dwbp-ACTION-123: UPDATE - Call for comments

Hi All,

I read the comments and suppressed some text from the original metadata
introduction.

I can also suppress the last paragraph, about scope, if editors decide that
this information will be in another part of the document.

Please, new comments are welcome:
http://w3c.github.io/dwbp/bp.html#metadata

Thank you.

Laufer




2014-12-10 13:08 GMT-02:00 Bernadette Farias Lóscio <bfl@cin.ufpe.br>:

> Hi Laufer and Annette,
>
> Thanks for your comments! I also made comments inline of Annette's
> comments:
>
> Thanks for writing up a nice introduction to metadata. I really like that
>> you addressed the issues of different granularity and different types. We
>> may not even need to include the term as something readers need to be
>> familiar with in advance. In general, I like the idea of defining terms
>> where they are first used in the text. I tend to think we should consider
>> both technical people and their managers when determining what level of
>> technicality to write to, so that someone charged with publishing data on
>> the web can easily point a senior decision-maker to specific best practices
>> in order to get buy-in.
>>
>
> I agree with Annette! I think that we should try to consider both
> technical people and their managers whenever possible.
>
>>
>> Because we are really targeting publishers of data, I think the first few
>> sentences are unnecessary. You could start with the sentence, “Metadata is
>> data about data.” That nicely clues the reader to the fact that this is an
>> introduction that will explain what metadata is.
>>
>
> Again, I agree with Annete! In the Introduction, we discuss the role of
> the data publisher.
>
>>
>> I don’t understand why there is a paragraph about distribution formats
>> included here. Not only is it out of scope, it seems largely off topic.
>>
>> I think we should have here some explicit best practices that are about
>> metadata more generally than specific fields, like “metadata should be
>> available in human readable and machine-readable forms”. That is a best
>> practice in itself, so I think it should get more than just a mention in
>> the introduction.
>>
>
> That's the idea! I think BP in the metadata section will be like this.
>
>>
>> The organization of the numbered sections is confusing to me. The last
>> sentence of the intro suggests that the data licenses and other sections
>> below are subsections of metadata, but the numbers indicate otherwise, and
>> it’s not at all clear where the metadata section is meant to end. There is
>> also an allusion to an introduction for a “data organization” subsection
>> that seems to be between the metadata level and the examples of metadata.
>>
>
> The confusion with the numbers is may fault. Initially, the idea was to
> have Data Licences, Data Provenance and Data Quality as subsections of the
> metadata section. However, I was not sure if this was the best structure
> and then I created specific sections for these items.
>
> I'd like to know your opinion abou this: Should we keep Data Licences,
> Data Provenance and Data Quality as subsections of metadata or should we
> keep them in separate sections?
>
> Maybe, it is also early to make this decision...
>
>
>
>> In a larger issue, probably not something we can address in the current
>> draft, I’m not sure that the data lifecycle-based document structure is
>> very helpful in terms of finding a specific best practice. I’m finding it
>> difficult to guess where things are. In a way, everything should fit under
>> the rubric of best practices for data publication.
>>
>
> The idea of considering the lifecycle is because there will be best
> practices related to data usage, feedback and preservation. I think that
> these tasks are not part of data publication. @Annette, Does it make sense
> for you?
>
> I'm gonna write the intro of Section 6 and its subsections, and maybe its
> gonna be more clear.
>
> kind regards,
> Bernadette
>
>
>
>
>
>>
>> -Annette
>>
>>
>> --
>> Annette Greiner
>> NERSC Data and Analytics Services
>> Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
>> 510-495-2935
>>
>> On Dec 5, 2014, at 9:38 AM, Laufer <laufer@globo.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hello all,
>>
>> I wrote a description for the beginning of the metadata section and I
>> want to ask the group to comment:
>>
>> http://w3c.github.io/dwbp/bp.html#metadata
>>
>> Thank you.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Laufer
>>
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> Bernadette Farias Lóscio
> Centro de Informática
> Universidade Federal de Pernambuco - UFPE, Brazil
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