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

Hilmar Lapp hlapp at nescent.org
Tue Sep 20 21:06:35 CEST 2011


Hi Joel,

how can I edit the charter? I don't seem to be able to. Also, to  
provide an incentive to prevent what typically happens after such  
meetings (namely nothing further), one idea could be our goal to  
produce a manuscript for publication, e.g. in Biodiversity  
Informatics, that articulates motivations and conclusions for whatever  
recommendations emerge as consensus, as well as those for which  
controversy remains.

FYI, there is currently a manuscript in pre-publication status that  
looks at best practices for publishing RDF on the scope of life  
science data, but with a focus on biomedical and drug data. We may be  
able to look at this as a basis, and one possibility would be to build  
on it and cast its findings, plus our own, in terms of the needs of  
biodiversity data publishers and consumers.

	-hilmar

On Sep 19, 2011, at 3:46 PM, joel sachs wrote:

> 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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