Re: \ODRL February 2024 Meeting Notes

Thank you. Happy to see you all.

On ODRL Community Vocabulary namespace (based on my comment in the Zoom
chat):

For community vocabulary namespace idea, we may learn from namespaces of
these projects:

- tf.experimental - Tensorflow uses "experimental" to "indicates that the
said class/method is in early development, incomplete, or less commonly,
not up-to-standards. It's a collection of user contributions which weren't
yet integrated w/ main TensorFlow, but are still available as a part of
open-source for users to test and give feedback." [1] (*not an official
explanation)

- skimage.future - scikit-image uses "future" for something that might be
included in the package in the future at some point. "Although you can
count on the functions in this package being around in the future, the API
may change with any version update and will not follow the skimage
two-version deprecation path. Therefore, use the functions herein with
care, and do not use them in production code that will depend on updated
skimage versions." [2]

- clojure.contrib - Clojure uses "contrib" for open-source libraries hosted
by but not owned by the Clojure project. Historically, these libs use
"clojure.contrib" namespace but no longer. "They vary widely in development
activity and quality and may or may not be the best alternative for their
functionality in the overall ecosystem. You should evaluate them before use
as you would any open source library you intend to use as a dependency." [3]

Basically, these separated namespaces are/were use to signal the use of the
API that the API can be changed in an unplanned way or will not eventually
graduate to the official API.

Build upon those examples, we could have some candidates like
- odrl.community or
- odrl-community or
- something shorter (if OBO namespace policy [4] is being considered)

[1]
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/58333491/what-does-experimental-in-tensorflow-mean

[2] https://scikit-image.org/docs/stable/api/skimage.future.html

[3] https://clojure.org/dev/contrib_libs

[4] http://obofoundry.org/principles/fp-003-uris.html

Regards,
Art


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