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Subject: Re: [xtm-wg] Re: The Future of TopicMaps.Org
scott.tsao@boeing.com wrote: > > --- In xtm-wg@y..., Murray Altheim <altheim@e...> wrote: > > The members of TopicMaps.Org are quite aware of the W3C Semantic Web > > activity and are endeavouring to coordinate with various activities > > as they arise [...] > > The RDF Core Working Group Charter > (http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/RDFCoreWGCharter) states: > > ==================================================================== > 3. Relationships and Dependencies > > Coordination with other groups will be managed through the Semantic > Web Coordination Group. > > The Topic Maps community have produced an XML-based Topic Map > serialization syntax (XTM), and the W3C XML Protocol Working Group is > already chartered to produce a similar mechanism. The XML Protocol > Working Group Charter lists as a goal the creation of a "mechanism > for serializing data representing non-syntactic data models such as > object graphs and directed labeled graphs, based on the datatypes of > XML Schema". The RDF Core WG will need to liaise with the XML > Protocol Working Group and XTM communities to ensure that the RDF > Core specifications are produced with consideration for possible > future work on alternate RDF syntaxes. > ==================================================================== > > Since the W3C XML Protocol Working Group is chartered to "produce a > similar mechanism" like XTM, couldn't XTM be submitted as a Note to > the W3C for XML Protocol Working Group? How aware are you with the > XMLP WG activities? I work for a company that is a W3C member and I read almost all of the W3C messages as well as our internal conversations. I am aware of this charter, though I have a tough time with them simply taking the concept and ignoring us. Since many or most of the TopicMaps.Org members are not W3C members, we immediately exclude a substantial part of our own community. That's unacceptable. I'm also don't agree that the protocol working group is really the right place for this kind of activity. XTM is not a protocol but a knowledge representation technology. I don't think the kind of expertise that would be drawn into a protocol group would match that needed. The Semantic Web group includes people we've already begun relationships with, and this seems a much more appropriate location for this work. So I take this part of the charter as a liaison activity with those of us who've been developing this technology, and we're endeavouring to move further work into OASIS where we would have a more formal organizational structure from which to perform that liaison. As for submitting XTM as a W3C Note, this has already occurred. We have some legal barriers to its publication (to my understanding), which would be resolved were we to be in OASIS. In a nutshell, we've done our homework and are active in the process of coordinating with the W3C as much as is possible. Murray ........................................................................... Murray Altheim <mailto:altheim@eng.sun.com> XML Technology Center Sun Microsystems, Inc., MS MPK17-102, 1601 Willow Rd., Menlo Park, CA 94025 In the evening The rice leaves in the garden Rustle in the autumn wind That blows through my reed hut. -- Minamoto no Tsunenobu To Post a message, send it to: xtm-wg@eGroups.com To Unsubscribe, send a blank message to: xtm-wg-unsubscribe@eGroups.com Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
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