- From: Dan Brickley <danbri@w3.org>
- Date: Thu, 17 May 2001 14:53:52 -0400 (EDT)
- To: Aaron Swartz <aswartz@upclink.com>
- cc: Brian McBride <bwm@hplb.hpl.hp.com>, rdf core <w3c-rdfcore-wg@w3.org>
On Thu, 17 May 2001, Aaron Swartz wrote: > Brian McBride <bwm@hplb.hpl.hp.com> wrote: > > > 15 Helping WG members new to RDF come up to speed. > > Perhaps this is something we could do off-list, since familiarity with RDF > was supposed to be a pre-requisite for joining the WG: > > <q cite="http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/RDFCoreWGCharter"> > Working Group members will need to be familiar with the RDF Model and Syntax > Specification, RDF Schema 1.0 Specification, and other related XML > specifications (particularly XML Schema), and will ideally have > implementation experience with RDF-based applications. > </q> > > I don't think our valuable group time should be spent on this. This was my idea. We do indeed expect WG members to be familiar with a vast and ever growing range of technologies. As chairs we're nevertheless aware that WG members have had varied histories; some have spent many happy hours wrestling with RDF APIs, parsers etc., others have found equally rewarding ways of spending their time. We wanted to take a few minutes on the teleconference to offer some (non telecon) time to any WG members who felt they needed some hands-on experience with current RDF tools. My suspicion was that such an exercise could also give us fodder for 'RDF hands-on howto' FAQ entries or similar. There was no intention to spend more than a few words on this during the call. Since you raise this now, let's try to do this by email with a brief follow-on tommorrow. If there are any WG members who feel their work on this group would be enhanced by more RDF hands-on experience, I hereby offer to spend a little time with them (in logged IRC) going through some of the existing RDF tools that are out there. I'd hope they would also help turn our experiments into a document that would help others going through the same learning curve. That's it really. Note that we also expect WG members to be familiar with XML Schema. I for one have to admit to not feeling fully up to speed with various aspects of the XML Schema specification. That's life; our job is to work around it! If anyone would like to spend some time looking at XML Schema tools / implementations with me I'd be very interested... We can't all read everything, but we can hopefully learn something through sharing what we do know. Dan -- mailto:danbri@w3.org http://www.w3.org/People/DanBri/
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