- From: Annette Greiner <amgreiner@lbl.gov>
- Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2015 10:57:35 -0800
- To: Manuel.CARRASCO-BENITEZ@ec.europa.eu
- Cc: bfl@cin.ufpe.br, laufer@globo.com, public-dwbp-wg@w3.org
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 -- Annette Greiner NERSC Data and Analytics Services Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory 510-495-2935 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 > > -----Original Message----- > 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 >> >> -- >> . . . .. . . >> . . . .. >> . .. . > > > > -- > Bernadette Farias Lóscio > Centro de Informática > Universidade Federal de Pernambuco - UFPE, Brazil > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- >
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