[tdwg-tag] RDF/OWL Good Practices Task Group

[Kevin Richards]

Good to see this moving along Joel.

I assume you have requested/lined up a time/session at the TDWG meeting for this new task group?

Kevin

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From: tdwg-tag-bounces at lists.tdwg.org [mailto:tdwg-tag-bounces at lists.tdwg.org] On Behalf Of joel sachs
Sent: Tuesday, 20 September 2011 7:47 a.m.
To: tdwg-tag at lists.tdwg.org
Subject: [tdwg-tag] RDF/OWL Good Practices Task Group

Greetings everyone,

After some back and forth amongst Steve Baskauf, myself, Greg Whitbread, and the executive, we've decided to move forward with an RDF/OWL task group, convened under the TAG. Our task will be to deliver a document comprising i. use cases and competency questions; ii. well documented examples of addressing those use cases via rdf and sparql; and iii. discussion of advantages and disadvantages of the approaches illustrated by the examples.

Our draft charter is at
http://code.google.com/p/tdwg-rdf/wiki/CharterOfTG
and we welcome comments, suggestions, and better ideas. One area where we're still open is the question of whether or not our deliverable should be an official Best Current Practice document [1]. The charter reflects our current feeling that it should not. After we deliver our "book of use cases and examples", options would include being re-chartered by the TAG to produce a best practices document, spinning off as a "Semantic Web Interest Group", or disbanding (either in triumph or despair).

When we were planning to convene as an Interest Group, several of you accepted our invitation to serve as core members, and we hope that convening as a Task Group does not change your willingness to do so. If you would like to be a core member of the group, and we haven't yet contacted you, there's a good chance that we will. But don't wait! Feel free to volunteer for core membership. (And recall that you don't have to be a "core member to" contribute.)

In regards timeline, I'd like to incorporate any feedback we receive, and submit the charter to the executive at the end of this week, in hopes of being chartered by New Orleans.

Many thanks!
Joel.

1. http://www.tdwg.org/standards/status-and-categories/


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