[topicmapmail] Announcing SKOS Core 2nd Public Working Drafts

[Miles, AJ (Alistair)]

  W3C Semantic Web Best Practices and Deployment Working Group=20

We are pleased to announce the publication of the following technical =
reports as
second W3C Public Working Drafts:

  SKOS Core Guide=20
  http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-swbp-skos-core-guide-20051102/

  SKOS Core Vocabulary Specification
  http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-swbp-skos-core-spec-20051102/

For a summary of revisions since first Working Draft publication see:

http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-swbp-skos-core-spec-20051102/#secchanges

SKOS Core is a simple, flexible and extensible language for expressing =
in a
machine-understandable form the structure and content of concept schemes =
such as
thesauri, classification schemes, subject heading lists, taxonomies,
'folksonomies', other types of controlled vocabulary, and also concept =
schemes
embedded in glossaries and terminologies.

For links to tutorials, presentations, development information, version =
history,
translations, proposals, datasets and more see the SKOS Core home page:

http://www.w3.org/2004/02/skos/core/

The SKOS Core Vocabulary is an application of the Resource Description =
Framework
(RDF).  Using RDF allows data to be linked to and/or merged with other =
data. In
practice, this means that distributed sources of data can be =
meaningfully
composed and integrated.

For more information about RDF and related specifications, see the =
Semantic Web
Activity home page:

http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/

The 'SKOS Core Guide' is a guide to the recommended usage of the SKOS =
Core
Vocabulary, for readers who already have a basic understanding of RDF =
concepts.

The 'SKOS Core Vocabulary Specification' gives a reference-style =
overview of the
SKOS Core Vocabulary, and describes policies for ownership, naming, =
persistence
and change management.

These reports are second public Working Drafts, and are work in =
progress.  We
ask at this stage for feedback from anyone with a potential interest in =
using
these specifications, or with relevant expertise.  Please send comments =
and
suggestions on these drafts to public-esw-thes@w3.org and begin the =
subject line
of the message with 'comment:'.  If possible, please send comments =
before 31st
January 2006.=20

The Semantic Web Best Practices and Deployment Working Group is =
committed to a
public, consensus-driven design environment for SKOS Core, and to this =
end
conducts all SKOS-related discussion in public, in particular drawing on
feedback from the Semantic Web Interest Group mailing list:

  public-esw-thes@w3.org

This work has benefited greatly from contributions made
by the members of this mailing list, and their feedback, suggestions and
encouragement are gratefully acknowledged.  The public-esw-thes@w3.org =
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Yours on behalf of W3C Semantic Web Best Practices and Deployment =
Working Group,

Alistair Miles

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Alistair Miles
Research Associate
CCLRC - Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
Building R1 Room 1.60
Fermi Avenue
Chilton
Didcot
Oxfordshire OX11 0QX
United Kingdom
Email: a.j.miles@rl.ac.uk
Tel: +44 (0)1235 445440