Fwd: On Vocabulary Draft and Schema.org

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Subject: On Vocabulary Draft and Schema.org
Resent-Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2014 18:23:53 +0000
Resent-From: public-socialweb@w3.org
Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2014 19:23:44 +0100
From: Harry Halpin <hhalpin@w3.org>
To: public-socialweb@w3.org <public-socialweb@w3.org>

We've been discussing this internally inside W3C.

We think it's fine to go forward *if* the URIs that overlap with
schema.org are clearly demarcated as such and due credit is given.
There's a few options here, and James can chose whatever way he likes:

We can either add a note that for overlapping names, the namespace is
"to be determined".  If the WG prefers, one can also to say for terms
that have overlap: "these terms are spelled and have the same
definitions as the identical terms in schema.org" or "these terms are
the term  as defined by schema.org on yyyy-mm-dd"

What we don't want is copying from schema.org that is unattributed or
seems to be a "fork" of schema.org without due acknowledgement.

By the time this has to hit Last Call/CR, we should have the
relationship with schema.org more clear and this should make life easier
for all involved, ideally so that we can refer to schema.org URIs
directly and re-use them re a stable normative reference.

   cheers,
      harry

P.S.: Apologies re last meeting, was dealing with European Commission,
who renewed our funding for working on the Social Web for next year!

Received on Friday, 19 December 2014 18:39:18 UTC