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Government Linked Data (GLD) Working Group
Mission: The mission of the Government Linked Data (GLD) Working Group is to provide standards and other information which help governments around the world publish their data as effective and usable Linked Data using Semantic Web technologies. (See Charter)
W3C Standards and Notes
- As they are created, links to the draft specifications from this group will be here for public inspection.
Deliverables
Latest official working drafts:
- Task Force Community Directory, see the main wiki page for the Community Directory Discussion Summary
- Outreach: Technology_Policy_Leaders
- Outreach: Civil_Society
- Task Force Best Practices for Publishing Linked Data, see the main wiki page for the Best Practices Discussion Summary
- Charter 2.2.1 Procurement
- Charter 2.2.2 Vocabulary Selection
- Charter 2.2.3 URI Construction
- Charter 2.2.4 Versioning
- Charter 2.2.5 Stability
- Charter 2.2.6 Legacy Data
- Charter 2.2.7 Linked Data Cookbook
- Task Force Standard Vocabularies, see the main wiki page for the Vocabulary Discussion Summary
- Charter 2.3.1 Data Catalog Vocabulary, Data Cube Vocabulary, Semiotics for Linked Data
- Charter 2.3.2 Statistical Cube Data
- Charter 2.3.3 People
- Charter 2.3.4 Organizational Structures
- Charter 2.3.5 Geography and Spatial Information
Note that we're using a Mercurial repository and ReSpec for formatting the deliverables.
Participation
Group Membership and Joining
We encourage new members of the group to introduce themselves by email. The [ https://www.w3.org/2000/09/dbwg/details?group=47663 Government Linked Data WG participants list] is available to W3C members.
If you want to join the group, please see complete instructions on How to Join
Schedule survey from 2011, see schedule survey.
See also: list of current participants, (or with contact info), wiki user pages, nicknames
If you want to join this group, see How to Join.
If you are officially in the group, you will automatically receive group email and your w3.org login and password will work on this wiki.
The email archive for public-gld-wg@w3.org is at http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-gld-wg/.
Meetings
Face-to-face:
- F2F1: 29-30 June 2011, near Washington, DC, USA (completed)
- F2F2: 25-26 Jan 2012, DERI Galway Ireland (scheduled)
Teleconferences (official participants and invited guests only):
- Time Thursdays 14:00-15:00 UTC (10:00-11:00 Boston, 7:00-8:00 San Francisco, 15:00-16:00 London, 16:00-17:00 Paris)
- Scribes
- Dial +1-617-761-6200 or sip:zakim@voip.w3.org then conference code 45394# ("GLDWG")
- IRC channel: #gld.
- An agenda is sent 24 hours in advance; minutes follow within a day or two.
Specific Meetings
- If you will miss a meeting, put your name on Regrets
| Date | Type | Subject | Minutes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Meetings:Telecon20120112 | 2455938.512 January 2012 | telecon | F2F2 planning, general updates | http://www.w3.org/2011/gld/meeting/2012-01-12 |
| Meetings:Telecon20120105 | 2455931.55 January 2012 | telecon | General Updates, review of deliverables, F2F2 planning | http://www.w3.org/2011/gld/meeting/2012-01-05 |
| Meetings:Telecon2011.12.15 | 2455910.515 December 2011 | telecon | General Updates, end of year review of deliverables, F2F2 planning | http://www.w3.org/2011/gld/meeting/2011-12-15 |
| Meetings:Telecon2011.12.08 | 2455903.58 December 2011 | telecon | General Updates | http://www.w3.org/2011/gld/meeting/2011-12-08 |
| Meetings:Telecon2011.11.28 | 2455893.528 November 2011 | telecon, ad hoc | Vocabularies, DCAT | http://www.w3.org/2011/gld/meeting/2011-11-28 |
| Meetings:Telecon2011.11.17 | 2455882.517 November 2011 | Weekly telecon | Community Directory, Vocabulary deliverables, F2F2 in DERI Galway | http://www.w3.org/2011/gld/meeting/2011-11-17 |
| Meetings:Telecon2011.11.10 | 2455875.510 November 2011 | Weekly telecon | Community Directory, Vocabulary deliverables, F2F2 in DERI Galway | http://www.w3.org/2011/gld/meeting/2011-11-10 |
| Meetings:Telecon2011.11.03 | 2455868.53 November 2011 | Weekly telecon | eGov Activity, Events discussion, Deliverable status, F2F planning | http://www.w3.org/2011/gld/meeting/2011-11-03 |
| Meetings:Telecon2011.10.27 | 2455861.527 October 2011 | Weekly telecon | eGov Activity, Open Government Data Camp 2011 review | http://www.w3.org/2011/gld/meeting/2011-10-27 |
| Meetings:Telecon2011.10.13 | 2455847.513 October 2011 | Weekly telecon | SEMIC.EU, GLD Standard Vocabularies | http://www.w3.org/2011/gld/meeting/2011-10-13 |
| Meetings:Telecon2011.10.06 | 2455840.56 October 2011 | Weekly telecon | Open Government Data, Deliverables Status | http://www.w3.org/2011/gld/meeting/2011-10-06 |
| Meetings:Telecon2011.09.29 | 2455833.529 September 2011 | Weekly telecon | Open Government Data, Deliverables Status | http://www.w3.org/2011/gld/meeting/2011-09-29 |
| Meetings:Telecon2011.09.22 | 2455826.522 September 2011 | Weekly telecon | Open Government Data, Deliverables Status | http://www.w3.org/2011/gld/meeting/2011-09-22 |
| Meetings:Telecon2011.09.15 | 2455819.515 September 2011 | Weekly telecon | Geospatial and LOV vocabs | http://www.w3.org/2011/gld/meeting/2011-09-15 |
| Meetings:Telecon2011.09.08 | 2455812.58 September 2011 | Weekly telecon | No specific | http://www.w3.org/2011/gld/meeting/2011-09-08 |
| Meetings:Telecon2011.09.01 | 2455805.51 September 2011 | Weekly telecon | No specific | http://www.w3.org/2011/gld/meeting/2011-09-01 |
| Meetings:Telecon2011.08.22 | 2455795.522 August 2011 | Telecon | Breakout Data Cube vocabulary discussion | http://www.w3.org/2011/gld/wiki/Meetings:Telecon2011.08.22#Notes |
| Meetings:Telecon2011.08.18 | 2455791.518 August 2011 | Weekly telecon | No specific | http://www.w3.org/2011/gld/meeting/2011-08-18 |
| Meetings:Telecon2011.08.04 | 2455777.54 August 2011 | Weekly telecon | No specific | http://www.w3.org/2011/gld/meeting/2011-08-04 |
| Meetings:Telecon2011.07.28 | 2455770.528 July 2011 | Weekly telecon | No specific | http://www.w3.org/2011/gld/meeting/2011-07-28 |
| Meetings:Telecon2011.07.21 | 2455763.521 July 2011 | Weekly telecon | No specific | http://www.w3.org/2011/gld/meeting/2011-07-21 |
| Meetings:Telecon2011.07.14 | 2455756.514 July 2011 | Weekly telecon | Cancelled | |
| Meetings:Telecon2011.07.07 | 2455749.57 July 2011 | Weekly telecon | No specific | http://www.w3.org/2011/gld/meeting/2011-07-07 |
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)
- CommonScribe (scribe tool) manual
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.
Staff
Email the chairs and staff contacts at team-gld-chairs@w3.org.
- George Thomas, US Dept. of Health and Human Services, Co-Chair
- Bernadette Hyland, 3 Round Stones, Co-Chair
- Sandro Hawke, W3C, Staff Contact
