Re: transition request: first public WD of SKOS Core

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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