- From: <noah_mendelsohn@us.ibm.com>
- Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2008 20:55:18 -0500
- To: www-tag@w3.org, Tim Berners-Lee <timbl@w3.org>
- Cc: Shane McCarron <shane@aptest.com>, "Steven Pemberton" <steven.pemberton@cwi.nl>, Ben Adida <ben@mit.edu>
I am pleased to announce the publication of a new draft of a TAG finding titled "The Self-Describing Web" [1,2]. We have a discussion of this topic scheduled at our F2F next week. I have editied the draft agenda [3] to provide links to this new version, as well as to some background material. This redraft is, like several before it, intended to be nearly ready for publication, but there is one significant chapter with new material, and I won't be surprised if that requires some detailed review and subsequent revision. I have attempted to address the significant issues raised in the review [5] of the previous draft in Kansas City, and I think the changes are in general for the better. A diff from the previous version is at [4]. If you're short on time, I suggest reading the abstract, the introduction, and the new chapter 6 [6]. There are mostly isolated changes elsewhere. Brief summary of key changes: * As Tim suggested in KC, I have introduced a concept of representations being "grounded in the Web". This is discussed some in the abstract and introduction sections, but primarily in a new chapter 6 that's entirely devoted to this concept. See [6]. Tim: does this capture the essence of what you were looking for? * RDFa is now treated as being self-describing via RFC 3023, following the model we resolved to use in the KC discussions. The RDF/XML example has been retained, and the N3 version dropped, also as decided in KC. I believe that the namespace document for XHTML [7] has been revised to provide for use of RDFa, so I've treated that as a done deal. * As suggested by Jonathan Rees in KC, I clarified the sense in which the term "self-describing" is applied to representations. * Miscellaneous cleanup, some of which was requested in Kansas City (e.g. drop unreferenced biblio items left from earlier drafts.) Noah [1] http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/doc/selfDescribingDocuments.html [2] http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/doc/selfDescribingDocuments-2008-12-03.html [3] http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/2008/12/09-f2f-agenda#selfDescribingWeb [4] http://www.w3.org/2007/10/htmldiff?doc1=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2001%2Ftag%2Fdoc%2FselfDescribingDocuments-2008-09-08.html&doc2=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2001%2Ftag%2Fdoc%2FselfDescribingDocuments-2008-12-03.html [5] http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/2008/09/24-minutes#item01 [6] http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/doc/selfDescribingDocuments-2008-12-03.html#grounding [7] http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml/ -------------------------------------- Noah Mendelsohn IBM Corporation One Rogers Street Cambridge, MA 02142 1-617-693-4036 --------------------------------------
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