EARL 1.0 Guide - Outline

This is a draft outline for the EARL 1.0 Guide, which is currently under development by the Evaluation and Repair Tools Working Group (ERT WG). It as discussed during the 6-7 November 2008 face-to-face meeting. This is a draft work in progress and may be updated without prior notification. Progress on this work will be announced through the ERT WG home page.

1. Introduction

1.1. Audience

Primary audience: developers of tools such as accessibility checkers, validators, or other quality assurance tools
Secondary audience: metadata applications, accessibility researchers, semantic Web practitioners

1.2. Purpose

describe how to use the EARL 1.0 Schema
describe how to use HTTP-in-RDF, Content-in-RDF, and PointerMethods to supplement EARL 1.0 Schema
It is *NOT* the purpose to teach developers RDF
We also want to describe some of the benefits and use-cases for EARL

1.3. Structure

2. What is EARL

2.1. Use Cases

2.2. Vocabularies

EARL 1.0 Schema is RDF and reuses DC, FOAF; it also uses the following as extensions

HTTP-in-RDF
Content-in-RDF
Pointer Methods

2.3. How EARL fits into a testing process

3. EARL Structure

The Assertion is the most basic component

3.1. Assertor

who has tested, can be a person or tool or a combination etc.

3.2. Test Subject

is what has been tested, can be extended by HTTP-in-RDF (see section 4.1)

3.3. Test Criterion

3.4. Test Result

4. Supplementing EARL

4.1. Recording HTTP Exchanges

explain how to use HTTP-in-RDF together with EARL 1.0 Schema