DDR Simple API implemented successfully

As blogged [1], the DDR Simple API has been demonstrated to be viable. A
number of demonstrations were discussed at last week's Face-to-Face
meeting of the group, held in France. This is an important milestone.

Implementers indicated that similar architectural approaches were used,
particularly the use of mappings from standard vocabularies to
proprietary vocabularies. The complexity of implementation is quite low,
and a compliant implementation is easy to use in practice. Follow the
link below to the implementation report and then to some of the
implementation details.

The group will publish details of a C# implementation soon. We will also
publish an early draft of a possible way to represent Structures
(categories, groups, etc.), which will be a possible starting point for
another working group to pick up from the DDWG.

Meanwhile, the DDWG has decided that the work on the deliverables listed
in its charter has come to an end, so apart from the "paperwork", the
group will suspending activities. However, some of the participants have
expressed a wish to continue providing some assistance to potential
implementers, so we can expect some more material to appear on the wiki
over the coming months.

Regards,
---Rotan (chair)


[1]
http://www.w3.org/blog/DDWG/2008/06/24/ddr_simple_api_implemented_succes
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