- From: Ed Summers <ehs@pobox.com>
- Date: Thu, 6 May 2010 14:20:11 -0400
- To: public-egov-ig@w3.org
On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 10:59 AM, <rachel.flagg@gsa.gov> wrote: > I welcome your thoughts on how we can get our group back on track, working toward our THREE areas of focus: > > - Usage of Web Standards (Government Websites and use of best practices and standards) > - Transparency and Participation (Enabling discovery, communications, and interaction) > - Seamless Integration of Data (Use of data standards, Semantic Web, XML) > > Read the report: "The Fate of the Semantic Web" http://pewinternet.org/Reports/2010/Semantic-Web/Overview.aspx?r=1 I agree Rachel. I also think that the focus on the Data Catalog Vocabulary [1] is a good example of something practical that this interest group (albeit in a small sub-group) is doing to promote government transparency, participation and data integration. Just today the sub-group resolved [2] to focus effort on publishing a vocabulary for describing data catalogs based on some initial work done at DERI [3]. I think a w3c endorsed vocabulary for publishing data catalogs on the web would greatly encourage interoperability, aggregation and federation of data being published by governments. I think it's important to point out that it is not required that the Semantic Web, or web 3.0, become *real* for the Data Catalog Vocabulary to be a success. Rather, we need general consensus about the bits of structured information to make available about data catalogs, and to provide some simple guidance on how to express these descriptions on the web we have today. If you are interested in the use cases that are driving this work, they are being worked on over on the wiki [4]. The group has involvement from a wide variety of people/organizations [5], and I would encourage you to join the conversation. As a fellow US federal government staffer to another, we need your help! Ed Summers Library of Congress [1] http://www.w3.org/egov/wiki/Data_Catalog_Vocabulary [2] http://www.w3.org/egov/IG/meeting/Data_Catalog_Vocabulary/2010-05-06#resolution_1 [3] http://vocab.deri.ie/dcat [4] http://www.w3.org/egov/wiki/Data_Catalog_Vocabulary/Use_Cases_and_Requirements [5] http://www.w3.org/egov/wiki/Data_Catalog_Vocabulary#Participants
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