RDF in XHTML Taskforce Charter

Chair(s):

Ben Adida, Creative Commons

Previous charter:

August 2003

Status: This document in an informal charter of the "RDF in XHTML" Taskforce between the SemWeb CG and HTML WG.

Introduction

Folks would like to embed RDF in XHTML documents. See RDF in XHTML for more background and proto-requirements.

Table of Contents

• Mission Statement
• Scope
  • Requirements
  • Constraints
  • Demonstration Applications
• Deliverables
• Duration and Milestones
• Confidentiality
• Coordination with Other Groups
• Communication Mechanisms
  • Taskforce Home Page
  • Mailing List
  • Teleconferences
  • Face to Face Meetings
  • Communications with the Public

Mission Statement

The task of the RDF in XHTML Taskforce is to:

• State requirements for representing metadata in RDF within an XHTML document
• Evaluate proposed solutions against those requirements.
• Recommend to the HTML WG and the SWBPD WG how to proceed to achieve a common, widely accepted way of representing RDF metadata within an XHMTL document.

Discussions of the task force will be public. Membership of the task force is open to all those interested in facilitating the above tasks.

Scope

See the RDF in XHTML Requirements and Plan

Deliverables

The task force will deliver:

1. Requirements
2. A Plan for the satisfaction of those requirements

Duration and Milestones

This Task Force is scheduled at the discretion of the SWBPD WG and HTML WG; this charter is set to last until end of 2004

October 2004

Finalization of the requirements document

October/November 2004

Detailed evaluation of the technical solutions; estimation of the resources needed for them

Confidentiality

This charter, the Taskforce web page, and the mailing list and archives will be publicly accessible. Participating activities should be careful not to disclose information in the process of coordination that is not public.

Coordination with Other Groups

W3C Activities

The SWBPD WG and HTML WG are the chartering groups. Other groups that might be of relevance is the RDF Core WG, RDF IG, Hypertext CG, and XML Core and Schema WGs.

Communication Mechanisms

Taskforce Home Page

See the RDF in XHTML Requirements and Plan

Mailing List

Participants must subscribe to and participate in the public-rdf-in-xhtml-tf@w3.org mail list.

Teleconferences

No teleconferences are foreseen presently, but will be convened as necessary.

Face to Face Meetings

No face-to-face meetings are expected.

Communication with the Public

This working group is public readable, Taskforce writable.