ISSUE-9: Define if and how changes to the XG ontology should be managed after the XG is finished
Ontology status after the closure of the XG
Define if and how changes to the XG ontology should be managed after the XG is finished
- State:
- CLOSED
- Product:
- W3C Semantic Sensor Networks Incubator Group report
- Raised by:
- Laurent Lefort
- Opened on:
- 2010-06-21
- Description:
- The discussion with the Team on Action-30 "Define the final place where the XG ontology will be delivered" http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/ssn/track/actions/30/edit has a corollary issue: will there be some maintenance actions required after September 2010, when the XG will be closed?
The current (normal) expectation with XGs (see http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/procedures) is that when they close, they are done (except for a public mailing list that may stay open).
Is the SSN XG ontology expected to change after the end of the XG? If so, what would be the decision policy for making changes? who would own the resource? where do people send comments?
Will there be some projects (or a community) willing to exploit (and eventually maintain or upgrade) the XG results for a period of six months or more?
Note: it is VERY IMPORTANT to record the best we can the conclusions we will reach for the latter issue and to include them in the XG report.
Note (reminder): the Incubator concept includes an option that has the potential to efficiently transition Incubator Group (XG) work to form a new (Recommendation Track) Working Group http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/REC-track.html - Related Actions Items:
- No related actions
- Related emails:
- SSN-XG Meeting Minutes 22 June 2010 (from Laurent.Lefort@csiro.au on 2010-06-24)
- Status of Operating model example - Reuse of external ontologies by the XG - What happens after the XG issues? (from Laurent.Lefort@csiro.au on 2010-06-24)
- RE: ISSUE-9 (Ontology status after the closure of the XG): Define if and how changes to the XG ontology should be managed after the XG is finished (from william.d.kelsey@boeing.com on 2010-06-21)
- ISSUE-9 (Ontology status after the closure of the XG): Define if and how changes to the XG ontology should be managed after the XG is finished (from sysbot+tracker@w3.org on 2010-06-21)
Related notes:
Discussed in weekly teleconf (6 July 2010)
See: http://www.w3.org/2010/07/06-ssn-minutes.html (raw minutes) and
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-xg-ssn/2010Jul/0006.html (summary of what was discussed at the teleconfs)
Comments welcome from the XG participants who have not yet provided inputs on this topic.
Related to ACTION-30 "Define the final place where the XG ontology will be delivered"
The Incubator group intend to continue to maintain the ontology after the end of the XG. So it is important to limit the migration workload for both the maintainers and the end users of the ontology.
In these conditions, it may be preferable to use purl URLs for the ontology.
Identified 25 papers which discusses "applications" of the SSN Ontology
See papers with the "SSNO application" tag:
- on BibBase: http://www.bibbase.org/cgi-bin/pyBibBase/pyBibBase.cgi?bib=purl.oclc.org/NET/ssnx/ssn-xg-public.bib&filter=mendeley-tags:SSNO_application
- on Mendeley http://www.mendeley.com/groups/1058841/ssn-xg-public/papers/title/0/tag/ssno+application/
Issued recommendation 1 in the XG report:
- Create a W3C community group (http://www.w3.org/2010/12/community/summary#cg) focused on the maintenance and extension of the SSN Ontology
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