Re: Planning to close Semantic HTML-vocabulary Community Group due to inactivity unless we hear from you

Hi Flores,

> On Apr 3, 2026, at 4:28 AM, Bakker, F (Flores) (BZ/BBH) <f.bakker@minfin.nl> wrote:
> 
> Hi there,
> 
> Yes, the group is still active. 
> 
> Here are the answers for your questions.
> 
> * Is your group publishing any Specifications?
> 
> Yes we have already, the latest version was published on the 17th of November 2025, see:
> 
> https://floresbakker.github.io/htmlvoc/

Since you are the Chair I would ask that you record that publication in the W3C system so that it is easy to find.
When you are logged into the WordPress instance for your group, you’ll see a “Publish” button and you should be able
to go from there.

I note that the spec is living at your personal GitHub organization. We are happy to create a repository for this group
in the w3c-cg organization. If you would like me to set up w3c-cg/htmlvoc let me know. You can then migrate the group’s
specification to that repo.

Can you say whether the group is having any conversations (e.g., in other for outside the group’s mailing list or your GitHub repo)?

> 
> * What is the group's expectation about future standardization of
>  those Specifications at W3C or at some other standards body?
> 
> Discussions with W3C have taken place in the past; we showed that we have multiple successful implementations of our proposed standard, including the use case of generated budget documents at the Dutch Ministry of Finance and OntoReSpec (see https://github.com/floresbakker/OntoReSpec), RDF-based open source tooling to generate ReSpec specification documents for ontologies. In these instances the RDF-based HTML vocabulary is used. There are in the meantime new implementations that have not yet been shared though. Feedback from W3C entailed that we should look for broad adoption across the community. This message was forwarded in the latest community group meeting (dec 2024) where we asked our participants to apply the vocabulary in their own use cases. Unfortunately, in 2025 no meeting was scheduled to review the results due to my own work load as an enterprise architect at the Dutch ministry of Finance. This year we will pick up the meetings again. Goal is to establish broad adoption and move forward with the standardization track. 
> 
> Any assistance of W3C in this is welcome.

It would be helpful to understand if there is still active community discussion about this work. Thank you,

Ian


> 
> With kind regards,
>  
> Flores Bakker
> Chair of the community group
> 
> 
> -----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
> Van: Team Community Process <team-community-process@w3.org> 
> Verzonden: donderdag 2 april 2026 19:52
> Aan: public-htmlvoc@w3.org
> Onderwerp: Planning to close Semantic HTML-vocabulary Community Group due to inactivity unless we hear from you
> 
> Dear participants in the
> 
>   Semantic HTML-vocabulary Community Group
>   https://www.w3.org/community/htmlvoc/
> 
> Your Community Group appears to have become inactive (per [1]).
> 
> If your group is in fact active, we ask that you respond to this email with answers to these two questions:
> 
> * Is your group publishing any Specifications?
> * What is the group's expectation about future standardization of
>  those Specifications at W3C or at some other standards body?
> 
> We also recommend the following:
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> * Let us know where the activity is going on so that we can update our
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> * Update your group home page with news of your activities.  Chairs
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> 
> If you would like us to keep the group open because you expect it to become active in the near future or for other compelling reasons, just let us know.
> 
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> Thank you,
> 
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> [1] https://www.w3.org/community/about/faq/#close-inactive
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