[VM] Proposed update to TF description

Dear all,

Since reporting on progress in the VM Task Force [1] I have
been encouraged to update the VM Task Force Description
[2] to bring it into line with what we are actually doing.

I propose to change the description as indicated below.
Note that the objectives are tightly scoped to work on the
current Editor's Draft [3].

Tom

[1] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-swbp-wg/2005Nov/0122.html
[2] http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/BestPractices/VM/
[3] http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/BestPractices/VM/http-examples/2005-11-18/

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Proposed replacement texts for VM Task Force description

    COORDINATORS

    * Tom Baker (Goettingen State and University Library)

    MEMBERS

    * Libby Miller (Asemantics)
    * Dan Brickley (W3C)
    * Alistair Miles (CCL)
    * Bernard Vatant (Mondeca)
    * Ralph Swick (W3C)

    OBJECTIVES

    1. To define a set of good-practice "recipes" for configuring an Apache
       server for content negotiation such that:

      -- If a person tries to dereference the URI of a class or
         property (i.e. via a Web browser), they end up at
         the relevant bit of human-readable documentation.

      -- If a machine tries to dereference the URI of a class
         or property, they end up with a serialisation of a set of
         RDF statements describing that class or property, with
         a provenance that allows differentiation of different
         'versions' of an RDF schema/ontology.

      -- The dereferencing solution complies with TAG resolution on
         httpRange-14 [6].

    2. To wrap those recipes in enough context to make
       them usable by vocabulary maintainers to provide
       documentation and schemas for their vocabularies.

    APPROACH

    Based on a comparison of documentation requirements for
    existing vocabularies such as Dublin Core, SKOS, and FOAF,
    this note describes a range of good-practice solutions for
    providing documentation of the vocabularies both in human-
    and machine-processable form.

    SCOPE

    Guidelines for providing documentation about terms in
    vocabularies (Metadata Element Sets, Thesauri, Ontologies,
    Published Subjects, and the like).

    DELIVERABLES

    A relatively concise technical note describing how to 
    configure an Apache Web server for content negotiation.

    DEPENDENCIES (if any)

    * SKOS (Simple Knowledge Organisation System)
      <http://www.w3.org/2004/02/skos/>
    * SWBP Thesaurus Task Force (THES)
      <http://www.w3.org/2004/03/thes-tf/mission>
    * TAG decision on httpRange-14
      <http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-tag/2005Jun/0039.html>


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Dr. Thomas Baker                      baker@sub.uni-goettingen.de
SUB - Goettingen State                            +49-551-39-3883
and University Library                           +49-30-8109-9027
Papendiek 14, 37073 Göttingen

Received on Wednesday, 23 November 2005 15:16:46 UTC