- From: Thomas Baker <baker@sub.uni-goettingen.de>
- Date: Mon, 4 Dec 2006 19:02:00 +0100
- To: SWIG <semantic-web@w3.org>
- Cc: SWD Working Group <public-swd-wg@w3.org>
Among the chartered deliverables of the W3C Semantic Web Deployment Working Group [1, 2, 3] is a best-practice document tentatively called "Basic Principles for Managing an RDF Vocabulary". Starting point for this work will be an early draft [4] produced by the former Semantic Web Best Practice and Deployment Working Group. The abstract of the draft says: [[ This document articulates some basic principles of good practice for managing an RDF vocabulary. Following these principles makes an RDF vocabulary "usable": new users learn quickly how to use the vocabulary, and a relationship of trust is built between the user community and the vocabulary developers/maintainers. This promotes growth of a user community, which generates more feedback for the developers/maintainers, leading to further improvements in quality and usability. ]] Principles may include: Identify your terms with URIs. Provide readable documentation. Articulate your maintenance policies. Identify versions. Publish a formal schema. (The related SWD deliverable "Best Practice Recipes for Publishing RDF Vocabularies" [5] provides guidance on the latter.) We would welcome input from the community on this, both through comments on the first draft [6] and through participation in the SWD Working Group. Please feel free to contact the chairs for more information. Tom Baker also on behalf of Guus Schreiber co-chairs of the Semantic Web Deployment Working Group [1] SWD home page: http://www.w3.org/2006/07/SWD/ [2] SWD charter: http://www.w3.org/2006/07/swdwg-charter [3] SWD deliverables: http://www.w3.org/2006/07/SWD/wiki/Deliverables [4] Vocabulary principles: http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/BestPractices/VM/principles/20050705 [5] Vocabulary recipes: http://www.w3.org/TR/swbp-vocab-pub/ [6] SWD mailing list: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-swd-wg/ -- Tom Baker - tbaker@tbaker.de - baker@sub.uni-goettingen.de
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