HCLSIG BioRDF Subgroup/Tasks/URI Best Practices/Status 2007-06-08

History of this task

Spring 2006: URI Best Practices identified as task of BioRDF subgroup.
Summer 2006: Requirements/use case gathering (recorded in wiki)
Sep 2006, Amsterdam:
- Alan presents resolution ontology idea, with reference implementation (see [[/../URI Statements]])
- Ivan proposes that a recommendations document be a work product of HCLS
- JAR (Jonathan Rees) recruited to work on writeup
Winter 2006-07: JAR writes several exploratory memos; some discussion, no decisions. See http://wiki.neurocommons.org/UriBestPractices
April-May 2007: JAR implements a PURL-based naming scheme for use in HCLS demo (http://sw.neurocommons.org/2007/uri-explanation.html, http://wiki.neurocommons.org/CommonNaming)
May 2007: Alan presents at I3 and IWWWC (Banff); see http://wiki.neurocommons.org/I3 and his slides (where are they?)
May 2007 Banff (WWW2007) - Informal discussion on requirements and provenenance of URIs

Decide on requirements (i.e. what is in scope) - this is important because the task is always in danger of growing too large
Design an ontology, if needed, and prepare reference implementation
Develop recommendations for URI minting
Propose particular URI's for troublesome entities, if this is in scope

Review use cases and requirements
JAR to attempt to coax consensus on requirements. Problems and criteria introduced after this will be ignored or addressed at JAR's discretion
JAR to draft ontology derived from Alan's work, with modular presentation (one concept at a time rather than monolithic)
JAR to attempt to build consensus on particular URI choices and plan for ongoing maintenance, if necessary
Target date for recommendations document: September 30
Obtain blessing of W3C TAG (or at least ongoing review from some TAG member)

[[/../|URI Practices]]