Submission request to W3C ( W3C Team Comment )
We, W3C Member(s) IBM, DERI, EMC, Oracle, Red Hat, SemanticWeb.com, and Tasktop, hereby submit to the Consortium the following specification, comprising the following document(s) attached hereto:
which collectively are referred to as "the Submission". We request the Submission be known as the Linked Data Basic Profile Submission.
The Linked Data Basic Profile 1.0 specification defines a set of best practices and a simple approach for a read-write Linked Data architecture, based on HTTP access to web resources that describe their state using RDF. The specification builds on the four principles Tim Berners-Lee used to define "Linked Data" and provides some new rules as well as clarifications and extensions to achieve greater interoperability between Linked Data implementations.
The below statements concerning Copyrights, Trade and Service Marks, and Patents, have been made by the following people on behalf of themselves and their affiliated organizations:
The Linked Enterprise Data Patterns workshop, held in December 2011, ended with unanimous agreement that "the W3C should create a Working Group to produce a W3C Recommendation which defines a Linked Data Platform [...], [expecting] this to be an enumeration of specs which constitute linked data, with some small additional specs to cover things like pagination, if necessary".
We suggest that the Consortium proceeds with the creation of such a Working Group and uses this Submission as a starting point.
To help with this work we expect, but do not commit, to be able to provide representatives to participate in the working group. Siemens and Cambridge Semantics also stated that they are supportive of this submission and expect, but do not commit, to participate in the working group.
Inquiries from the public or press about this Submission should be directed to: Steve Holbrook <shh@us.ibm.com>
This 28th of March, 2012,