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<h1>Semantic Web Best Practices and Deployment (SWBPD) Working Group
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Charter</h1>
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<h2>Status of this Document</h2>
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<p>Per section <a
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href="http://www.w3.org/2004/02/Process-20040205/groups.html#GAGeneral">6
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Working Groups, Interest Groups, and Coordination Groups</a> of the W3C
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Process, this charter, and any changes to it, take effect by way of an
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announcement to the W3C Membership via <a
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href="http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Member/w3c-ac-members/">w3c-ac-members</a>.</p>
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<p>This charter was approved by the W3C Director in an announcement to the
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W3C Membership on 25 February, 2004. The <a href="#changelog">change log</a>
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summarizes changes from the <a href="/2004/01/12-swbpd-charter">proposed
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charter</a>.</p>
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<h2>About</h2>
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<p>The Semantic Web Best Practices and Deployment (SWBPD) Working Group is
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focused on providing consensus-based guidance - including practical
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deployment recommendations, engineering guidelines, ontology / vocabulary
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development practices, educational material and effective demonstrations,
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designed to facilitate <a href="/2001/sw/">Semantic Web</a> deployment.</p>
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<h2>Contents</h2>
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<ul class="toc">
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<li><a href="#sec1">1. Scope</a>
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<ul class="toc">
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<li><a href="#sec11">1.1 General aim</a></li>
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<li><a href="#sec12">1.2 Focus areas</a></li>
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<li><a href="#sec13">1.3 Out of scope</a></li>
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</ul>
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</li>
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<li><a href="#sec2">2. Deliverables and Schedule</a></li>
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<li><a href="#sec3">3. Relationship with Other Activities</a>
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<ul class="toc">
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<li><a href="#sec31">3.1 W3C activities</a></li>
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<li><a href="#sec32">3.2 External groups</a></li>
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</ul>
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</li>
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<li><a href="#sec4">4. Membership, Meetings, and Logistics</a>
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<ul class="toc">
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<li><a href="#sec41">4.1 Email communication</a></li>
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<li><a href="#sec42">4.2 Group home page</a></li>
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<li><a href="#sec43">4.3 Telephone meetings</a></li>
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<li><a href="#sec44">4.4 Face-to-face meetings</a></li>
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</ul>
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</li>
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<li><a href="#sec5">5. Resources</a>
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<ul class="toc">
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<li><a href="#sec51">5.1 WG participation</a></li>
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<li><a href="#sec52">5.2 W3C team involvement</a></li>
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</ul>
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</li>
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<li><a href="#sec6">6. Intellectual Property Rights</a></li>
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</ul>
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<h2><a name="sec1" id="sec1">1. Scope</a></h2>
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<h3><a name="sec11" id="sec11">1.1 General aim</a></h3>
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The aim of this Semantic Web Best Practices and Deployment (SWBPD) Working
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Group is to provide hands-on support for developers of Semantic Web
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applications. With the publication of the revised RDF and the new OWL
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specification we expect a large number of new application developers. Some
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evidence of this could be seen at the last International Semantic Web
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Conference in Florida, which featured a wide range of applications, including
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10 submissions to the Semantic Web Challenge (see <a
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href="http://challenge.semanticweb.org/">http://challenge.semanticweb.org/</a>).This
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working group will help application developers by providing them with "best
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practices" in various forms, ranging from engineering guidelines, ontology /
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vocabulary repositories to educational material and demo applications.
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<p>This Working Group is intended to capitalize on work already been done.
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This work is typically spread over a range of disciplines and communities,
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combining experience from industry and computer science with research
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insights from fields as diverse as philosophy, linguistics, library science,
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psychology, conceptual modeling, and domain modeling, amongst others. This
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work is typically spread over a range of disciplines: philosophy,
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linguistics, library science, psychology, conceptual modeling, domain
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modeling, etc.</p>
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<p>The working group will focus on four areas for providing support.</p>
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<h3><a name="sec12" id="sec12">1.2 Focus areas</a></h3>
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<h4><a name="focus1" id="focus1">1.2.1 Focus: Supporting initiatives for
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publishing ontologies / vocabularies</a></h4>
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<p>In various domains large ontologies, including vocabularies and thesauri,
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have been constructed. Typically, these corpora are the result of many years
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of collaborative effort in a community. Such corpora form indispensable
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resources for Semantic Web applications. One prime objective of the SWBPD
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Working Group is to help make these resources publicly available for
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application developers.</p>
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<p>To this end the working group will undertake the following activities:</p>
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<ul>
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<li>Produce a Working Group Note on guidelines for transforming an existing
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representation into an RDF/OWL representation. This note should be based
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on experiences in this area (e.g. the <a
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href="http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-rdf-interest/2003Nov/0095.html">Calendar</a>
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work).</li>
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<li>Work with ontology / vocabulary owners to convert their corpora to
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RDF/OWL.</li>
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<li>Support the publication of the resulting RDF/OWL ontology on a publicly
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accessible spot.</li>
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</ul>
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<p>The result should be a set of publicly available high-profile ontologies.
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The following is an indicative (nonlimitative) list of existing ontologies at
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which this focus area is targeted:</p>
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<ul>
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<li>Lexical corpora: e.g., <a
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href="http://www.semanticweb.org/library/#wordnet">WordNet,</a>, <a
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href="http://www.icsi.berkeley.edu/~framenet/">FrameNet</a>, non-English
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versions of WordNet (EuroWordNet)</li>
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<li><a href="http://dublincore.org/">Dublin Core</a> and its
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specializations (e.g. <a href="http://www.vraweb.org/vracore3.htm">VRA
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Core Categories</a>)</li>
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<li>Cultural-heritage standards/thesauri: e.g., <a
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href="http://www.getty.edu/research/conducting_research/vocabularies/">the
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Getty thesauri</a> (Art and Architecture Thesaurus, Union List of Artist
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Names, Thesaurus of Geographic Names), <a
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href="http://www.iconclass.nl">ICONCLASS</a>, <a
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href="http://cidoc.ics.forth.gr/index.html">CIDOC CRM</a></li>
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<li>Medical vocabularies: e.g., <a
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href="http://www.nlm.nih.gov/research/umls/">UMLS</a>, <a
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href="http://www.opengalen.org/">OpenGALEN</a>, <a
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href="http://www.mindswap.org/2003/CancerOntology/">NCI cancer
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ontology</a></li>
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<li>Product vocabularies: e.g., <a
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href="http://www.rosettanet.org/">RosettaNet</a>, <a
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href="http://www.unspsc.org/">UNSPSC</a>, <a
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href="http://www.census.gov/epcd/www/naics.html">NAICS</a></li>
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<li>Molecular biology: e.g., <a href="http://www.geneontology.org/">Gene
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Ontology</a></li>
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<li>Foundational ontologies: e.g., units and measures, engineering
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mathematics, <a href="http://www.loa-cnr.it/DOLCE.html">DOLCE</a>, Cohn's
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spatial ontology, Allen's time ontology, URIs for Geography and Languages
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(c.f. <a
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href="http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/tc_home.php?wg_abbrev=geolang">related
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Topic Maps work</a>).</li>
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<li>Large common-sense ontologies: e.g., <a
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href="http://suo.ieee.org/">SUO</a>, <a
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href="http://www.opencyc.org/">OpenCyc</a> <a
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href="http://dmoz.org/">Open Directory Project</a></li>
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</ul>
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Criteria for an ontology to be within the scope of this Working Group are:
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<ul>
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<li>The ontology is the result of the collaborative work in some community
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and represents some form of consensus.</li>
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<li>The ontology has a user community.</li>
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<li>The ontology owner is maintaining the ontology.</li>
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<li>The ontology owner is willing to make the ontology publicly available
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on a <a
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href="/Consortium/Patent-Policy-20040205/#sec-Requirements">Royalty Free
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basis</a>.</li>
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</ul>
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<p>Related works to be considered include <a
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href="http://www.w3c.rl.ac.uk/SWAD/thesaurus.html">SWAD Europe work on
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thesauri</a>, <a href="http://www.schemaweb.info/">SchemaWeb</a> as well as
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similar initiatives.</p>
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<h4><a name="focus2" id="focus2">1.2.2 Focus: FAQs and how-to-do-it
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guidelines</a></h4>
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<p>The goal of this focus area is to provide support for practical issues
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related to ontology / vocabulary engineering and use for the Semantic Web.</p>
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<p>The Working Group will be the sponsoring group for the RDF in XHTML Task
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Force [<a href="http://www.w3.org/2003/08/rdf-in-xhtml-charter">charter</a>,
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<a href="http://www.w3.org/2003/03/rdf-in-xml.html">work plan</a>], currently
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chartered under the Semantic Web Coordination Group. The Working Group will,
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in conjunction with the HTML Working Group, provide a solution for
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representing RDF metadata within an XHMTL document.</p>
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<p>Additional task forces may be created to investigate specific deployment
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issues, especially those which have a connection to other W3C work. The
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development of an RDF Schema or OWL Ontology for the XML Schema datatypes is
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an example of such a task force.</p>
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<p>Other Working Group Notes may be developed from topics brought by Working
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Group participants. Research topics are out of scope. Examples of possible
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guideline development include:</p>
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<ul>
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<li>Design patterns for constructing ontologies, covering typical modeling
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problems such as defaults, part-of, .... As an example of a Wiki-based
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pattern, see Chris Welty's <a
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href="http://esw.w3.org/topic/PartWhole">part-whole pattern</a>.</li>
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<li>Naming conventions for classes/properties/individuals;</li>
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<li>Ontology mapping: how to use multiple heterogeneous ontologies in an
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interoperable way.</li>
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<li>Ontology integration/unification vs. mapping (the latter is usually
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preferred)</li>
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</ul>
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<p>to the extent that these topics (above) consider practical deployment
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questions and avoid areas of research. The WG should give priority to topics
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concerning interoperability as well as to topics that relate to other W3C
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work.</p>
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<p>The Working Group may choose to create or contribute to an index of:</p>
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<ul>
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<li>links to course materials</li>
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<li>links to introductory texts: e.g. "Ontologies for Dummies"</li>
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<li>collections of worked-out examples, covering a broad range of
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fields</li>
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<li>pointers to knowledge-elicitation techniques</li>
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</ul>
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<p>Working Group Notes that could be produced:</p>
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<ul>
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<li>How to use Semantic markup on your web page</li>
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<li>Differences in world view between description logic, frames and
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first-order logic</li>
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<li>Identifying the backbone of an ontology [Rector, OntoClean]</li>
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</ul>
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<h4><a name="focus3" id="focus3">1.2.3 Focus: Repository of tools and demo
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applications</a></h4>
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<p>The Working Group will cooperate with and contribute to efforts to
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maintain a Tool and application index. This index should provide data in RDF
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and OWL format in addition to a human-friendly presentation format. The index
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should provide only references to materials when they have a home elsewhere
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in the Web but may host materials developed by or contributed to the Working
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Group. The Working Group may choose to offer some 'value add' by highlighting
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materials that in its view support the Working Group's other Focus Areas in
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some noteworthy manner.</p>
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<ul>
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<li>Example tool types
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<ul>
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<li>RDF/RDFS/OWL parsers</li>
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<li>benchmarking tools</li>
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<li>visualization tools. e.g. <a
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href="http://www.w3.org/2001/11/IsaViz/">IsaViz</a>, <a
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href="http://rdfweb.org/people/damian/RDFAuthor/">RDFAuthor</a>, <a
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href="http://www.research.att.com/sw/tools/graphviz/">GraphViz</a></li>
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<li>validators/checkers</li>
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<li>reasoners</li>
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<li>query languages, rule languages, APIs</li>
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<li>ontology editors</li>
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<li>tools for marking up web pages</li>
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</ul>
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</li>
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<li>Typical demo applications
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<ul>
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<li><a href="http://challenge.semanticweb.org/">Semantic Web
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Challenge</a></li>
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<li><a href="http://www.w3.org/2002/12/cal/">RDF Calendar</a></li>
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<li><a href="http://www.foaf-project.org/">FOAF</a> (Friend of a
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Friend)</li>
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<li>W3C glossary</li>
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<li>Example web pages using RDF/OWL mark-up</li>
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<li>Using the Working Group itself as demo application (use of ICal,
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annotation of pages, etc.)</li>
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</ul>
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</li>
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</ul>
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<p>Preference is given to open-source software.</p>
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<p class="note">NOTE: This focus area is likely to be carried out in
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coordination with activities in the DAML program, e.g. on open-source tools
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for OWL.</p>
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<h4><a name="focus4" id="focus4">1.2.4 Focus: Links to related
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techniques</a></h4>
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<p>The Working Group will consider publishing Working Group Notes on links to
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related (standardization) efforts. The goal of such notes will be to provide
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guidelines for users who want to combine usage of the two fields. Typical
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topics for such notes would be:</p>
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<ul>
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<li>interoperable use of MPEG and RDF/OWL annotations and/or ontologies</li>
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<li>using UML for ontology development/visualization</li>
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<li>the relationship between Semantic Web and Topic Maps</li>
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<li>the relationship between Semantic Web and databases</li>
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</ul>
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<p>This should typically be done in cooperation with the other organizations
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involved (MPEG, OASIS, OMG)</p>
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<h3><a name="sec13" id="sec13">1.3 Out of scope</a></h3>
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<ul>
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<li>Ontologies / vocabularies that do not meet the criteria set out for
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focus area 1 are out of scope.</li>
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<li>Guidelines that are not based on some form of established practice are
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out of scope.</li>
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<li>Proprietary information (software which is not open source, ontologies
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which are not publicly available on a royalty-free basis) will not be
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addressed by this group.</li>
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<li>The relation to web services is not the primary focus of the working
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group.</li>
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<li>Work that requires basic research is out of scope.</li>
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<li>Duplication of effort; areas that are being adequately addressed in
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other parts of the RDF and OWL community should be treated as out of
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scope.</li>
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<li>Endorsement of specific tools is out of scope.</li>
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</ul>
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<h2><a name="sec2" id="sec2">2. Deliverables and Schedule</a></h2>
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<p>This Working Group is chartered for a duration of 23 months, through 1
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May 2006. The kick-off meeting is planned to be held on <b>March 4-5 2004
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at the <a href="http://www.w3.org/2003/08/allgroupoverview.html">W3C Tech
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Plenary in Cannes</a></b>.</p>
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<p>The Working Group will initiate task forces for producing Working Group
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notes. These task forces will typically operate in the following way:</p>
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<ul>
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<li>The time frame of a task force is short-term, e.g. 4 (2-6) months</li>
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<li>The editors/coordinators of a task force are selected from the Working
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Group participants.</li>
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<li>A task force may recommend non-Member individuals with relevant skills
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to participate in the task force as invited experts. The normal <a
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href="http://www.w3.org/2003/06/Process-20030618/groups.html#invited-expert-wg">invited
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expert</a> process will be followed. Final decision on any task force
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issue rests with the whole Working Group.</li>
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<li>The task force size should be 4-8 people</li>
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<li>Task forces use the regular Working Group communication channels.</li>
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<li>The result of this work is proposed to the full Working Group for
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consideration and discussion on next steps.</li>
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</ul>
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<p>The Working Group may consider using Wiki techniques to facilitate its
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work, particularly for data collection or FAQs, however formally edited and
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published Working Group Notes are to be preferred over Wikis for
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dissemination of guidelines. When the material is appropriate, the Working
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Group will use the <a
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href="http://www.w3.org/2004/02/Process-20040205/tr.html#Reports">W3C
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Recommendation Track Process</a> to propose the advancement of technical
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reports to Recommendation.</p>
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<p>The Working Group will consider producing a short note about how the
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Working Group determines what is a best practice, e.g. that it should be
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based on real implementations. The <a
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href="http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/uddi-spec/doc/bps.htm">best-practices
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process</a> of the OASIS UDDI Spec TC could serve as useful input.</p>
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<h2><a name="sec3" id="sec3">3. Relationship with Other Activities</a></h2>
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<h3><a name="sec31" id="sec31">3.1 W3C-related activities</a></h3>
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<ul>
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<li>The W3C <a href="http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/interest/">Semantic Web
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Interest Group</a></li>
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<li><a href="http://www.w3.org/2000/01/sw/">SWAD-MIT</a></li>
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<li><a href="http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/Europe/">SWAD-Europe</a></li>
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<li>The W3C <a href="http://www.w3.org/2002/ws/swsig/">Semantic Web
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Services Interest Group</a></li>
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<li>The W3C <a href="http://www.w3.org/XML/Group/Schemas">XML Schema WG</a>
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especially for datatype discussions</li>
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<li>The W3C <a href="http://www.w3.org/International/">Internationalization
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Activity</a> especially if language ontologies are discussed</li>
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</ul>
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<h3><a name="sec32" id="sec32">3.2 External groups</a></h3>
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<ul>
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<li><a href="http://www.daml.org/">DAML program</a></li>
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<li>European IST projects: <a
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href="http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/Europe/">SWAD-Europe</a>, <a
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href="http://knowledgeweb.semanticweb.org">Knowledge Web</a></li>
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<li>OMG: UML profile for OWL</li>
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<h2><a name="sec4" id="sec4">4. Membership, Meetings, and Logistics</a></h2>
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<p>To become a participant of the Working Group, a representative of a W3C
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Member organization must be nominated by their Advisory Committee
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nomination must include explicit agreement to this charter, including its
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goals, the level of effort required and an IPR disclosure.</p>
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<p>Experts from appropriate communities may also be invited to join the
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working group, following the <a
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process.</a></p>
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<p>Each Working Group participant is expected to contribute 20%, or at least
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<p>All proceedings of the Working Group (mail archives, telecon minutes, ftf
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minutes) will be available to the public.</p>
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<p>Working Group participants are not obligated to participate in every task
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force, however the Working Group as a whole is responsible for reviewing and
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accepting the output of each task force. Task force participants are expected
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to participate in WG face-to-face meetings and telecons where the work of the
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task force is on the agenda.</p>
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<h3><a name="sec41" id="sec41">4.1 Email communication</a></h3>
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<p>The mailing list for group communication is <a
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href="mailto:public-swbp-wg@w3.org">public-swbp-wg@w3.org</a> with a publicly
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readable <a
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href="http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-swbp-wg/">archive</a>.</p>
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<h3><a name="sec42" id="sec42">4.2 Group home page</a></h3>
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<p>The Working Group will have a home page that records the history of the
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group, provides access to the archives, meeting minutes, updated schedule of
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deliverables, membership list, and relevant documents and resources. The page
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will be available to the public and will be maintained by one of the
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co-chairs in collaboration with the W3C team contact.</p>
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<h3><a name="sec43" id="sec43">4.3 Telephone meetings</a></h3>
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<p>The Working Group will hold teleconferences approximately every two weeks.
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Participation in phone conferences is limited to members of the working
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group. The Chair may, at his discretion, invite guest experts to attend
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particular phone conferences. An IRC channel may be used to supplement
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teleconferences.</p>
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<p>Meeting records should be made available within two days of each telephone
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meeting.</p>
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<h3><a name="sec44" id="sec44">4.4 Face-to-face meetings</a></h3>
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<p>Participation in face-to-face meetings is limited to working group members
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and observers invited by the Chair. Observers may take part in
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decision-making at the discretion of the Chair.</p>
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<p>In addition to the required two annual face-to-face meetings, the Working
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Group may schedule other face-to-face meetings in a manner that maximizes
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co-location with events that Working Group members might be attending
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anyway.</p>
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<p>The Chair makes Working Group meeting dates and locations available to the
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group at least eight weeks before the meeting, per W3C Process.</p>
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<h2><a name="sec5" id="sec5">5. Resources</a></h2>
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<h3><a name="sec51" id="sec51">5.1 Working Group participation</a></h3>
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<p>To be successful, we expect to have between 10 and 20 active participants
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for the duration of this Working Group. We also expect a large public review
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group that will participate in the mailing list discussions.</p>
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<h3><a name="sec52" id="sec52">5.2 W3C team involvement</a></h3>
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<p>The W3C Team expects to allocate the equivalent of 40% of a full-time
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person to this work for the duration of this working group; through 1
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May 2006. This time includes the Team Contact effort as well as
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additional participation.</p>
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<h2><a name="sec6" id="sec6">6. Intellectual Property Rights</a></h2>
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<p>This Working Group operates under the <a
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href="http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Patent-Policy-20040205/">W3C Patent Policy
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(5 Feb 2004 Version)</a>. To promote the widest adoption of Web standards,
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W3C seeks to issue Recommendations that can be implemented, according to this
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policy, on a Royalty-Free basis.</p>
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preempting other efforts.
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of specific tools is out of scope.
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out of scope. Clarify 'outside people' as invited experts. Add XML Schema
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and I18N to list of relevant W3C activities.
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repository/archive/index work should be complementary and contributory
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to other existing indices and should not host materials that already
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have a suitable Web home.
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of another possible task force.
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interoperability and items that connect to other W3C work.
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over Wiki for formal publishing (revision to 2.Deliverables). Caution
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the WG to avoid research topics and to contribute to other indices
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of how-to-do-it components where those indices exist.
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