Fwd: Response to your LC Comment -2417 on Media Ontology spec

Dear PLINGers - below is the formal response from the Media Annotations Working Group in relation to our comments on the Ontlology for Media Resource last call Working Draft.

They have adopted some of our comments, but not the major point.


Renato

Begin forwarded message:

> From: Thierry MICHEL <tmichel@w3.org>
> Date: 29 September 2010 16:59:16 AEST
> To: renato@iannella.it, "public-media-annotation@w3.org" <public-media-annotation@w3.org>
> Subject: Response to your LC Comment -2417 on Media Ontology spec
> Reply-To: tmichel@w3.org
> 
> Dear Renato,
> 
> The Media Annotations Working Group has reviewed the comments you sent [1] on the Last Call Working Draft [2] of the Ontlology for Media Resource 1.0 published on 08 June 2010.
> Thank you for having taken the time to review the document and to send us comments.
> 
> The Working Group's response to your comment is included below.
> Please review it carefully and *let us know by email at public-media-annotation@w3.org if you agree with it* or not before deadline date [09-oct-2010].
> In case of disagreement, you are requested to provide a specific solution for or a path to a consensus with the Working Group.
> If such a consensus cannot be achieved, you will be given the opportunity to raise a formal objection which will then be reviewed by the Director during the transition of this document to the next stage in the W3C Recommendation Track.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> For the Media Annotations Working Group,
> Thierry Michel,
> W3C Team Contact
> 
> 1. http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-media-annotation/2010Aug/0003.html
> 2. http://www.w3.org/TR/2010/WD-mediaont-10-20100608/
> 
> -----------------
> MAWG Resolution:
> ------------------
> 
> Proposed definition of ma:policy
> 
> Thank you for this proposal, we agree that this is better than the current definition of ma:policy, which has a policy attribute that can be either a string or URI. We will adopt your proposed definition of ma:policy, and include your examples to illustrate the use of this property.
> 
> - Recommended vocabulary for ma:policy.type
> 
> We will add that it is recommended to use a subset of policy related terms of the Meta information from the XHTML Vocabulary [1] for ma:policy.type.
> 
> - Overlap between ma:policy and ma:copyright
> 
> We agree with your comment that there is an overlap between ma:copyright and the case of using the ma:policy element to express a copyright statement. The decision to keep ma:copyright despite this overlap was made for reasons of usability and compatibility with current industry practice, as discussed by David Singer on the mailing list (see thread starting with [2]). Given this requirement, the only option to completely avoid overlap would be to define ma:copyright and ma:policy as mutually exclusive, which we do not consider a good option, as it would rather discourage making use of ma:policy and providing more detailed information. ma:copyright and ma:policy can co-exist in an annotation to serve different needs, even if they are partially overlapping in some cases.
> 
> [1] http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml/vocab/#
> [2] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-media-annotation/2010Aug/0004.html

Cheers

Renato Iannella
http://renato.iannella.it