Re: New Data Science Community [via Electronic Governance Community Group]

re: "all content is data"
I can live with that, provided that all RESTful API's undefine language 
proactively per the XML/HTML/XHTML specification.  
http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema-2/#language

Domains federalized by name/concept are abstract communities and have *any* 
terminology language (2 character*): xml:lang="".  This is not a trivial point, because a RESTful API, if not language agnostic, defines a 
community subset (audience) as the whole community (aka "preaching to 
the choir").  This is something a "Data Science Community" should not 
do, IMHO.

Concrete example: government entities put out data in just a few languages. 
American government web sites are mostly in English with some Spanish.  
Americans speak many languages at home, however. (American Community 
Survey: http://www.census.gov/hhes/socdemo/language/).  So who is the Federal Government dataset RESTful API audience ? "Public Access"=true entails xml:lang="", IMHO


What does the Data Science Community think about this ?

--Gannon


* The 3 Letter Codes (Bibliographic Languages are a can of worms, they do identify a language spoken-by community)





________________________________
 From: Brand Niemann <bniemann@cox.net>
To: public-egovernance@w3.org 
Sent: Tuesday, September 3, 2013 8:16 AM
Subject: New Data Science Community [via Electronic Governance Community Group]
 

Here is how our new Data Science Community could operate like the Data Science
DC and Data Community DC with Meetups:
 http://semanticommunity.info/Data_Science/Data_Science_DC Conferences:
 http://www.afei.org/events/3A03/Pages/default.aspx Tools and Public Data Sets:
http://semanticommunity.info/Data_Science/Data_Community_DC and Job
Announcements:
http://semanticommunity.info/Data_Science/CapitalOne#CapitolOne_Labs



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