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</head><body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000">I fully support this. It's
been long overdue. -hilmar<br>
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On 1/20/15, 10:18 AM, John Wieczorek wrote:
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cite="mid:CAHwKGGf-H0HAJ2mKAp2K1y51rm8QjWWvciK3aZWtPmcP87x0Cw@mail.gmail.com"
type="cite">
<div dir="ltr"><p
style="margin-bottom:16px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'Helvetica
Neue',Helvetica,'Segoe
UI',Arial,freesans,sans-serif;font-size:13.63636302948px;line-height:20.3636360168457px;margin-top:0px!important">Dear
all,</p><p
style="margin-bottom:16px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'Helvetica
Neue',Helvetica,'Segoe
UI',Arial,freesans,sans-serif;font-size:13.63636302948px;line-height:20.3636360168457px;margin-top:0px!important">Peter
Desmet, Markus Döring, and I have been working on the transition of
Darwin Core maintenance from the Google Code Site to Github. We've taken
the opportunity to streamline the process of making updates to the
standard when they are ratified, such as scripts to produce the
human-readable content and auxiliary files from the RDF document of
current terms. As a result of this work, we see further opportunities to
simplify the maintenance of the standard. They center on the following
proposal.</p><p
style="margin-bottom:16px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'Helvetica
Neue',Helvetica,'Segoe
UI',Arial,freesans,sans-serif;font-size:13.63636302948px;line-height:20.3636360168457px;margin-top:0px!important">We
would like to propose that the <strong>RDF document of current terms</strong> be
made to represent the <strong>normative standard for Darwin Core</strong>
rather than <b>Complete History normative document</b> we use now. We
would also like to make that new normative document the only document in
the standard. </p><p
style="margin-bottom:16px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'Helvetica
Neue',Helvetica,'Segoe
UI',Arial,freesans,sans-serif;font-size:13.63636302948px;line-height:20.3636360168457px;margin-top:0px!important"><span
style="font-size:13.63636302948px;line-height:20.3636360168457px">Under
this proposal:</span><br></p><p
style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px!important"><font color="#333333"
face="Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Segoe UI, Arial, freesans, sans-serif"><span
style="font-size:13.63636302948px;line-height:20.3636360168457px">1)
the normative standard for Darwin Core would consist of a single
document at </span></font><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://rs.tdwg.org/terms/dwc_normative.rdf">http://rs.tdwg.org/terms/dwc_normative.rdf</a>
(not currently active).</p><p
style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px!important"><br><font
color="#333333" face="Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Segoe UI, Arial,
freesans, sans-serif"><span
style="font-size:13.63636302948px;line-height:20.3636360168457px">2)
information currently held in </span></font><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/rdf/dwctermshistory.rdf"
style="color:rgb(65,131,196);font-family:'Helvetica
Neue',Helvetica,'Segoe
UI',Arial,freesans,sans-serif;font-size:13.63636302948px;line-height:20.3636360168457px;text-decoration:none;background-image:initial;background-color:transparent;background-repeat:initial">http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/rdf/dwctermshistory.rdf</a><font
color="#333333" face="Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Segoe UI, Arial,
freesans, sans-serif"><span
style="font-size:13.63636302948px;line-height:20.3636360168457px"> (the
current normative document) and the corresponding Complete History web
page (</span><span style="line-height:20.3636360168457px"><a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/history/index.htm">http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/history/index.htm</a></span><span
style="font-size:13.63636302948px;line-height:20.3636360168457px">)
would be retained only in a history document </span></font><a
moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://rs.tdwg.org/terms/history.html">http://rs.tdwg.org/terms/history.html</a>
(not currently active)<font color="#333333" face="Helvetica Neue,
Helvetica, Segoe UI, Arial, freesans, sans-serif"><span
style="font-size:13.63636302948px;line-height:20.3636360168457px">.</span></font></p><p
style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px!important"><font
color="#333333" face="Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Segoe UI, Arial,
freesans, sans-serif"><span
style="font-size:13.63636302948px;line-height:20.3636360168457px"><br></span></font></p><p
style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px!important"><font
color="#333333" face="Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Segoe UI, Arial,
freesans, sans-serif"><span
style="font-size:13.63636302948px;line-height:20.3636360168457px">3) all
documents other than the proposed normative document would not be part
of the standard.</span></font></p><p
style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px!important"><font color="#333333"
face="Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Segoe UI, Arial, freesans, sans-serif"><span
style="font-size:13.63636302948px;line-height:20.3636360168457px"><br></span></font></p><p
style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px!important"><font
color="#333333" face="Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Segoe UI, Arial,
freesans, sans-serif"><span
style="font-size:13.63636302948px;line-height:20.3636360168457px">The
proposed changes require community consensus under the existing rules of
governance of the Darwin Core. This means that the proposal must be
under public review for at least 30 days after an apparent consensus on
the proposal and any amendments to it is reached, where consensus
consists of no publicly-shared opposition.</span></font></p><p
style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px!important"><font color="#333333"
face="Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Segoe UI, Arial, freesans, sans-serif"><span
style="font-size:13.63636302948px;line-height:20.3636360168457px"><br></span></font></p><p
style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px!important"><font
color="#333333" face="Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Segoe UI, Arial,
freesans, sans-serif"><span
style="font-size:13.63636302948px;line-height:20.3636360168457px">The
implications of this proposal are many. One of the most important is
that the rules governing changes to the standard (</span><span
style="line-height:20.3636360168457px"><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/namespace/index.htm">http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/namespace/index.htm</a></span></font><span
style="font-size:13.63636302948px;line-height:20.3636360168457px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'Helvetica
Neue',Helvetica,'Segoe UI',Arial,freesans,sans-serif">) would no longer
be a part of the standard. Instead, we would promote the adoption of
these rules across TDWG standards rather than just within Darwin Core.
It may be that TDWG is not ready to accommodate this at the moment. If
so, the Namespace Policy could remain within the Darwin Core standard
until the broader governance process for TDWG can cover it, at which
point we would propose to remove the Namespace Policy from the Darwin
Core.</span></p><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px!important"><br></p><p
style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px!important">Other comments about
the proposed changes:</p><p
style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px!important"><br></p><p
style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px!important">Having one RDF
document for the terms in the dwc namespace will avoid confusion. Only
those with status 'recommended' would be in the normative document.</p><p
style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px!important"><br></p><p
style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px!important">Having the term
history (all versions, including deprecated, superseded, and recommended
ones) in a web page only is what Dublin Core does. It means no one
would be able to reason over old versions of the Darwin Core. Would
anyone do that?</p><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px!important"><font
color="#333333" face="Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Segoe UI, Arial,
freesans, sans-serif"><span
style="font-size:13.63636302948px;line-height:20.3636360168457px"><br></span></font></p><p
style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px!important"><font
color="#333333" face="Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Segoe UI, Arial,
freesans, sans-serif"><span style="line-height:20.3636360168457px">Having
no document other than the normative one as part of the standard would
free the whole rest of the body of Darwin Core documentation from</span></font><span
style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'Helvetica
Neue',Helvetica,'Segoe
UI',Arial,freesans,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333339691162px;line-height:20.3636360168457px"> the
requirements of public review and Executive Committee approval. This
would make that documentation </span><span
style="font-size:13.63636302948px;line-height:20.3636360168457px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'Helvetica
Neue',Helvetica,'Segoe UI',Arial,freesans,sans-serif">much more open to
broader contributions and easier to adapt to evolving demands.</span></p><p
style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px!important"><br></p><p
style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px!important">We do not propose to
lose any of the documentation we have.</p><p
style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px!important"><br></p><p
style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px!important">Please share your
comments!</p><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px!important"><br></p><p
style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px!important">Cheers,</p><p
style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px!important"><br></p><p
style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px!important">John</p></div>
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