ADMS.F/OSS: Working Group Virtual Meeting 2012.06.05

Adoption of minutes of previous meetings: 

• ADMS.F/OSS: Virtual Meeting 2012.02.28
• Software Forges: Webinar 2012.05.22 on the technical aspects interlinking software forges

Overview activities during the public review period of v0.3:

• 9 people have made comments;
• 35 new issues have been raised;
• 129 downloads of v0.3. 

Issues

A. General

1. The name "ADMS.F/OSS" is too restrictive: the specification can also be used to describe non-F/OSS software
2. What can be reused from SPDX?
3. Provide a mapping to ISO/IEC 19770-2 Software identification Tags
4. Add a conformance statement
5. Static Data vs Variable Data
6. Should schema.org/SoftwareApplication be reused?

B. Use Cases

1. Use case: provide better metadata categorization
2. Relevance for Software Asset Management
3. ADMS.F/OSS Use Cases: Identifier of a software asset

C. Conceptual model

1. Naming of concepts Software Project - Software Asset - Software Distribution
2. Different Understandings of term Software Asset
3. Software assets are not necessarily executable software
4. Software project or initiative
5. ADMS.F/OSS: How to deal with a software asset located in different repositories
6. Metrics: Lines of Code
7. Measure: average time to close support tickets
8. The set of syntactic formats specified in ISO8601 is very rich
9. The use of internationalized domain names should be allowed
10. Improve description of geographic coverage
11. Description of date of creation
12. Forge as a purpose built platform
13. Correct Typos and unclarities in the specification

D. Controlled vocabularies

1. Licence Type: foresee a term to indicate that a licence is OSI approved
2. Consider the use of Debtags as an alternative to the Trove classification system for software
3. Vocabulary for Asset Type
4. Selected comments on Licence Type
5. Audience classification
6. Use of Trove
7. Provide additional input to the controlled vocabularies
8. Is it allowed to create new code values?

E. RDF Schema

1. Change the preferred namespace prefix into admssw
2. Add examples in RDF Turtle notation to the specs
3. Selected comments on the RDF Schema
4. Should schema.org/SoftwareApplication be reused?
5. Alignment with DOAP - Description of a Project

Wrapup: next steps

• Seek further alignment with SPDX, DOAP, and ISO19770
• Provide an editorial draft for WG review
• Seek implementation pilots (e.g. Spreadsheet tool, FusionForge)