BP-MLOD Charter Published

Dear Community Group Members, 

Apologies for the lack of activity, we have been working on the group's charter:

1) Please find the charter here: http://www.w3.org/community/bpmlod/wiki/Group_charter I include a text version for your reference. 
2) We have two dates for our first telco (19th & 20th of June) with 10 timing options. Please indicate your preference here: http://www.doodle.com/cwwyi3icz4qyr7e4 - Note the doodle poll will close on the 12th of June.
3) Please forward this mail to any contacts you feel may wish to join the group, details can be found here: http://www.w3.org/community/bpmlod/

Best Regards on Behalf of the Co-Chairs,

Dominic Jones, Jorge Gracia, Jose Emilio Labra Gayo




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This document forms the initial charter of the Best Practices for Multilingual
Linked (Open) Data (BP-MLOD) community Group (http://www.w3.org/community/bpmlod/). 
The group has been formed to try and gather a common and community driven approach to 
creating multilingual linked open data sets. The group was formed as the result of a 
number of conferences, workshops and meetings. The last being Multilingual Web Rome, 
where this group was formed.

Purpose: 
The working group is tasked with gathering input from the multilingual
web community regarding the creation of Linked (open) data sets in multiple
languages, or linking existing multilingual data sets. The aim of the group is to
publish a set of common best practices, with the remit of linking multilingual
linked (open) data sets. In the first instance the group aims to simply document
the skeleton best practices discussion points and approaches to documenting such
best practices. Once this is done, with community engagement the group will
re-write its charter, in line with the communities goals.

Approach: 
With three co-chairs the group aims to focus on gathering and publishing
the views of the community via a collaborative call, review and revision process.
The strength of the group will be measured via the input of its members into the
published community groups output. The co-chairs are in place to guide the process
of gathering, reviewing and guiding the publishing of the best practices. The
process for collecting and publishing the best practices will follow six simple
steps: 

1. First, a classification will be made (by the Co-Chairs) of the topics to
be treated by the community. E.g., naming, URIs vs IRIs, linking, etc.
http://www.w3.org/community/bpmlod/wiki/Topic_classification 
2. Then, we will make a call for use cases, additional topics, trying to identify 
which topics are involved in each use case. E.g., ontology localisation, publication 
of MLOD from data silos, using MLOD in translation workflows, etc. 
3. Next, we will organise dedicated telcos to discuss best practises for each of the topics, 
in the context of the identified use cases. 
4. Finally, when we consider that the discussion about a topic is mature and some consensus 
is reached we will document it in a report to be published via the community group page.

Steps 2 through 4 may occur multiple times, as required by the review process with
the focus being publishing the initial skeleton (by late Autumn/Fall 2013) of the
report relating to the publishing of multilingual linked (open) data sets or
linking existing data sets.

Key Milestones: 
M1 - Kick-off meeting (June 2013) 
M2 - First draft of the report with topic selection and initial use cases (October 2013) 
M3 - Final draft of the report with final use cases and best practises (March 2014)


Communication Mechanism: 
1) The group will communicate via the public-bpmlod@w3.org mailing list, with calls for input, 
consensus and draft reports. 
2) All documentation will be recorded on the groups wiki page
http://www.w3.org/community/bpmlod/wiki/Main_Page 
3) Skype (or GoToMeeting) will be used to host teleconferences. During the meeting Google 
docs will be used for meeting minutes and action points, these will be recorded in the
wiki once the meeting is completed.

Alignment with other projects: 
It is envisaged that the community group will align
with relevant EU and nationally funded research projects and support actions in
the areas of linguistics, language data, linked open data, localisation and
translation. The group aims to focus key researchers from across the area of
multilingual linked open data in the process gathering and recording best
practices.


Next Steps: 
1. Doodle poll only for the June Telco (19th or 20th of June)
(http://www.doodle.com/cwwyi3icz4qyr7e4) 
2. Discussion will be focused around the topic classification created by the co-chairs and
hosted here (http://www.w3.org/community/bpmlod/wiki/Topic_classification). 
3. Following the telco an open call for use-cases, additional topics will be
conducted (point 2 of the Approach section of this charter).

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Dominic Jones
Research Integration Coordinator
CNGL, KDEG, Trinity College Dublin. 
+353 (0) 879 259 719 - https://www.scss.tcd.ie/Dominic.Jones

Received on Thursday, 6 June 2013 14:45:13 UTC