Re: Best Practice 2 - Title and the use of the term format

I’m not sure that I’m understanding what this is. This is not a group deliverable, right? I’m not sure this is a good idea. (Doesn’t our charter specifically say that we won’t develop any new technologies?) 
I think it is a best practice to use formats with which others are likely to be familiar, so I would not recommend data publishers use a new format that we invent.
-Annette

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Annette Greiner
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On Jan 20, 2015, at 5:09 AM, Manuel.CARRASCO-BENITEZ@ec.europa.eu wrote:

> More, it should be *one* format for both.
> 
> Human and Machine Format (HMformat)
> http://dragoman.org/hmformat.html
> 
> Regards
> Tomas
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> From: Bernadette Farias Lóscio [mailto:bfl@cin.ufpe.br] 
> Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2015 2:03 PM
> To: Laufer
> Cc: DWBP WG
> Subject: Re: Best Practice 2 - Title and the use of the term format
> 
> Hi Laufer,
> 
> 
> I like your proposal for the the BP title. "Provide metadata for both
> humans and machines".
> 
> I'm gonna review the document to see where format is used and how it
> should be qualified.
> 
> Thanks,
> Bernadette
> 
> 2015-01-19 10:43 GMT-03:00 Laufer <laufer@globo.com>:
>> Hi all,
>> 
>> The term format is being used in the text in different contexts and can
>> confuse the reader.
>> 
>> The title of Best Practice 2 is: "Provide metadata in different formats"
>> 
>> Then we have a kind of subtitle: "Metadata should be provided for both
>> humans and machines"
>> 
>> So the formats are (I guess): human-readable; machine-readable.
>> 
>> In the text of BP2 we have: "Metadata for machines is best provided either
>> as an alternative representation of the Web page in a format such as Turtle
>> or JSON-LD (for RDF)...."
>> 
>> We have also file formats: XML, CSV, JSON...
>> 
>> Maybe we have to qualify the term format when we use it. So, Turtle is a
>> serialization format, CSV is a file format, etc.
>> 
>> ====
>> 
>> I propose a more straight title to BP2: "Provide metadata for both humans
>> and machines"
>> 
>> What do you think about this?
>> 
>> Best,
>> Laufer
>> 
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> Bernadette Farias Lóscio
> Centro de Informática
> Universidade Federal de Pernambuco - UFPE, Brazil
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