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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.
The group's charter has more information.
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.
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
Chairs
The WG benefits from having 4 co-chairs:
- Hadley Beeman (Invited Expert)
- Deirdre Lee (Derilinx)
- Yasodara Córdova, Web Specialist (Ceweb.br/W3C Brasil)
- Steven Adler, Perspective & Community Outreach (IBM)
W3C Team Contact: Phil Archer <phila@w3.org>
How you can join in
You are welcome to send comments to the WG through the public comment mailing list [archive]
Deliverables
- Use Cases & Requirements, see Ucr
- Data on the Web Best Practices, see Dwbp
- Data Quality Vocabulary, see Dqv
- Dataset Usage Vocabulary, see Duv
Wish List
The WG has created a Wish List of things it would like to see developed further by a future Working Group.
Recent Meetings & Minutes
A complete record of all agendas and minutes is available on the Meetings page.
Additional Working Group Reading Resources
- Reading Material for DWBP Working Group Members
- Other data sharing protocols
- 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.
