RE: [ws-calendar] Calendar queries and filters

Alternately, this could be an additional chapter added to the signals and streams…

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Toby Considine
TC9, Inc

OASIS TC Chair: oBIX & WS-Calendar

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SGIP Smart Grid Architecture Committee

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From: ws-calendar@lists.oasis-open.org [mailto:ws-calendar@lists.oasis-open.org] On Behalf Of Toby Considine
Sent: Sunday, February 03, 2013 12:19 PM
To: ws-calendar@lists.oasis-open.org
Subject: [ws-calendar] Calendar queries and filters

For over a year, I have had a notion of using vavailability as a generic query/filter language for schedule and calendar-related information. My initial thoughts were tied to syndication, but the more I think of it, I see it as a general issue.

1) Show me weekday evening classes I could take.

2) Show me all control events that occurred during working hours during January?

3) Show me all conference rooms that are available Tuesday morning as well as the first Thursday of every month?

4) Show me all monday morning meetings in the last 6 months.

There may be other components of the query.

1) Show me weekday evening classes I could take. Exclude Pilates classes

2) Show me all control events that occurred during working hours during January? Short-Cycle events only

3) Show me all conference rooms that are available Tuesday morning as well as the first Thursday of every month? Only the ones with multimedia equipment and phones.

4) Show me all monday morning meetings on the ground floor attended by more than 10 people in the last 6 months.

Those other types of queries require specific semantics tied to things that are out of scope for today’s question.

Should WS-Calendar prepare a Committee Note on Calendar-related queries?

Should WS-Calendar publish some sort of guidance on using