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 to capture assertions about information in the document.
Example – expiration information, but from the SPDX ASIA call, there is also product usage (ok for testing), as well as affiliation of components with specific products.