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

I'm totally on Phil's side here and vote for option 1 too.

On 13.08.2013 21:41, Phil Ritchie wrote:
> My vote is for Option 1.
>
> [I am a man of few words ;-) ]
>
> I think it is important we put a (non-binding) marker in the ground and
> move forward. I would imagine that the number of implementations (or
> currently in-development implementations) is small and thus the opportunity
> to be "flight of foot" whilst legacy is minimal.
>
> Phil
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>
>
> On 12 Aug 2013, at 07:43, "Felix Sasaki" <fsasaki@w3.org> wrote:
>
>> 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
>>
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