Technical Team/Minutes/2020-09-15

September 15, 2020

Attendees

Topics:

Demo of new online tools
- namespace followup with Mark, Philippe and Fossology
Document generation / XSD/ XML
Discussion on the capturing of facts vs opinions
- relationship property
- annotation type

A test version of the online tools is available at http://52.32.53.255/
Walked through the functionality
Discussion on the namespace features
- Organizations – can only be added by authorized users
  - We could use this to help maintain who has the ability to add which organizations to license namespace
- Request Mark Atwoord (Amazon), Philippe (NexB), and FOSSology to review the new namespace functionality

Overview of current process
- RDF OWL document is the base format used to generate all other documents
- OWL document is kept manually in sync with spec with the spec being the source of record
Desire to change process in the future
- Automatically keep document and OWL documents in sync
- Have a different mechanism for describing the constraints that is more convenient than OWL
  - OMG is using OWL and SHACL
  - SHAX is another possibility
  - David is working on a graph language that may help – will keep us up to date

Currently, principle stated that documents are focused on facts
Some of the proposals for new profile introduce things that are not necessary facts
Proposal to extend Relationship to include things that may not be facts
Proposal to add Annotations
Example – expiration information