HCLSIG BioRDF Subgroup/Tasks/URI Best Practices/Work Plan

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Work Plan for URI-Related Recommendations Document

Status of this page: Proposal by JonathanRees. Original 2007-06-25, revised 2007-09-10

The purpose of this page is to document the procedure that we (the BioRDF subgroup) intend to use in order to produce a document that is to give recommendations related to the choice and use of URIs in the Semantic Web for health care and life sciences.

The topic of URIs seems to be of interest to the entire HCLS group, but the BioRDF subgroup is taking responsibility for it. Anyone in HCLS who cares should pay attention to what BioRDF is doing in this area. Meeting announcements, minutes, and progress on the document will be reported on the public-semweb-lifesci list.

The document is to be published via W3C, as a work product of the HCLS interest group.

The editor of the report will be JonathanRees, although if an alternative candidate steps forward, the BioRDF subgroup should be happy to consider him/her.

Some kind of attention either from the W3C TAG or from a W3C TAG member will be highly desirable. Our W3C liaison (Eric P) will [no apparent progress as of 9/10] investigate how to bring this about.

Before tackling the problem of specific recommendations, it is desirable to figure out what the document is supposed to accomplish and not accomplish, and what the requirements are on any proposed recommendations - what problems they are supposed to solved, for whom, and in what way.

The 'home page' for this task is [[/../Recommendations]]

Timeline

(This is supposed to happen in 2007.)

  1. 25 June - rough agreement on requirements; recorded on main page. Refinements will be allowed after this, but new requirements past this point will be strongly discouraged.
  2. 10 Sep - draft of memo about consistency, availability, and caching [[/../Recommendations/MeaningOfaTerm]]
  3. 14 Oct - drafts of memos about minting and public database record URIs
  4. 21 Oct - draft of complete document
  5. Thu 25 Oct - ask HCLS to permit publication of editor's draft on w3.org
  6. November - editor reacts to comments
  7. Thu 22 Nov - ask HCLS to permit publication of revised editor's draft for w3.org
  8. throughout Dec - attempt to get HCLS endorsement of some draft
  9. Thu 31 Dec - HCLS interest group charter expires