[Relevant for all] options for the RDF representation of ITS 2.0

Hi all,

this mail is relevant for the general progress of ITS 2.0. Please have a 
look even if you are not interested in the RDF representation of ITS 2.0.

At
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-multilingualweb-lt/2013Aug/0009.html

I had explained changes to be done to move ITS 2.0. forward. The change 
"make NIF a *non* normative reference" is actually just one option to 
reply to this requirement from our charter
http://www.w3.org/2012/09/mlw-lt-charter.html

"The MultilingualWeb-LT WG will assure that the metadata approach being 
developed is allowing a conversion to RDF, to foster integration of 
MultilingualWeb-LT metadata into the Semantic Web."

This requirement does not say that we define a normative approach to 
allow for that conversion. My mail at
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-multilingualweb-lt/2013Aug/0009.html
was suggesting to use NIF as the non normative approach.

With this mail I want to bring all options clearly in front of the 
working group and see what you think. Please have a look at let's decide 
on Wednesday how to move forward. Until then, the edit announced in the 
0009 mail is on hold.

So the options are

1) Have a non-normative reference to NIF, as suggested in the 0009 mail



2) Intent to have a standardized, that is normative RDF representation 
of ITS2. This could then not be NIF. It could be


2a) something based on NIF, e.g. moving the six URIs that we rely on (+ 
the ontology file?)

          1. 
http://persistence.uni-leipzig.org/nlp2rdf/ontologies/nif-core#Context
          2. 
http://persistence.uni-leipzig.org/nlp2rdf/ontologies/nif-core#RFC5147String
          3. 
http://persistence.uni-leipzig.org/nlp2rdf/ontologies/nif-core#beginIndex
          4. 
http://persistence.uni-leipzig.org/nlp2rdf/ontologies/nif-core#endIndex
          5. 
http://persistence.uni-leipzig.org/nlp2rdf/ontologies/nif-core#referenceContext
          6. 
http://persistence.uni-leipzig.org/nlp2rdf/ontologies/nif-core#isString
          7. The ontology file that defines these URIs (= RDF classes +
             properties)
http://persistence.uni-leipzig.org/nlp2rdf/ontologies/nif-core/version-1.0/nif-core.ttl

into the W3C namespace and define the URIs + the ontology as normative 
part of ITS2. But it could also be


2b) something completely different, yet to be defined. Issue 
https://www.w3.org/International/multilingualweb/lt/track/issues/18 made 
clear that it cannot be RDFa.


Above options are hard to evaluate since we have the EU funding based 
timeline. But to move forward we need a working group opinion. Please 
state your thoughts in this thread.

Best,

Felix

Received on Monday, 12 August 2013 06:43:13 UTC