Hendler, Hans-Georg Stork [p.s. I reiterate this committee has no official relationship with the US govt, the EU IST program, or the World Wide Web Consortium.] Dr. James Hendler jhendler@darpa.mil Chief Scientist, DARPA/ISO 703-696-2238 (phone) 3701 N. Fairfax Dr. 703-696-2201 (Fax) Arlington, VA 22203 http://www.cs.umd.edu/~hendler
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