transition request: first public WD of SKOS Core

On behalf of the Semantic Web Best Practice Working Group and its
co-chairs, I hereby make this transition requeest to First Public
Working Draft transition of a set of three documents on porting
thesaurii to the Semantic Web.

Document title
    SKOS Core Vocabulary Specification
Document URI
    http://www.w3.org/2004/02/skos/core/spec/2005-05-04
Proposed shortname
    http://www.w3.org/TR/swbp-skos-core-spec

Document title
    SKOS Core Guide
Document URI
    http://www.w3.org/2004/02/skos/core/guide/2005-02-15
Proposed shortname
    http://www.w3.org/TR/swbp-skos-core-guide

Document title
    Quick Guide to Publishing a Thesaurus on the Semantic Web
Document URI
    http://www.w3.org/2004/03/thes-tf/primer/2005-05-04
Proposed shortname
    http://www.w3.org/TR/swbp-thesaurus-pubguide

Estimated publication date
    10 May

Record of the group's decision to advance:
    The proposal to advance was mailed [1] to the WG 24 hours in
    advance of its regular biweekly telecon and the decision to request
    publication was resolved [2] by the WG at today's telecon.

[1] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-swbp-wg/2005May/0014.html
[2] http://www.w3.org/2005/05/05-swbp-irc#T17-18-10

The abstracts and status sections of these three documents are
reproduced below:

SKOS Core Vocabulary Specification

Abstract

SKOS Core is a model for expressing the structure and content of
concept schemes (thesauri, classification schemes, subject heading
lists, taxonomies, terminologies, glossaries and other types of
controlled vocabulary).

The SKOS Core Vocabulary is an application of the Resource Description
Framework (RDF), that can be used to express a concept scheme as an
RDF graph. Using RDF allows data to be linked to and/or merged with
other RDF data by semantic web applications.

This document gives a reference-style overview of the SKOS Core
Vocabulary as it stands at the time of publication. It also describes
the policies for ownership, naming, persistence and change by which
the SKOS Core Vocabulary is managed.

Status of this Document

This document is an Editor's Draft for review by the Semantic Web Best
Practices and Deployment Working Group (hereafter 'the Working Group')
and the participants of the public-esw-thes@w3.org mailing list and is
subject to change without notice. This document has no formal standing
within W3C. Please consult the Working Group's home page and the W3C
technical reports index for information about the latest publications
by this group. This document may be updated, replaced or obsoleted by
other documents at any time. It is inappropriate to cite this document
as other than work in progress.

This document is published by the Semantic Web Best Practices and
Deployment Working Group, part of the W3C Semantic Web Activity. The
Working Group intends the SKOS Core Vocabulary Specification to become
a W3C Working Group Note (see
[http://www.w3.org/2004/02/Process-20040205/tr.html#maturity-levels]).
However, other outcomes are possible within the framework of the W3C
process (see [http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Process/]) and will be
considered in response to deployment experience and feedback from the
W3C membership. The Working Group has discussed the potential for SKOS
Core to evolve into possible future W3C Recommendation Track work
items, and would value feedback on the level of formal standardization
that is appropriate.

We encourage public comments. Please send comments to
public-esw-thes@w3.org [archive] and start the subject line of the
message with "comment:".

Publication as a Working Draft does not imply endorsement by the W3C
Membership.


SKOS Core Guide

Abstract

SKOS Core provides a model for expressing the basic structure and
content of concept schemes (thesauri, classification schemes, subject
heading lists, taxonomies, terminologies, glossaries and other types
of controlled vocabulary).

The SKOS Core Vocabulary is an application of the Resource Description
Framework (RDF), that can be used to express a concept scheme as an
RDF graph. Using RDF allows data to be linked to and/or merged with
other RDF data by semantic web applications.

This document is a guide using the SKOS Core Vocabulary, for readers
who already have a basic understanding of RDF concepts.

Status of this Document

This document is an Editor's Draft for review by the Semantic Web Best
Practices and Deployment Working Group (hereafter 'the Working Group')
and the participants of the public-esw-thes@w3.org mailing list and is
subject to change without notice. This document has no formal standing
within W3C. Please consult the Working Group's home page and the W3C
technical reports index for information about the latest publications
by this group. This document may be updated, replaced or obsoleted by
other documents at any time. It is inappropriate to cite this document
as other than work in progress.

This document is published by the Semantic Web Best Practices and
Deployment Working Group, part of the W3C Semantic Web Activity. The
Working Group intends the SKOS Core Guide to become a W3C Working
Group Note (see
[http://www.w3.org/2004/02/Process-20040205/tr.html#maturity-levels]).
However, other outcomes are possible within the framework of the W3C
process (see [http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Process/]) and will be
considered in response to deployment experience and feedback from the
W3C membership. The Working Group has discussed the potential for SKOS
Core to evolve into possible future W3C Recommendation Track work
items, and would value feedback on the level of formal standardization
that is appropriate.

We encourage public comments. Please send comments to
public-esw-thes@w3.org [archive] and start the subject line of the
message with "comment:".

Publication as a Working Draft does not imply endorsement by the W3C
Membership.


Quick Guide to Publishing a Thesaurus on the Semantic Web

Abstract

This document describes in brief how to express the content and
structure of a thesaurus, and metadata about a thesaurus, in
RDF. Using RDF allows data to be linked to and/or merged with other
RDF data by semantic web applications. The Semantic Web, which is
based on the Resource Description Framework (RDF), provides a common
framework that allows data to be shared and reused across application,
enterprise, and community boundaries.

Status of this Document

This document is an Editor's Draft for review by the Semantic Web Best
Practices and Deployment Working Group (hereafter 'the Working Group')
and the participants of the public-esw-thes@w3.org mailing list and is
subject to change without notice. This document has no formal standing
within W3C. Please consult the Working Group's home page and the W3C
technical reports index for information about the latest publications
by this group. This document may be updated, replaced or obsoleted by
other documents at any time. It is inappropriate to cite this document
as other than work in progress.

This document is published by the Semantic Web Best Practices and
Deployment Working Group, part of the W3C Semantic Web Activity. The
Working Group intends the Quick Guide to Publishing a Thesaurus on the
Semantic Web to become a W3C Working Group Note.

We encourage public comments. Please send comments to
public-esw-thes@w3.org [archive] and start the subject line of the
message with "comment:".

Publication as a Working Draft does not imply endorsement by the W3C
Membership.

-Ralph

Received on Thursday, 5 May 2005 19:24:34 UTC