- From: Alistair Miles <a.j.miles@rl.ac.uk>
- Date: Wed, 08 Feb 2006 17:15:46 +0000
- To: SW Best Practices <public-swbp-wg@w3.org>
Hi all, The SWBPD-WG has asked for a 3 month charter extension to finish off a couple of documents and draft a charter for subsequent activities, which would take us up to 31 April. Continued SKOS work will feature in subsequent activities, most likely as a recommendation track work item. So how could we best use the time to 31 April? One option is to plan a 3rd review and publish 3rd public working drafts of the SKOS Core Guide and SKOS Core Vocabulary Specification. If we did this, I'd suggest we don't aim to be too ambitious, but go for changes like the extensions appendix, for which we know there is an immediate demand. Note that the chairs have indicated that the current SKOS WDs are quite sufficient as input to recommendation track work, so there is no necessity for us to publish 3rd public working drafts. Another option is to begin drafting a use cases and requirements document. The fundamental requirements and use cases driving design of SKOS Core have until now been implicit, and I think it would help to focus design goals if we attempt to articulate them. This would also greatly help scoping of rec track work. OWL has a 'requirements and use cases' document [1], as does SPARQL [2] - I haven't read these yet but I plan to :) Speaking personally, I'd rather put my effort into a use cases and requirements document. I'm currently finishing off a masters course, and only have a limited amount of time to devote to SKOS over the next 3 months. Whatever we decide, we can of course continue to develop and discuss the SKOS Core proposals/issues list [3]. Cheers, Al. [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/webont-req/ [2] http://www.w3.org/TR/rdf-dawg-uc/ [3] http://www.w3.org/2004/02/skos/core/proposals -- Alistair Miles Research Associate CCLRC - Rutherford Appleton Laboratory Building R1 Room 1.60 Fermi Avenue Chilton Didcot Oxfordshire OX11 0QX United Kingdom Email: a.j.miles@rl.ac.uk Tel: +44 (0)1235 445440
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