Re: vCard - Old vs. New?

At 12:22 PM 5/11/2009 +0200, Peter Mika wrote:
>...  I wouldn't mind seeing the W3C to become the organization
>where ontologies are developed in a collaborative fashion
>and hosted in a long term,

I'd like W3C to be *one of* the organizations that do this.  That is,
I wouldn't advocate for an exclusive; if an established community
already has a forum for working on its vocabulary with appropriate
(to the context) persistence promises around the namespace
name(s) then I wouldn't want to give the impression that their
independent work is somehow a lesser part of the Semantic Web.

>but as you say that requires a process, and in general a certain level of commitment. 

Both are achievable.  Some of our older ideas required incremental
funding that didn't materialize in sufficient magnitude.

>Practically, I would be happy with cleaning up the existing notes

Which is (socially) simpler if the previous authors concur with
the plan for producing an update.

>and putting in place some barriers for entry so that people can
>not easily submit any half-baked ontology as a member submission
>or note of some sort.

Member Submissions come in many flavors.  The staff has an
opportunity -- through the Staff Comment -- to refer readers of
a Member Submission to alternate materials.

I, too, would be interested in having W3C provide a mechanism
that lets vocabulary proposals grow into community-supported
activities.  Even half-baked proposals :)