Draft Minutes of ICOM TC Meeting, July 8, 2009

Minutes of ICOM TC Meeting, July 8, taken by Eric S. Chan

Agenda:

1. Roll Call

2. Approve draft minutes from June 10 and 24 TC Meetings

3. Contextual presence for scope (community or workspace) and certain types of container

4. AOB

1. The following eligible members were present

Patrick Durusau

Deirdre Lee

Peter Saint-Andre

Rafiul Ahad

Eric Chan

Philip Arkcoll dialed-in but lost the connection.

2. Approval of the draft minutes from June 10 and 24 Meetings were deferred.

3. Peter Saint-Andre explained that ICOM presence model may support contextual presence (ICOM don’t really need system-wide presence). Contextual presence in community, workspace, forum, conference, chat room, etc., contexts requires client applications to track user interactions with workspaces, forums, and mouse/keyboard activities. Contextual presence can include ambient information, such as current task/activity, location, device, etc. Information from ICOM calendar and task schedules and other ICOM contexts can be superimposed on dynamic presence. Contextual presence can be challenging to support, usually requires thick clients, and has reliability issue when the client provides information.

Deirdre asked whether ICOM is defining a new presence model. Peter has extensive involvement in presence and XMPP standards and technologies. He will provide references and summary data points for the technologies. Deirdre mentioned a student at DERI worked on contextual presence ontology. Deirdre will check the status of presence ontology.

Peter asked whether presence is too detailed for the initial model of ICOM. Eric proposed ICOM will start with the most general features of community, workspace, and containment. Contextual presence is a detailed feature so may not be part of the initial model.

The meeting was adjourned.

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