Re: Feedback sought on reorganizing the list of W3C Technical Reports

Le 11/01/2021 à 13:25, Ivan Herman a écrit :
> The concept of 'families' sounds great to me. Two immediate comments:
> 
> - It would be great if a 'family' had its own stable W3C URI (with some
> reasonable resource returned when dereferencing it) and would not only
> appear as a structure within the web site. I always had problems when,
> in a references, a presentation, etc, people were asking me to give a
> reference to, say, RDF. Some of the groups published an 'overview'
> document on TR, others maintained a wiki page or a page on date space,
> etc; I think it would greatly help if a family was a real and systematic
> resource.

That's unlikely to be part of the first phase of redesign; we've been
investigating that idea on the "spec series" level rather than "spec
family", but maybe this would need revisiting. One of my concern (again
based on past experience) is how stable can we expect the families to be
- if there is going to be non-infrequent merge / split / shuffling of
families, then maintaining these stable URIs will become a hassle.

> - I am not sure if we will be able to retain a strict hierarchy, ie,
> that a specific TR would belong to a single family. (I am not sure that
> was your intention, but that is how the table seems to be structured).

Yes, that's the intention - and part of what I want to confirm in this
discussion is that this design constraint is realistic moving forward.

> There are overlaps: just from my own practice we have the DPUB-ARIA work
> that is as much a publishing document as an ARIA one,

I categorized that document very specifically in the ARIA family since
the document itself states "This document is part of the WAI-ARIA suite
described in the WAI-ARIA Overview."

I absolutely agree that this document also relates to publishing; but
for sake of simplicity and maintainability, my current proposal doesn't
include managing multiple hierarchies.

(to put it otherwise, I don't think I can push this proposal in time for
the current redesign phase if it needs to include multiple hierarchies)

> we have overlaps
> between web annotations and some publishing work again, etc. There may
> be a "primary" family, mostly due to the WG that develops it, but there
> should be links to other families, too.

For sake of clarity, my current proposal is about these "primary"
families; I doubt there would be an easy way to integrate multiple
families in TR and keep the page relatively usable - so if we ever go
the multiple families path, my assumption is that they would appear in a
different context than the TR page.

So I guess the question becomes whether you think going forward only
with these primary families (either for now or for good) is an improved
way of presenting our work or not.

Thanks!

Dom

Received on Tuesday, 12 January 2021 17:08:34 UTC