Re: [SKOS] help editing SKOS Primer and SKOS Semantics

Are there any plans of relating this back to the use cases we 
recently created? Would be good if the communities represented in 
that document could see that SKOS will be useful to them through the primer.

Daniel

At 10:06 AM 10/3/2007, Ed Summers wrote:

>I would be willing to lend a hand too. Given my place of $work I'm 
>particularly interested in helping make SKOS accessible to people in 
>the library and archival communities. So perhaps I could contribute 
>to the Primer effort? I imagine that working on the Primer would 
>involve close monitoring of the Semantics document, which would be 
>good for me since I want to thoroughly understand it as well.
>
>//Ed
>
> >>> "Miles, AJ (Alistair)" <A.J.Miles@rl.ac.uk> 10/03/07 7:44 AM >>>
>
>Hi all,
>
>At the telecon yesterday Guus asked me if I wanted any help editing 
>the SKOS Primer and SKOS Semantics. Let me say, very 
>enthusiastically, that I would love to have co-editors for either or 
>both of these documents!
>
>I think they will both be exciting and challenging documents to 
>create, and for different reasons.
>
>The SKOS Primer will have to be very approachable, written in a 
>style which is easy to understand for a not-too-technical reader, 
>with lots of examples and pictures. This is the document which 
>"tells the story" to a wide audience. The challenge here is to 
>present all of the features of SKOS in a really plain and simple 
>way. The challenge is also to write prose which is easy for 
>non-native English speakers to understand, and which is easy to 
>translate into other languages. I've lost count of the number of 
>different countries from which I've received emails about SKOS, and 
>mostly from non-"Western" countries. We already have translations of 
>SKOS labels and definitions in 6 languages.
>
>The SKOS Semantics will have to be, as they say, a "water-tight" 
>specification of the formal semantics of the SKOS vocabulary, and of 
>any other normative aspects of SKOS. This is the foundation for all 
>other specifications, and the basis for software implementations. 
>The challenge here is to construct a simple, elegant and extensible 
>normative specification, removing any ambiguity where it might cause 
>a problem, but also allowing for flexibility and extensibility where 
>that might be valuable or required. The RDF Semantics is, I think, a 
>really good example of such a specification.
>
>I look forward to working with you :)
>
>Cheers,
>
>Alistair.
>
>--
>Alistair Miles
>Research Associate
>Science and Technology Facilities Council
>Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
>Harwell Science and Innovation Campus
>Didcot
>Oxfordshire OX11 0QX
>United Kingdom
>Web: http://purl.org/net/aliman
>Email: a.j.miles@rl.ac.uk
>Tel: +44 (0)1235 445440

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