- From: Thomas Baker <tom@tombaker.org>
- Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2019 12:07:45 +0200
- To: public-dxwg-wg <public-dxwg-wg@w3.org>
Dear all, I would like to propose a clarification of priorities for this working group. On every call, we remind ourselves that finishing CONNEG and DCAT are the top priorities, which is why we resolved on May 21 to request a six-month extension. Work on DCAT does appear to be moving forward nicely in a sub-group. However, I am worried about CONNEG. I posted a number of substantive comments about CONNEG to the public-dxwg-comments list eight weeks ago [1], and I still see no public response or even acknowledgement that the comments are being addressed. The Github log for CONNEG shows that there have been no changes to CONNEG since April 23 [2]. "Dublin Core Terms" has not even been corrected to read "DCMI Metadata Terms" -- a simple erratum that is so easily fixed. About 40% of the vertical space in the CONNEG draft is still taken up with 34 red boxes linking to open issues and 11 light blue boxes with issue discussion. Then there is the unresolved issue of defining "profile". The definition of "profile" in CONNEG [3] (and in parts of DCAT) still reads: "A named set of constraints..." -- a definition that I still find deeply flawed (e.g., [4,5]). DCAT and CONNEG must be about profiles as they currently exist; if they were not, they would not meet the criteria for W3C Recommendations. Indeed, we resolved on Tuesday's call to focus on definitions of profile "as they _are now_ for CONNEG and DCAT. Discussion of what profiles could, should, or might be in the future (e.g., the Profiles Vocabulary) should not distract this group from adopting a readable definition of "profile" and keeping its focus on publishing DCAT and CONNEG. I have proposed a definition that, in my opinion, fits the concept of real profiles as they exist today [6,8]. The definition appears to have the support of a majority of active WG participants. I have updated the proposal at [8]. I invite members of this group to informally indicate their support with upvotes. Tom [1] https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-dxwg-comments/2019May/0001.html [2] https://github.com/w3c/dxwg/commits/gh-pages/conneg-by-ap/index.html [3] https://w3c.github.io/dxwg/conneg-by-ap/#definitions [4] https://github.com/w3c/dxwg/issues/963#issuecomment-507188969 [5] https://github.com/w3c/dxwg/issues/963#issuecomment-507848654 [6] https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-dxwg-wg/2019Jul/0201.html [7] https://www.w3.org/2019/05/21-dxwg-minutes#x13 [8] https://github.com/w3c/dxwg/issues/963#issuecomment-509994999 -- Tom Baker <tom@tombaker.org>
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