The path to standardization at W3C

For those of you who haven't seen the mail below yet: W3C might set up a working group next year to standardize our technologies.

Phil Archer is the Data Activity Lead at W3C.


On Thursday, July 03, 2014 10:21 AM, Phil Archer wrote:
> Adrian, everyone
> 
> Thanks very much for this. As ever, if we can help we will. The
> barrier  to setting up a chartered WG (i.e. on that can create formal
> standards)  is pretty high, but (I hope) not insurmountable. In
> essence we need to  be sure that sufficient members are committed to
> participating in the WG  and that the spec will be implemented. That
> means we need:
> 
> - member support (membership counts);
> - implementation capacity.
> 
> Both of which flow from the demands of multiple stakeholders.
> 
> Now... RDF Interfaces looks like it might be in scope for something
> I'm  trying to cook up. The Data Activity is all about bridging
> technological  communities, making sure that, for example, non-SemWeb
> people (I know  it's hard to believe but there are such people ) can
> benefit from  semantics. In *that* context, I'm trying to find a path
> towards a WG  sometime next year that will help us move from data to
> APIs, tools,  frameworks etc. Markus Lanthaler's work on Hydra is
> relevant, as is the  Linked Data API, Linked Data Fragments and more.
> 
> So perhaps you can help me to help you.
> 
> Leaving aside the fact that we're stretched to breaking point in terms
> of staff availability ... I'm looking for ways in which we could
> establish something like a Semantic Web (or Linked Data) Access Group
> -  basically a group that defines a bucket full of stuff that means
> even  arch anti-Linked Data people will find useful and attractive.
> Something  that might bring SemWeb closer to Robin Berjon's vision
> (http://berjon.com/web-2024/). I don't agree with his statements about
> RDF, of course, but he's far from alone in his thinking.
> 
> Do you think that might be worth pursuing? And, if so, would RDF 
> Interfaces fit within that??
> 
> Comments, positive or negative, all welcome.
> 
> Phil.
> 
> -- 
> 
> Phil Archer
> W3C Data Activity Lead
> http://www.w3.org/2013/data/
> 
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