Re: Draft message text for asking for help reviewing our deliverables

Thanks Hadley.

Are you going to be sending something similar to the W3C public lists we 
discussed?  [I missed who took the action for that.]

Dave

On 21/03/13 15:28, Hadley Beeman wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Below is the message I sent to one of the OKFN mailing lists.  Feel free
> to copy the content, edit it and/or steal it.
>
> Overall, please let your contacts and colleagues know that we need their
> help in reviewing our deliverables!
>
> Cheers,
>
>     Hadley
>
> Hadley Beeman
> Co-chair
> W3C Government Linked Data Working Group
>
> Begin forwarded message:
>
>> *From: *Hadley Beeman <hadley@linkedgov.org <mailto:hadley@linkedgov.org>>
>> *Subject: **Last call: ORG, DCAT and Data Cube ontologies - W3C Gov
>> Linked Data WG*
>> *Date: *14 March 2013 15:07:57 GMT
>> *To: *ckan-discuss@lists.okfn.org <mailto:ckan-discuss@lists.okfn.org>
>> *Cc: *Rufus Pollock <rufus.pollock@okfn.org
>> <mailto:rufus.pollock@okfn.org>>, GLD Chairs <team-gld-chairs@w3.org
>> <mailto:team-gld-chairs@w3.org>>
>>
>> Hi OKFN and CKAN list,
>>
>> We (the W3C Government Linked Data Working Group) have just put these
>> vocabularies into Last Call, and would welcome feedback from you and
>> your participants:
>>
>> • Organization Ontology (ORG)
>> • Data Catalog (DCAT) vocabulary
>> • Data Cube vocabulary
>>
>> - ORG describes a core ontology for organizational structures, aimed
>> at supporting linked data publishing of organizational information
>> across a number of domains. It is designed to allow domain-specific
>> extensions to add classification of organizations and roles, as well
>> as extensions to support neighbouring information such as
>> organizational activities. [1]
>>
>> - Data Catalog (DCAT) is an RDF vocabulary for expressing the contents
>> of data catalogs, such as government data portals.   DCAT is for
>> catalogs of all kinds of data (not just RDF data), but uses RDF to
>> support easy aggregation of catalogs and construction of services
>> which can search across many unrelated catalogs. [2]
>>
>> - Data Cube is an RDF vocabulary for publishing multidimensional data,
>> particularly statistical data.  It is compatible with the cube model
>> that underlies SDMX (Statistical Data and Metadata
>> eXchange), widely-used ISO standard.  The Data Cube Vocabulary brings
>> essential SDMX elements to RDF, providing a standard way for
>> governments to publish statistical information as Linked Data. [3]
>>
>>
>> ** Please send comments to the public mailing list
>> public-gld-comments@w3.org <mailto:public-gld-comments@w3.org> by *8
>> April 2013*. **
>>
>>
>> Many thanks for your help!
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>>    Hadley
>>
>> Hadley Beeman
>> Co-chair
>> W3C Government Linked Data Working Group
>>
>> [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/WD-vocab-org-20121023/
>> [2] http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/WD-vocab-dcat-20130312/
>> [3] http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/WD-vocab-data-cube-20130312/
>>
>

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