Re: references and acknowledgements …. (trumpet blowing)

Hi Jeremy,

The lack of acknowledgements in the currently published Concepts is a ReSpec issue and does not reflect any intention of the WG.  We will sort it.  Thank you for bringing it to our attention.

Regards,
Dave
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On Sep 6, 2013, at 16:16, Jeremy Carroll <jjc1729@gmail.com> wrote:

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> This is a comment on the current last call documents (concepts and semantics)
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> I note that there is no mention of Brian McBride's role in the previous round of specifications …
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> http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/RDFCore/20020617-f2f/
> "The WG decided that bwm will be "series editor" for the WG documents."
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> - obviously Brian is no longer fulfilling this role, but it is conventional to maintain some reference to former editors in the acknowledgements or somewhere.
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> I also note that Graham and I are not called out as former editors in the Concepts acknowledgements, in particular, the sentence: "The RDF 2004 editors acknowledge …" fails to mention who those editors were!
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> I am also slightly disappointed that there is no informative reference to Named Graphs, Provenance and Trust by Carroll, Bizer, Hayes & Stickler; with this I realize that the bar is much higher than with acknowledgements to former editors so my disappointment is lower!
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> Overall though I believe the documents may benefit from a review of the acknowledgements section by some member of the WG.
> 
> Jeremy
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