W3C Workshop Report: Smart Descriptions and Smarter Vocabularies (SDSVoc)
W3C published today the report from the W3C "Smart Descriptions & Smarter Vocabularies (SDSVoc)" workshop, held on 30 November - 1 December 2016 in Amsterdam.
The report contains an executive summary and conclusions, as well as a brief summary and visual report of each session, with links to all presentation slides. The event's agenda also links to the papers received and the rough notes taken throughout the event. The clear conclusion from the well attended workshop was that a new Working Group is needed to achieve two goals:
- Revise and expand the Data Catalog Vocabulary, DCAT to cover versioning, data series, APIs and more.
- Develop the concepts of data profiles (cardinality constraints and enumerated allowed values) and, from that, the mechanisms for content negotiation by those profiles. Following a careful analysis of the current state of the art, presented at the workshop, an Internet Draft is already in preparation on this topic. The WG's role will be to put this in context and explain how fallback mechanisms can be used.
We've shared advance notice today that the W3C team is working on a draft charter for a new Data Exchange Working Group, and encourage public comments and suggestions on the draft charter in the dxwg GitHub issue repository.
We thank our Workshop sponsors: the EU-funded VRE4EIC project and Informatie Vlaanderen, the Flemish government's digital agency, as well as our host, CWI, for making this event possible.
