Re: Text suggestions for recent comments

Hi Phil,

Thanks a lot for your suggestions and improvements!

We're gonna update the document and send messages to the commenters asking
for their feedback.

Cheers,
Berna

2016-06-17 12:41 GMT-03:00 Phil Archer <phila@w3.org>:

> As promised in today's meeting, I'd like to suggest some comments and
> minor amendments to the proposals in the wiki [1]
>
>
> Comment 1 - I agree with the proposal.
>
>
> In Comment 2, Ivan asks for a reference to the CSVW work, which I agree is
> good to add. The para chosen for the addition is from the intro:
>
> The Best Practices proposed in this document are intended to serve a more
> general purpose than the practices suggested in, for example, Best
> Practices for Publishing Linked Data [LD-BP] since DWBP is
> domain-independent. Whilst DWBP recommends the use of Linked Data, it also
> promotes best practices for data on the Web in other open formats such as
> CSV.
>
> The current proposal is to add a reference to the CSVW Primer - good, but
> I think it needs a linking sentence so that we have:
>
> ... DWBP recommends the use of Linked Data, it also promotes best
> practices for data on the Web in other open formats such as CSV. Methods
> for sharing tabular data, including CSV files, in a way that maximizes the
> potential of the Web to make links between data points, are described in
> the Tabular Data Primer [[Tabular-Data-Primer]].
>
>
> Comments 3, 4 & 5 - OK.
>
>
> Comment 6.
>
> I think Andrea makes a good point and it's a good hook for the DUV.
> Indeed, the high frequency of data publishers who require registration was
> a key motivation for the development of the DUV in the first place. Reading
> the intro to the access section, where it is proposed to address his point,
> I think it can go higher up than suggested. And I also note that the first
> paragraph is a little confused so I offer this alternative:
>
> ===Begins===
> <p>Providing easy access to data on the Web enables both humans and
> machines to take advantage of the benefits of sharing data using the Web
> infrastructure. By default, the Web offers access using Hypertext Transfer
> Protocol (HTTP) methods. This provides access to data at an atomic
> transaction level. This might be through the simple bulk download of a file
> or, where data is distributed across multiple files or requires more
> sophisticated retrieval methods, through an API. The two basic methods,
> bulk download and API, are not mutually exclusive.</p>
>
> <p>For some data publishers, it is important to know who has downloaded
> the data and how they have used it. There are two possible approaches to
> gathering this information. First, publishers can <em>invite</em> users to
> provide it, the user's motivation for doing so being that it encourages the
> continued publication of the data and promotes their own work. The Dataset
> Usage Vocabulary [[Vocab-DQV]] provides a structure for doing this. A
> second and less user-friendly approach is to require registration before
> data is accessed. In this case, the publisher should explain why and how
> information gathered from users (either explicitly or implicitly) will be
> used. Without a clear policy users might be fearful of providing
> information and thus the value of the dataset is reduced.</p>
>
> <p>In the bulk download approach, bulk data is generally...
>
> === Ends ===
>
> *Although* I would delete the second instance of the word bulk in that
> existing para so it just reads: "In the bulk download approach, data is
> generally pre-processed server side where multiple files or directory trees
> of files are provided as one downloadable file."
>
> Comment 7 & 8 - OK.
>
> HTH
>
> Phil
>
> For tracker, this is action-285
>
>
>
> [1]
> https://www.w3.org/2013/dwbp/wiki/Status_of_comments_about_the_last_call_working_draft
>
>
> --
>
>
> Phil Archer
> W3C Data Activity Lead
> http://www.w3.org/2013/data/
>
> http://philarcher.org
> +44 (0)7887 767755
> @philarcher1
>



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Bernadette Farias Lóscio
Centro de Informática
Universidade Federal de Pernambuco - UFPE, Brazil
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