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TAG Product: URI Documentation Discovery

Goals

The goal is to develop a URI documentation provision and discovery architecture that is simple, general, performant, consistent with Web architecture, and accepted by the linked data community. In other words, the goal is to "drive the httpRange-14 issue to a conclusion" (note that httpRange-14 itself was formally closed, but the resulting proposals continue to be concontroversial and incompletely deployed; the continuing concerns are tracked in Tracker under ISSUE-57)

Success criteria

• Uptake
• Technical interoperability of RDF used for metadata with RDF used for linked data

Key deliverables and dates

• December 2011: (a) draft call for httpRange-14 change proposals, (b) a working-draft-like document to act as a baseline against which change proposals are to be written
• July 2012: PR(s) or similar document covering the following:
  1. URI documentation discovery architecture
  2. ontology (RDF vocabulary) as needed
• July 2012: TAG Note on semantics of metadata for 'information resources'

Schedule

• 20 June 2011: Revise the two issue-57 drafts, put out for review on semantic-web and/or LOD lists
• 31 Dec: First editor's draft of potential arch. rec.
• 31 Dec: Draft call for change proposals to same
• 15 Jan 2012: Call for change proposals to same
• 15 Feb: End call for change proposals to same
• 15 Mar: FPWD or equivalent (note: TPAC 2011 publication freeze is mid-October)
• 15 Apr: Go/no-go decision regarding Architectural Recommendation track
• 1 May: Working Draft or equivalent
• 1 Jun: "Town meeting" if required
• 31 Jul: PR or equivalent

Documents

• Proposed baseline draft
• Proposal for a call for change proposals to that baseline (see announcement e-mail from Jonathan) — NOTE: this e-mail reference to be replaced with link to actual change proposal if/when that is circulated

TAG members assigned

Jonathan Rees

Drafts

• Providing and discovering definitions of URIs: Editor's Draft 25 June 2011
• Interoperability of referential uses of hashless URIs by Jonathan Rees (announcement email)
• Information Resources and Web Metadata: Editor's Draft 25 June 2011 by Jonathan Rees (announcement email)

Relevant discussion of process

• Discussion at June 2011 F2F
• JAR's proposed process
• TAG teleconference discussion on 22 December 2011
• Discussion at January 2012 F2F

TAG issues

• ISSUE-57 Mechanisms for obtaining information about the meaning of a given URI
• ISSUE-14 What is the range of the HTTP dereference function? (closed)
• ISSUE-63 Metadata Architecture for the Web - the connection is tangential; relevant only in that the use of URIs to designate metadata subjects is in conflict with one proposed documentation discovery mechanism
• ISSUE-62 Uniform Access to Server-provided Metadata - this covers different, but potentially overlapping, use cases - generally speaking, description of a resource (usually an information resource), as opposed to URI documentation.

TAG actions

• ACTION-624: on - Jonathan Rees - Draft for TAG consideration a call for httpRange-14 change proposals - Due: 2011-12-31 - CLOSED
• ACTION-625: on - Noah Mendelsohn - Schedule followup discussion of http://www.w3.org/wiki/HttpRange14Options (per agreement in Santa Clara) - Due: 2011-12-21 - CLOSED