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About This Document

This document captures outstanding issues in the Evaluation and Report Language (EARL) 1.0 Guide, Working Draft of 10 May, 2011. The Evaluation and Repair Tools Working Group (ERT WG) intends to address these issues in future working drafts. Comments and feedback welcome to public-earl10-comments@w3.org.

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Table of Contents

Appendices

  1. References
  2. Contributors

Overall Comments

[Open] - Consider developing this document as a W3C Recommendation rather than a W3C Note (from Sean B. Palmer [034] on 12 May 2011).
Resolution: Needs more discussion and analysis of likely implementations (see also corresponding group resolution in minutes of 7 September 2011 and group discussion in minutes 19 October 2011).

[Open] - Use of prefix "dc" vs "dct" (conflicting comments from Sean B. Palmer [028] on 11 May 2011 and Thomas Steiner on 18 June 2011).
Resolution: Confirm with DC folks (see also corresponding group resolution in minutes of 7 September 2011, group resolution in minutes of 12 October 2011, and group resolution in minutes of 19 October 2011).

[Pending] - Move conformance section from EARL 1.0 Guide to EARL 1.0 Schema to make it normative (from Sean B. Palmer [002] on 10 May 2011).
Resolution: Accept (see also related comment 004 about profiles and corresponding group resolution in minutes of 22 June 2011).

[Pending] - Explain extensibility policy (from Sean B. Palmer [006] on 10 May 2011).
Resolution: Accept to add more explanation in the EARL 1.0 Guide and more cross-references in EARL 1.0 Schema (see also corresponding group resolution in minutes of 29 June 2011).

[Pending] - Consider more examples to illustrate the different uses of earl:Software (from Sean B. Palmer [014] on 10 May 2011).
Resolution: Accept as editorial changes (potentially add examples to the EARL 1.0 Guide instead; see also corresponding group resolution in minutes of 27 July 2011).

[Pending] - Update EARL 1.0 Guide to refelect current EARL 1.0 Schema (from Sean B. Palmer [016] on 10 May 2011 and Sean B. Palmer [019] on 10 May 2011).
Resolution: Accept as editorial changes (see also corresponding group resolution in minutes of 27 July 2011 and group resolution in minutes of 24 August 2011).

[Pending] - reference EARL 1.0 Requirements from this document (from Sean B. Palmer [035] on 12 May 2011).
Resolution: Accept as editorial changes (see also corresponding group resolution in minutes of 14 September 2011).

[Pending] - use "ht" as the prefix for HTTP-in-RDF namespace (from Thomas Steiner on 18 June 2011).
Resolution: Accept as editorial changes (see also corresponding group resolution in minutes of 12 October 2011).

0. Front Matter

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1. Introduction

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1.1. Audience of this Document

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1.2. Document conventions

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2. About Evaluation and Report Language (EARL)

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2.1. Structure of EARL

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2.2. Uses of EARL

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2.3. Limitations of EARL

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3. Using the Evaluation and Report Language (EARL)

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3.1. Basic report components

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3.2. Putting the pieces together

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3.3. An accessibility example

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3.4. Identifying unambiguously the resource

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3.5. Advance usage

[Pending] - Change "Advance usage" --> "Advanced usage" (from Sean B. Palmer [030] on 11 May 2011).
Resolution: Accept as editorial changes (see also corresponding group resolution in minutes of 7 September 2011).

3.5.1. Extending the vocabularies

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3.5.2. Merging reports from different sources

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4. Conformance for EARL 1.0 Tools and Reports

[Pending] - Revise consistency in required attributes (from Sean B. Palmer [023] on 10 May 2011).
Resolution: Reject request for consistency as it does not make practical sense but change "identifying name/title" to "identifyer" in conformance requirements 2.a, 3.a, and 4.a to be more prescise and clear (see also corresponding group resolution in minutes of 31 August 2011).

4.1. Conforming EARL 1.0 Reports

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4.2. Conforming HTTP-in-RDF Graphs

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4.3. Conforming Content-in-RDF Graphs

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5. Serializations of EARL Reports

[Open] - Check relationship with TAP and xUnit (from Sean B. Palmer [031] on 11 May 2011).
Resolution: Needs more discussion (see also corresponding group resolution in minutes of 7 September 2011, initial assessment of TAP, and initial assessment of xUnit).

Appendix A: References

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Appendix B: Contributors

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