HCLS Dataset Description - Call for Implementations

Dear colleagues,

 Happy New Year!

 I'm writing to you today to obtain feedback on the HCLS Interest Group
Note on Dataset Descriptions (http://www.w3.org/TR/hcls-dataset/),
published last year on May 14, 2015. In particular, we would like to
encourage members to implement the standard and report on their experience.
Implementation experience is required to show that a specification is
sufficiently clear, complete, and relevant to needs, to ensure that
independent interoperable implementations of each feature of the
specification will be realized. While no exhaustive list of requirements is
provided here, we are looking to assess the specification in terms of, but
not limited to:

   - is each feature of the current specification implemented, and how is
   this demonstrated?
   - are there independent interoperable implementations of the current
   specification?
   - are there implementations created by people other than the authors of
   the specification?
   - are implementations publicly deployed?
   - is there implementation experience at all levels of the
   specification's ecosystem (authoring, consuming, publishing…)?
   - are there reports of difficulties or problems with implementation?
   - are there features or guidance that are missing from the
   implementation?

Please use the GitHub wiki to add your implementation

https://github.com/W3C-HCLSIG/HCLSDatasetDescriptions/wiki/Implementations

If you wish to submit feedback regarding the specification in a manner that
is tracked by the Interest Group, please submit them via using our GitHub
issues https://github.com/w3c-hclsig/hclsdatasetdescription/issues.

We are planning to discuss the implementation feedback at 8am Pacific on
February 17, 2016. We welcome your participation - please mark your
calendars accordingly!

Cheers,

m.

Michel Dumontier, PhD
Associate Professor of Medicine (Biomedical Informatics)
Stanford University
http://dumontierlab.com