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TAG Product: URI Documentation Discovery
DRAFT 2012-06-06 by JAR, with a variety of
changes; schedule pushed out 3 months
(Note: The problem to be solved has been stated and tracked under
TAG issue
57.
Some proposals for addressing this issue - but not all of them - propose
to re-open
TAG issue
14 (httpRange-14), which although closed in 2005 continues
to be a source of controversy.)
Goals
The goal of this work is to develop an
architecture for the provision and discovery of documentation
for the meaning and use of individual URIs.
Ideally the architecture would be simple, general, performant,
consistent with the rest of Web architecture, and accepted by the
Semantic Web and Linked Data communities.
It is not clear that this goal is achievable. An alternative
direction for the TAG would be a considered decision to leave off
pursuit of this project. That would not be a failure.
Success criteria
- Uptake
-
Promotion of consistent use of URIs among the diverse RDF documents
in which the URIs are used, to make data merges easier
-
Consensus specification for
easier deployment
of URI documentation for 'hashless' URIs compared to 303 redirects, and/or
broader acceptance of 'hash' URIs
-
Consensus specification for
more efficient deployment
of URI documentation for 'hashless' URIs compared to 303 redirects, and/or
broader acceptance of 'hash' URIs
Alternatively:
-
Well-reasoned termination of this work within the TAG
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
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October 2012: PR(s) or similar document covering the following:
- URI documentation discovery architecture
- ontology (RDF vocabulary) as needed
-
October 2012: TAG Note or similar document on semantics of metadata for
'information resources' (perhaps part of the PR)
Schedule
- 20 Jun 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. (baseline)
- 31 Dec: Draft call for change proposals to same
- 29 Feb 2012: Call for change proposals to same
- 29 Mar: End call for change proposals to same, collaborative
development of proposals continues
- 2-4 Apr: Extensive TAG F2F discussion
- 26 Apr: Use case matrix prepared
- 30 Jun: Subset of TAG prepares evaluation of proposals
- 15 Jul: "Town meeting" if required
- 15 Aug: draft of statement (Architectural
Recommendation, termination, or handoff)
(note: TPAC 2012 publication freeze is mid-October)
- 31 Aug: FPWD (if Architectural Recommendation track
is chosen)
- 31 Oct: PR (if Architectural Recommendation track
is chosen)
Drafts
Other working documents
TAG members assigned
Jonathan Rees, Jeni Tennison, Henry S. Thompson
Relevant discussion of process
TAG issues
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
- ACTION-691 on Jonathan Rees to Prepare table as described in 2012-04-04 minutes, for TAG review - due 2012-04-24, CLOSED