Someday, this will be instructions and advice for how to administer a w3.org namespace and/or create a standard data vocabulary. It's linked from W3C Vocabulary Services
For now, if you want to use a w3.org namespace, please email us at w3t-semweb-review@w3.org (@@ better list name?) and let's talk via email or telephone. Once we have a clear idea what people need, we'll fill in this document and/or create some automated tools.
Some questions we might ask you:
How developed is your vocabulary already? (Answers might be: It's just an idea; it's a rough sketch; I think it's pretty stable; I've written code that uses it; Other people have written code that uses it)
Why do you want to publish your vocabulary specification at W3C? (I hear it's good practice; It's cool; I want to help other people; I want to motivate other people to help; I want to convince others to use the vocabulary so we have data interoperability; ...)
How much work are you willing to do? (a few hours once and then I'm done; a few hours a month for a year or two; a few hours a week for a year or two; a few hours a day for year or two)
Are you an open source developer? Are you familiar with open source development practice? Do you use github?
Is it important to have your spec published on w3.org? on schema.org? Is it important to have the namespace URL include w3.org? schema.org?
What kind of people/organizations are already reading/writing data using this vocab? Which ones are likely to? Which ones do you hope will, some day? Governments? Search Engines?
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