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Mission
The mission of the Data on the Web Best Practices Working Group, part of the Data Activity, is:
- to develop the open data ecosystem, facilitating better communication between developers and publishers;
- to provide guidance to publishers that will improve consistency in the way data is managed, thus promoting the re-use of data;
- to foster trust in the data among developers, whatever technology they choose to use, increasing the potential for genuine innovation.
The guidance will take two forms: a set of best practices that apply to multiple technologies, and vocabularies currently missing but that are needed to support the data ecosystem on the Web.
Organization
The scope of the working group is very broad (significantly broader than most W3C Working Groups) and is clarified through its Use Cases and Requirements document [Latest published version] [Editors' Draft].
The WG benefits from having 4 co-chairs:
- Hadley Beeman (Invited Expert)
- Deirdre Lee (Derilinx)
- Yasodara Córdova, Developer Relations/Technical Lead (NIC.br/W3C Brasil)
- Steven Adler, Perspective & Community Outreach (IBM)
Deliverables
Use cases
Editors: Deirdre Lee and Bernadette Loscio
- Latest published version
- Use Cases
- New Use Cases based on Second Published Working Draft
- Use cases timetable
- The Editor's Draft
- The challenges that the use cases editors have pulled from our use cases. (See all 4 worksheets/tabs in the document)
- A matrix mapping requirements to the use-cases they are based on.
- Use-Cases Requirements RDF
Best Practices
Series editors:
- Bernadette
- Caroline
- Newton
Contributors:
- Metadata (it was: Guidance on the Provision of Metadata)
- Makx, Carlos, Laufer, Bernadette
- Data Vocabularies (it was: Use of core vocabularies to improve interoperability and Making controlled vocabularies accessible as URI sets)
- Bart, Eric K, Giancarlo, João Paulo, Ig
- Mark, Antoine
- Data Formats
- Eric K, SumitPurohit
- Data Identification (it was: URI, URI Design and Management for Persistence, URIs versus APIs)
- W3C Editor's Draft (Compact Uniform Resource Identifier (COMURI) - mirror)
- Tomas Carrasco
- Phil, Carlos, Tomas, Flavio, Makx, Newton
- Data Versioning (it was: Publishing and accessing versions of datasets)
- Flavio, Newton
- Data Preservation (it was: Data preservation)
- Phil, Christophe
- Data Enrichment
- Adriano C. M. Pereira, Adriano Veloso, Gisele Pappa, Wagner Meira Jr.
Documents:
- Glossary
- Table of Contents of Data on the Web Best Practices
- Best practices notes
- Best practices repository
- Technical factors for consideration when choosing data sets for publication
- Technical factors affecting potential use of open data for innovation, efficiency and commercial exploitation
Data quality vocabulary
Editor(s): Antoine, Christophe
Contributor(s): Riccardo, Bart, Deirdre, Phil, Makx, Jeremy
Data usage vocabulary
Editor(s): Bernadette, Eric S
Contributor(s): Ig, Ivan, Phil
About the group
The mission of the Data on the Web Best Practices Working Group, part of the Data Activity, is:
- to develop the open data ecosystem, facilitating better communication between developers and publishers;
- to provide guidance to publishers that will improve consistency in the way data is managed, thus promoting the re-use of data;
- to foster trust in the data among developers, whatever technology they choose to use, increasing the potential for genuine innovation.
The guidance will take two forms: a set of best practices that apply to multiple technologies, and vocabularies currently missing but that are needed to support the data ecosystem on the Web.
Read the charter and join the Working Group.
Nearby
- Mailing lists
- All Working Group participants are automatically subscribed to the group's main discussion list public-dwbp-wg (public archive).
- Comments from the public on the documents produced by the Working Group are welcome on the general public comment list public-dwbp-comments (public archive). All Working Group participants are automatically subscribed to this mailing list, too.
- Open Issues and Open Actions can be followed through Tracker
Recent Meetings & Minutes
A complete record of all agendas and minutes is available on the Meetings page.
Main Deliverables
| Editor's Draft | Timetable | Editors |
|---|---|---|
| Use Cases | Use cases timetable | Deirdre Lee
Bernadette Farias Loscio |
| Best Practice for Web Data URI | BP timetable | M.T. Carrasco Benitez |
| Data Usage Description Vocabulary | Data usage vocab timetable | Bernadette Farias Loscio and Eric Stephan |
| Quality and Granularity Description Vocabulary | Quality vocab timetable |
See the charter for full details
Additional Working Group Reading Resources
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)
- Telco tools
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.
Participants
- Chairs: Hadley Beeman (Invited Expert), Deirdre Lee (Insight Ireland), Yasodara Córdova (NIC.br/W3C Brasil), Steven Adler (IBM)
- Team Contact: Phil Archer <phila@w3.org>
- List of participants
How you can join in
You are welcome to send comments to the WG through the public comment mailing list [archive]
