[xtm-wg] Re: The Future of TopicMaps.Org

[scott.tsao@boeing.com]

--- In xtm-wg@y..., Murray Altheim <altheim@e...> wrote:
> I'm going to be working in early June
> with Sean Palmer on a W3C Note mixing XHTML and Dublin Core. This 
would
> be one part of a greater whole. I think both XTM and RDF serve very 
> useful roles. [We're amassing our toys.]

Based on a recent interview on Tim B-L's view of the W3C Semantic Web 
Activity (http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2001/03/21/timbl.html): 

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ED: I'd like to ask about the Advanced Development side of the new 
Activity, which aims to involve non-W3C members in the development of 
the Semantic Web. Isn't this openness unusual?

TBL: We always design the Activity to suit the needs of the community 
at the time. Examples of infrastructural work in which we did this 
are the HTTP, URI, and XML Signature work. We wanted the attention of 
the community experts, and things required wide review. More of our 
Activities and working groups are moving toward a more public model; 
XML Protocol is a perfect example.

SW needs to be really open, as many resources for its growth are from 
the academic world. We need people who may at some point want to give 
the group the benefit of their experience, without having a permanent 
relationship with the consortium.

It's not particularly novel. It's combining the RDF Interest Group 
with W3C internal development stuff. We need to find what the 
Knowledge Representation community have got that's ripe for 
standardization, and what it hasn't and so on. Coordination will be 
very important.
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I would suggest that activities like yours (amassing the SW toys) be 
conducted as part of the W3C Semantic Web Advanced Development 
(http://www.w3.org/2000/01/sw/).  Although I was very surprised (and 
disappointed) by not seeing any mention of TM on that page, TBL's 
response as shown above gave me hope.

Scott Tsao
The Boeing Company




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