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Most of the XML Working Groups have been closed by now; this year saw XQuery and XSLT close, their work successfully completed. As we wind down work on standardizing the XML stack at W3C it’s worth looking at some of what we have accomplished and why. W3C XML, the Extensible Markup Language, is one of […]
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Three of our data-centric Working Groups have rounded off their year and published new documents today. First of all, congratulations are due to the CSV on the Web Working Group whose work has reached Recommendation status. That means they have successfully defined and proved technologies for describing tabular data, and for converting that data into […]
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The CSV on the Web Working Group has just published a new set of Working Drafts, which the group considers feature complete and implementable. The drafts are: Model for Tabular Data and Metadata on the Web – an abstract model for tabular data, and how to locate metadata that enables users to better understand what […]
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A special open meeting of the W3C Linked Data Platform (LDP) Working Group to discuss potential future work for the group. The deliverable from the workshop will be a report that the LDP WG will take into consideration as it plans its way forward. LDP offers an alternative vision to data lockdown, providing a clean separation between […]
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Last week has marked the culmination of almost three years of hard work coming out of the Linked Data Platform WG, resulting in the publication of the Linked Data Platform 1.0 as a W3C Recommendation. For those of you not yet familiar with LDP, this specification defines a set of rules for HTTP operations on Web resources, some based […]
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The CSV on the Web Working Group has published four drafts. Alongside updates to the existing Model for Tabular Data and Metadata and Metadata Vocabulary for Tabular Data documents, are two new documents. These describe mechanisms for generating JSON and RDF from tabular data. This work builds on the earlier specifications which describe higher level […]
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It was a year ago that Alex Coley and I first started discussing the idea of a workshop around geospatial data and how it can link with other data sources on the Web. Alex is the person at the UK’s Department of the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) who is behind things like the […]
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Last month I encouraged the provision of multi-lingual labels for vocabularies hosted at W3C. Tokyo librarian Shuji Kamitsuna has been doing terrific work recently and has translated the specification documents for DCAT (English, Japanese) and ORG (English, Japanese), and is now well into completing his work on the Data Cube Vocabulary. After Shuji had completed […]
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In the short time since the beginning of the year, the Government Linked Data Working Group has successfully published its final documents. The Best Practices for Publishing Linked Data Note was published last week providing advice and insights into how linked data publishing differs from other formats; and this week has seen three vocabularies published […]
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The RDF Working Group has published two Recommendations today: JSON-LD 1.0. JSON is a useful data serialization and messaging format. This specification defines JSON-LD, a JSON-based format to serialize Linked Data. The syntax is designed to easily integrate into deployed systems that already use JSON, and provides a smooth upgrade path from JSON to JSON-LD. […]
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