Re: Proposed W3C Charters: 'Data on the Web Best Practices Working Group' and 'CSV on the Web Working Group' (until 2013-11-24)

Hi David,

It's true that the Best Practices document will not define any new 
technical standards, but it will present a series of dos and don'ts that 
can be followed. Examples of where we've done this before include the 
Mobile Web Best Practices [1] and WCAG [2].

The intention is that, like WCAG, it will be something that can be cited 
in official policies. The scope of the WG covers scientific data, 
cultural heritage data and government data and it's the last of these in 
particular that means we need to have something that has been through an 
open standards process that can support government policies.

CR exit criteria for the document will be that each best practice is 
cited in at least two official policies (from any of the three sectors). 
This is a target I am confident in reaching, not least because parallel 
to the WG there will be a European Commission funded project that 
includes parters from 25 countries who are all committed to writing such 
policies, i.e. "this is how you implement the W3C Data on the Web Best 
Practices in Austria, France, Lithuania, Slovakia etc. etc."

 From an applications developer perspective, the aim is to improve the 
predictability of data on the Web in terms of formats, metadata and 
reliability. The CSV on the Web WG is a key part of that as it's about 
making tabular data more interoperable, but the Best Practices is where 
it will likely say "you should provide metadata for your CSV files thus..."

I'll be at TPAC if you want to go deeper into this.

HTH

Phil.

[1] http://www.w3.org/TR/mobile-bp/
[2] http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG/

On 18/10/2013 01:08, Ian Jacobs wrote:
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> On Oct 17, 2013, at 6:31 PM, David Singer <singer@apple.com> wrote:
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>> On Oct 14, 2013, at 2:42 , Coralie Mercier <coralie@w3.org> wrote:
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>>> Data on the Web Best Practices Working Group:
>>> http://www.w3.org/2013/05/odbp-charter.html
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>> I guess I am a little puzzled that this is a WG, and that a 'best practices' document (which would not seem to therefore have normative text, by implication) would be on the Rec track:
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>> "Deliverable: Data on the Web Best Practices (Recommendation)"
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>> Can anyone enlighten me?
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> [Adding Phil Archer for assistance]
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> Ian
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>> David Singer
>> Multimedia and Software Standards, Apple Inc.
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Received on Tuesday, 22 October 2013 08:38:45 UTC