- From: Ralph R. Swick <swick@w3.org>
- Date: Thu, 05 May 2005 15:20:24 -0400
- To: timbl@w3.org, steve@w3.org
- Cc: Danny <djweitzner@w3.org>, w3t-comm@w3.org, w3t-qa@w3.org, webreq@w3.org, chairs@w3.org, public-swbp-wg@w3.org
On behalf of the Semantic Web Best Practice Working Group and its co-chairs, I hereby make this transition requeest to First Public Working Draft transition of a set of three documents on porting thesaurii to the Semantic Web. Document title SKOS Core Vocabulary Specification Document URI http://www.w3.org/2004/02/skos/core/spec/2005-05-04 Proposed shortname http://www.w3.org/TR/swbp-skos-core-spec Document title SKOS Core Guide Document URI http://www.w3.org/2004/02/skos/core/guide/2005-02-15 Proposed shortname http://www.w3.org/TR/swbp-skos-core-guide Document title Quick Guide to Publishing a Thesaurus on the Semantic Web Document URI http://www.w3.org/2004/03/thes-tf/primer/2005-05-04 Proposed shortname http://www.w3.org/TR/swbp-thesaurus-pubguide Estimated publication date 10 May Record of the group's decision to advance: The proposal to advance was mailed [1] to the WG 24 hours in advance of its regular biweekly telecon and the decision to request publication was resolved [2] by the WG at today's telecon. [1] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-swbp-wg/2005May/0014.html [2] http://www.w3.org/2005/05/05-swbp-irc#T17-18-10 The abstracts and status sections of these three documents are reproduced below: SKOS Core Vocabulary Specification Abstract SKOS Core is a model for expressing the structure and content of concept schemes (thesauri, classification schemes, subject heading lists, taxonomies, terminologies, glossaries and other types of controlled vocabulary). The SKOS Core Vocabulary is an application of the Resource Description Framework (RDF), that can be used to express a concept scheme as an RDF graph. Using RDF allows data to be linked to and/or merged with other RDF data by semantic web applications. This document gives a reference-style overview of the SKOS Core Vocabulary as it stands at the time of publication. It also describes the policies for ownership, naming, persistence and change by which the SKOS Core Vocabulary is managed. Status of this Document This document is an Editor's Draft for review by the Semantic Web Best Practices and Deployment Working Group (hereafter 'the Working Group') and the participants of the public-esw-thes@w3.org mailing list and is subject to change without notice. This document has no formal standing within W3C. Please consult the Working Group's home page and the W3C technical reports index for information about the latest publications by this group. This document may be updated, replaced or obsoleted by other documents at any time. It is inappropriate to cite this document as other than work in progress. This document is published by the Semantic Web Best Practices and Deployment Working Group, part of the W3C Semantic Web Activity. The Working Group intends the SKOS Core Vocabulary Specification to become a W3C Working Group Note (see [http://www.w3.org/2004/02/Process-20040205/tr.html#maturity-levels]). However, other outcomes are possible within the framework of the W3C process (see [http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Process/]) and will be considered in response to deployment experience and feedback from the W3C membership. The Working Group has discussed the potential for SKOS Core to evolve into possible future W3C Recommendation Track work items, and would value feedback on the level of formal standardization that is appropriate. We encourage public comments. Please send comments to public-esw-thes@w3.org [archive] and start the subject line of the message with "comment:". Publication as a Working Draft does not imply endorsement by the W3C Membership. SKOS Core Guide Abstract SKOS Core provides a model for expressing the basic structure and content of concept schemes (thesauri, classification schemes, subject heading lists, taxonomies, terminologies, glossaries and other types of controlled vocabulary). The SKOS Core Vocabulary is an application of the Resource Description Framework (RDF), that can be used to express a concept scheme as an RDF graph. Using RDF allows data to be linked to and/or merged with other RDF data by semantic web applications. This document is a guide using the SKOS Core Vocabulary, for readers who already have a basic understanding of RDF concepts. Status of this Document This document is an Editor's Draft for review by the Semantic Web Best Practices and Deployment Working Group (hereafter 'the Working Group') and the participants of the public-esw-thes@w3.org mailing list and is subject to change without notice. This document has no formal standing within W3C. Please consult the Working Group's home page and the W3C technical reports index for information about the latest publications by this group. This document may be updated, replaced or obsoleted by other documents at any time. It is inappropriate to cite this document as other than work in progress. This document is published by the Semantic Web Best Practices and Deployment Working Group, part of the W3C Semantic Web Activity. The Working Group intends the SKOS Core Guide to become a W3C Working Group Note (see [http://www.w3.org/2004/02/Process-20040205/tr.html#maturity-levels]). However, other outcomes are possible within the framework of the W3C process (see [http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Process/]) and will be considered in response to deployment experience and feedback from the W3C membership. The Working Group has discussed the potential for SKOS Core to evolve into possible future W3C Recommendation Track work items, and would value feedback on the level of formal standardization that is appropriate. We encourage public comments. Please send comments to public-esw-thes@w3.org [archive] and start the subject line of the message with "comment:". Publication as a Working Draft does not imply endorsement by the W3C Membership. Quick Guide to Publishing a Thesaurus on the Semantic Web Abstract This document describes in brief how to express the content and structure of a thesaurus, and metadata about a thesaurus, in RDF. Using RDF allows data to be linked to and/or merged with other RDF data by semantic web applications. The Semantic Web, which is based on the Resource Description Framework (RDF), provides a common framework that allows data to be shared and reused across application, enterprise, and community boundaries. Status of this Document This document is an Editor's Draft for review by the Semantic Web Best Practices and Deployment Working Group (hereafter 'the Working Group') and the participants of the public-esw-thes@w3.org mailing list and is subject to change without notice. This document has no formal standing within W3C. Please consult the Working Group's home page and the W3C technical reports index for information about the latest publications by this group. This document may be updated, replaced or obsoleted by other documents at any time. It is inappropriate to cite this document as other than work in progress. This document is published by the Semantic Web Best Practices and Deployment Working Group, part of the W3C Semantic Web Activity. The Working Group intends the Quick Guide to Publishing a Thesaurus on the Semantic Web to become a W3C Working Group Note. We encourage public comments. Please send comments to public-esw-thes@w3.org [archive] and start the subject line of the message with "comment:". Publication as a Working Draft does not imply endorsement by the W3C Membership. -Ralph
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