Re: Time Ontology and SSN ontology published as REC, WG is done!

Congrats everybody!

On 10/19/2017 05:41 AM, Linda van den Brink wrote:
>
> This is great, congrats to us all!
>
> *Van:*Bill Roberts [mailto:bill@swirrl.com]
> *Verzonden:* donderdag 19 oktober 2017 14:28
> *Aan:* Francois Daoust
> *CC:* public-sdw-wg@w3.org
> *Onderwerp:* Re: Time Ontology and SSN ontology published as REC, WG 
> is done!
>
> well done to all involved!
>
> On 19 October 2017 at 11:43, Francois Daoust <fd@w3.org 
> <mailto:fd@w3.org>> wrote:
>
> Hello participants of the Spatial Data on the Web Working Group,
>
> As forwarded by Armin in previous email, the Semantic Sensor Network 
> Ontology has been published as a final W3C Recommendation today, a 
> happy ending after a bumpy journey on the standardization track:
> https://www.w3.org/TR/2017/REC-vocab-ssn-20171019/
> https://www.w3.org/TR/vocab-ssn/
>
> But that's not the only good news for today. It so happens that the 
> Time Ontology in OWL specification has also been published as a W3C 
> Recommendation, another happy ending after a fairly long journey 
> started more than 10 years ago:
> https://www.w3.org/TR/2017/REC-owl-time-20171019/
> https://www.w3.org/TR/owl-time/
>
> The Working Group is now officially done, yoohoo! Congratulations to 
> everyone, chairs, editors, participants, external contributors, and 
> Phil without whom nothing would have happened!
>
> For all things practical, you can now consider the Working Group as 
> closed and you should all jump onto the Spatial Data on the Web 
> Interest Group, who will have its first call next week:
> https://www.w3.org/2017/sdwig/
> https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-sdwig/2017Oct/0001.html
>
> That said, due to a shortcoming in the W3C Process, which requires the 
> presence of a Working Group for spec maintenance, please note that we 
> will most likely keep the Spatial Data on the Web Working Group alive 
> for some time, with the expectation that it will not do anything on 
> top of being the entity that publishes possible errata on the specs. 
> The errata themselves should be discussed in the Interest Group.
>
> If all goes well, the 2018 version of the Process document will fix 
> the issue, and the Working Group can be properly closed then.
>
> Thanks,
> Francois.
>

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