Re: please review: draft W3C SWIG Note 'Vocabulary of Interlinked Datasets' (voiD)

myc2 as a next implementer.

I think the problem can be solved in a not too difficult way yet in a
very positive one.

Dcat for the general dataset terms and Void for the RDF/Linked data aspects.
the merge can probably take no more than 1 day of work ? but please do
decide on 1 way to say things (And the final format e.g. RDF vs CSV
doesnt seem a good reason to use an ontology vs another to describe
e.g. the subject keywords of the dataset)

cheers
Giovanni

On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 3:07 PM, Michael Hausenblas
<michael.hausenblas@deri.org> wrote:
>
> Thomas,
>
>> voidD has been seriously improved by this note.
>
> Thanks!
>
>> However, there has been some discussion earlier about how it relates to
>> DCAT [1] and vice versa.
>
> Acknowledged. We have a respective issue for this [1] and, given that
> Richard is active in both DCAT and voiD, it should be possible to address
> this.
>
>> There is a lot of overlap, and early adopters might feel puzzled which
>> one to use or how to put both together.
>> At least one of the two should should address this somehow, don't you think?
>
> In general it is simple. If the data you describe is an RDF dataset, use
> voiD. If you want to describe any other kind of data (such as CSV, etc.),
> use DCAT. This rule of thumb should help.
>
> I admit there are corner cases where it is not as easy to decide what to use
> (for example in the case where data is offered in both RDF and CSV), but as
> I said earlier, we are aware of the issue and are working on a solution.
>
> The idea is, as with all of the features, that we first have a look at what
> the community does (how it is used, which good practices emerge, etc.) and
> then try to come up with an advice.
>
> Would this work for you?
>
> Thanks again for your time and the feedback provided!
>
> Cheers,
>      Michael
>
> [1] http://code.google.com/p/void-impl/issues/detail?id=63
>
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>
>> From: Thomas Bandholtz <thomas.bandholtz@innoq.com>
>> Date: Tue, 04 Jan 2011 14:54:44 +0100
>> To: Dan Brickley <danbri@danbri.org>
>> Cc: Semantic Web community <semantic-web@w3.org>
>> Subject: Re: please review: draft W3C SWIG Note 'Vocabulary of Interlinked
>> Datasets' (voiD)
>> Resent-From: Semantic Web community <semantic-web@w3.org>
>> Resent-Date: Tue, 04 Jan 2011 13:56:55 +0000
>>
>> Dan,
>>
>> voidD has been seriously improved by this note.
>> However, there has been some discussion earlier about how it relates to
>> DCAT [1] and vice versa.
>> There is a lot of overlap, and early adopters might feel puzzled which
>> one to use or how to put both together.
>> At least one of the two should should address this somehow, don't you think?
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Thomas
>>
>> [1] http://www.w3.org/egov/wiki/Data_Catalog_Vocabulary
>>
>> Am 16.12.2010 15:35, schrieb Dan Brickley:
>>> Dear Semantic Web Interest Group,
>>>
>>> As you might recall, semantic-web@w3.org is the home list of W3C's
>>> Semantic Web Interest Group. Unlike other more industrious groups we
>>> exist primarily as a discussion forum. However, occasionally some of
>>> us get together and collaborate, and these collaborations can give
>>> rise to W3C Notes (eg. from a while back, http://www.w3.org/TR/rdfcal/
>>> ). So, several SWIG members have been collaborating (in an open and
>>> public way) on something called 'voiD', and have produced a draft of a
>>> SWIG Note, details below. The voiD work addresses issues around RDF
>>> dataset description and discovery, and I'm very pleased to propose it
>>> as a W3C SWIG Note.
>>>
>>> We don't have a very rigid process for these notes, but they are
>>> useful to do, and we should perhaps do them more often.  I've asked
>>> the voiD team to give a brief outline of the work, and we suggest a
>>> deadline of end of January 2011 for feedback comments. There is a
>>> snapshot 'Editor's Draft' for review in SWIG space at W3C [8] below,
>>> http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/interest/void/ and discussion is welcomed
>>> here on semantic-web@w3.org
>>>
>>> So thanks to Keith Alexander, Richard Cyganiak, Michael Hausenblas,
>>> Jun Zhao for their hard work on all this, and to you all in advance
>>> for your reviews and feedback. Assuming no major issues are found, we
>>> should be able to proceed with publishing it as a W3C Note during
>>> February.
>>>
>>> cheers,
>>>
>>> Dan
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Please find below the voiD SWIG Note submission:
>>>
>>> ===
>>> The 'Vocabulary of Interlinked Datasets' (voiD) is an RDF-Schema vocabulary
>>> for expressing metadata about RDF datasets. With voiD, the discovery and
>>> usage of Linked Datasets can be performed both effectively and efficiently.
>>> A dataset is a collection of data, published and maintained by a single
>>> provider, available as RDF, and accessible, for example through
>>> dereferenceable HTTP URIs or a SPARQL endpoint.
>>>
>>> The development of voiD started in mid 2008, with a first version of the
>>> vocabulary and guide published in 01/2009 [1]. Since then, voiD has enjoyed
>>> considerable uptake in the Linked Data community and beyond, with usage
>>> throughout from data.gov.uk to individual datasets [2].
>>>
>>> A number of voiD-based implementations is available via [3]. The development
>>> of the core voiD vocabulary and the guide is an open process with a
>>> dedicated mailing list [4] and issue tracker [5].
>>>
>>> W3C-wise, voiD is relevant for the work in the SPARQL WG [6] as well as the
>>> upcoming eGov WG [7].
>>>
>>> We hereby submit the Editor'sDraft 'Describing Linked Datasets with the voiD
>>> Vocabulary' [8] to W3C's Semantic Web Interest Group (SWIG) with the goal to
>>> publish it as a W3C Interest Group Note. We appreciate feedback on this draft
>>> till 31 Jan 2011 via the 'semantic-web@w3.org' mailing list.
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>>        the voiD 'Editors Team':
>>>        Keith Alexander, Richard Cyganiak, Michael Hausenblas, Jun Zhao
>>>
>>> [1] http://vocab.deri.ie/void/guide/2009-01-29
>>> [2] http://www4.wiwiss.fu-berlin.de/lodcloud/state/#data-set-level-metadata
>>> [3] http://semanticweb.org/wiki/VoiD
>>> [4] http://groups.google.com/group/void-discussion
>>> [5] http://code.google.com/p/void-impl/issues/
>>> [6] http://www.w3.org/TR/sparql11-service-description/
>>> [7] http://www.w3.org/2011/govdata/charter
>>> [8] http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/interest/void/
>>> ===
>>>
>>
>>
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