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Mission
The mission of the Data on the Web Best Practices Working Group, part of the Data Activity, is:
- to develop the open data ecosystem, facilitating better communication between developers and publishers;
- to provide guidance to publishers that will improve consistency in the way data is managed, thus promoting the re-use of data;
- to foster trust in the data among developers, whatever technology they choose to use, increasing the potential for genuine innovation.
The guidance will take two forms: a set of best practices that apply to multiple technologies, and vocabularies currently missing but that are needed to support the data ecosystem on the Web.
Organization
The scope of the working group is very broad (significantly broader than most W3C Working Groups) and is clarified through its Use Cases and Requirements document [Latest published version] [Editors' Draft].
The WG benefits from having 4 co-chairs:
- Hadley Beeman (Invited Expert)
- Deirdre Lee (Derilinx)
- Yasodara Córdova, Web Specialist (Ceweb.br/W3C Brasil)
- Steven Adler, Perspective & Community Outreach (IBM)
Deliverables
Wish List
The list bellow suggests what the DWBP WG see as possible topics to be developed, that were not in the scope or could not be covered by this WG.
- Multimedia data on the Web
- DCAT update
- Best practices for creating vocabularies
Use cases
Editors: Deirdre Lee and Bernadette Loscio
- Latest published version
- Use Cases
- New Use Cases based on Second Published Working Draft
- Use cases timetable
- The Editor's Draft
- The challenges that the use cases editors have pulled from our use cases. (See all 4 worksheets/tabs in the document)
- A matrix mapping requirements to the use-cases they are based on.
- Use-Cases Requirements RDF
Best Practices
- Editor's draft
- Latest published draft
- Comment tracker
- DWBP Schedule
- F2F São Paulo - Agenda Proposal DWBP
- F2F Zagreb - Agenda Proposal DWBP
Editor(s): Bernadette, Caroline and Newton
Documents:
- Comments to be considered in the last call working draft
- Comment tracker status
- Call for BP Contributors
- Glossary
- [Scope]
- Context
- Table of Contents of Data on the Web Best Practices
- Best practices notes
- Best practices repository
- Technical factors for consideration when choosing data sets for publication
- Technical factors affecting potential use of open data for innovation, efficiency and commercial exploitation
- Call for BP example contributors
Data quality vocabulary
Editor(s): Antoine, Christophe, Riccardo
Data usage vocabulary
Editor(s): Bernadette, Eric S, Sumit
Contributor(s): Ig, Ivan, Phil
About the group
The mission of the Data on the Web Best Practices Working Group, part of the Data Activity, is:
- to develop the open data ecosystem, facilitating better communication between developers and publishers;
- to provide guidance to publishers that will improve consistency in the way data is managed, thus promoting the re-use of data;
- to foster trust in the data among developers, whatever technology they choose to use, increasing the potential for genuine innovation.
The guidance will take two forms: a set of best practices that apply to multiple technologies, and vocabularies currently missing but that are needed to support the data ecosystem on the Web.
Read the charter and join the Working Group.
Nearby
- Mailing lists
- All Working Group participants are automatically subscribed to the group's main discussion list public-dwbp-wg (public archive).
- Comments from the public on the documents produced by the Working Group are welcome on the general public comment list public-dwbp-comments (public archive). All Working Group participants are automatically subscribed to this mailing list, too.
- Open Issues and Open Actions can be followed through Tracker
Recent Meetings & Minutes
F2F Meetings
A complete record of all agendas and minutes is available on the Meetings page.
Main Deliverables
| Editor's Draft | Timetable | Editors |
|---|---|---|
| Use Cases | Use cases timetable | Deirdre Lee and Bernadette Farias Loscio |
| Data on the Web Best Practices | BP timetable | Bernadette Farias Lóscio, Caroline Burle and Newton Calegari |
| Data Usage Description Vocabulary | Data usage vocab timetable | Eric Stephan, Bernadette Farias Lóscio and Sumit Purohit |
| Quality and Granularity Description Vocabulary | Quality vocab timetable |
See the charter for full details
Additional Working Group Reading Resources
W3C Working Group Resources
- Art of Consensus (guide to working at W3C) (W3C member confidential)
- World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Process Document
- All W3C Groups (W3C member confidential)
- Telco tools
Patent Policy
This Working Group operates under the W3C Patent Policy (5 February 2004 Version). To promote the widest adoption of Web standards, W3C seeks to issue Recommendations that can be implemented, according to this policy, on a Royalty-Free basis.
For more information about disclosure obligations for this group, please see the W3C Patent Policy Status Page.
Participants
- Chairs: Hadley Beeman (Invited Expert), Deirdre Lee (Insight Ireland), Yasodara Córdova (NIC.br/W3C Brasil), Steven Adler (IBM)
- Team Contact: Phil Archer <[email protected]>
- List of participants
How you can join in
You are welcome to send comments to the WG through the public comment mailing list [archive]
