- From: Tim Berners-Lee <timbl@w3.org>
- Date: Fri, 6 May 2005 10:52:28 -0400
- To: "Ralph R. Swick" <swick@w3.org>
- Cc: w3t-comm@w3.org, Danny <djweitzner@w3.org>, webreq@w3.org, steve@w3.org, w3t-qa@w3.org, chairs@w3.org, public-swbp-wg@w3.org
Ok by me. Tim On May 5, 2005, at 15:20, Ralph R. Swick wrote: > 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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