- From: <noah_mendelsohn@us.ibm.com>
- Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2008 17:40:17 -0500
- To: www-tag@w3.org
I am pleased to announce the availability of a new draft of the TAG Finding "The Self-Describing Web" [1,2]. This is an editors draft that has not been approved by the TAG; I expect that it will be discussed at the upcoming TAG F2F meeting in Vancouver. Very extensive changes have been made since the previous draft [3] was published, and many of these changes were motivated by discussions [4] held at the June 2007 (Google) Face to Face Meeting of the TAG [5]. In addition to removing some of the introductory material that other members recommended I drop, significant changes in this rewrite include: * A major new section introduces and highlights the standard HTTP-based retrieval "algorithm" that user agents employ to access self-describing resource representations. (Focus on this algorithm was a key priority for Tim in our reviews). * There is now extensive discussion of URI-based extensibility, and of the ability of user agents to dynamically acquire rules for interpreting new sorts of content by retrieving OWL ontologies, namespace documents (RDDL), etc. Such dynamic discovery using URIs is now to some degree a unifying theme for the latter half of the finding. Examples are also given of using URIs as the basis for extensible attribute values (e.g. link relationships) and other similar data fields in Web representations. * The discussion of RDF and RDFa has been updated and clarified and the section on GRDDL has been added. * Numerous examples have been added. FWIW: I don't think this draft is quite final, but we've been through a number of significant rewrites, and I'm hoping that we're starting to converge on something not too far from this. So, please review it with that in mind, but of course, feel free to say so if you feel otherwise. Comments on this draft should be posted to the www-tag@w3.org mailing list, and they are all much appreciated. Thank you. Noah [1] http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/doc/selfDescribingDocuments [2] http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/doc/selfDescribingDocuments-2008-02-08.html [3] http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/doc/selfDescribingDocuments-2007-05-24.html [4] http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/2007/06/01-minutes#item02 [5] http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/2007/05/29-agenda -------------------------------------- Noah Mendelsohn IBM Corporation One Rogers Street Cambridge, MA 02142 1-617-693-4036 --------------------------------------
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