Re: Time Ontology and SSN ontology published as REC, WG is done!

well done to all involved!

On 19 October 2017 at 11:43, Francois Daoust <fd@w3.org> wrote:

> Hello participants of the Spatial Data on the Web Working Group,
>
> As forwarded by Armin in previous email, the Semantic Sensor Network
> Ontology has been published as a final W3C Recommendation today, a happy
> ending after a bumpy journey on the standardization track:
>  https://www.w3.org/TR/2017/REC-vocab-ssn-20171019/
>  https://www.w3.org/TR/vocab-ssn/
>
> But that's not the only good news for today. It so happens that the Time
> Ontology in OWL specification has also been published as a W3C
> Recommendation, another happy ending after a fairly long journey started
> more than 10 years ago:
>  https://www.w3.org/TR/2017/REC-owl-time-20171019/
>  https://www.w3.org/TR/owl-time/
>
> The Working Group is now officially done, yoohoo! Congratulations to
> everyone, chairs, editors, participants, external contributors, and Phil
> without whom nothing would have happened!
>
> For all things practical, you can now consider the Working Group as closed
> and you should all jump onto the Spatial Data on the Web Interest Group,
> who will have its first call next week:
>  https://www.w3.org/2017/sdwig/
>  https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-sdwig/2017Oct/0001.html
>
> That said, due to a shortcoming in the W3C Process, which requires the
> presence of a Working Group for spec maintenance, please note that we will
> most likely keep the Spatial Data on the Web Working Group alive for some
> time, with the expectation that it will not do anything on top of being the
> entity that publishes possible errata on the specs. The errata themselves
> should be discussed in the Interest Group.
>
> If all goes well, the 2018 version of the Process document will fix the
> issue, and the Working Group can be properly closed then.
>
> Thanks,
> Francois.
>
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