Re: [office-metadata] W3C RDFa

[Svante Schubert <Svante.Schubert@Sun.COM>]

Hi Elias,

thanks for clarifying!

PS: I added the RDFa links now to 
http://wiki.oasis-open.org/office/Metadata_Field_Brainstorming

Cheers,
Svante

Elias Torres wrote:
> We are in a state of flux at the moment because we are not our own
> working group. We were a task force under two other working groups:
> HTML WG and SWBP WG. The charter for the SWBP has concluded and now
> there a new group called the SWD (Semantic Web Deployment) WG. Once
> the new WG has been fully established and we are in sync with their
> charter I'll have a better idea when they will become working drafts.
>
> Short answer, I'll find out from the chair of the RDFa Task Force why
> is not a WD already. Gosh, I hate so much politics.
>
> -Elias
>
> On 11/23/06, Svante Schubert <Svante.Schubert@sun.com> wrote:
>> Hi Elias,
>>
>> do you know if and when it is planned that these documents will become
>> Working Drafts in the terms of the W3C process [1]?
>> As I stated earlier they are currently "without official standing within
>> the W3C".
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Svante
>>
>> [1] http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Process/tr.html#maturity-levels
>>
>>
>> Elias Torres wrote:
>> > http://www.w3.org/2006/07/SWD/RDFa/primer
>> > http://www.w3.org/2006/07/SWD/RDFa/syntax
>> >
>> > Those are the correct links. They are not finalized, they are simply
>> > working drafts, but like I mentioned in the call, we have enough
>> > design for what we need when it comes to the set of attributes in the
>> > ODF XML content documents. This way we won't have a dependency on the
>> > standardization of RDFa. However, the closer we are to the final spec,
>> > the better it can be for everyone. It's also important to note, that
>> > we have a slightly different situation than RDFa because we have a
>> > custom XML set of schemas as opposed to (X)HTML to deal with so in one
>> > or way or another it might be hard to perfectly align ourselves with
>> > all of RDFa requirements and design decisions. In addition, we'll be
>> > using RDF/XML and other standards (like XML, RelaxNG, etc) for the
>> > meta.xml parts of our specification.
>> >
>> > -Elias
>> >
>> > On 11/23/06, Svante Schubert <Svante.Schubert@sun.com> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Bruce D'Arcus wrote:
>> >> > On Nov 23, 2006, at 6:47 AM, Svante Schubert wrote:
>> >> >> PS: The RDFa link from
>> >> >> http://wiki.oasis-open.org/office/Metadata_Field_Brainstorming 
>> does
>> >> >> not give clues about the specification, either.
>> >> >
>> >> > Feel free to add them.
>> >> Sure, as soon we know of what specification we are actually talking
>> >> about.
>> >>
>> >> Svante
>> >>
>> >>
>>