- From: Stella Dextre Clarke <sdclarke@lukehouse.demon.co.uk>
- Date: Mon, 9 Jul 2007 14:53:51 +0100
- To: <public-swd-wg@w3.org>
- Cc: "Miles, AJ \(Alistair\) " <A.J.Miles@rl.ac.uk>, "'Leonard Will'" <L.Will@willpowerinfo.co.uk>, "Nicolas Cochard" <ncochard@porism.com>, "'Ron Davies'" <ron@rondavies.be>, "'Alan Gilchrist'" <cura@fastnet.co.uk>
Some members of the W3C Semantic Web Deployment Working Group will already be aware of the ongoing work on BS 8723 "Structured vocabularies for information retrieval" a BSI standard which we hope will soon form the basis of revising ISO 2788 and ISO 5964. Although only the first two parts of it were published in 2005, Parts 3 and 4 are nearing completion, and Part 5 (the last part) is well advanced. Project ISO 25964 is just now getting under way, with the objective of revising the two existing ISO standards on this basis. At all stages the development work has kept an eye on the parallel development of SKOS. Some active SKOS collaborators have commented helpfully on our drafts, and our own team have tried to contribute to the SKOS discussions. So we hope there is already a substantial commonality of approach. BS 8723 Part 5 focuses specifically on exchange formats for interoperability, and alignment with SKOS becomes all the more important. As you can see from the development site at http://porism.tdmweb.co.uk/BS8723/, we hope to test the feasibility of mapping in both directions between our schema and SKOS (as well as other popular formats). Please be warned that all you see on that site constitutes work in progress, subject to change without notification. The model is not final, and changes to it affect the schema too. (There is even some possibility we might switch to an alternative schema, based on Zthes.) Despite this instability, I hope you can see good grounds for collaboration. Would it be possible to work even more closely together? Could interoperability with the BS8723 data model be considered a requirement for SKOS? Even if you judge this premature while our model is still under discussion, you might be able to suggest a more appropriate procedure? Any suggestion you have will be appreciated. Thanks Stella Dextre Clarke convenor, BSI committee IDT/2/2/1 ***************************************************** Stella Dextre Clarke Information Consultant Luke House, West Hendred, Wantage, Oxon, OX12 8RR, UK Tel: 01235-833-298 Fax: 01235-863-298 SDClarke@LukeHouse.demon.co.uk *****************************************************
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