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> Sent: Monday, August 09, 1999 3:48 PM
> To: Eric Miller
> Subject: FW: Call for Participation: RDF Interest Group
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> > From: 	Janet Daly[SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
> > Sent: 	Monday, August 09, 1999 3:40:52 PM
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> > Subject: 	Call for Participation: RDF Interest Group
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> On behalf of the Director and the RDF Interest Group chair:
> 
> The Membership is hereby invited to participate in the RDF Interest
> Group.  The charter is included below [1].  
> 
> To join, send a message 
> 
> 	To: [log in to unmask]
> 	Subject: subscribe
> 
> The RDF Interest Group is part of the W3C Metadata Activity, whose
> charter [2] will be up for reconsideration in December.
> 
> 
> [2] http://www.w3.org/Metadata/Group/CGcharter
> 
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> 
> Janet Daly, Head of Public Relations
> World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)
> 
> voice: 617.253.5884
> fax:   617.258.5999 
> http://www.w3.org/
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> =====================================
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> [1] http://www.w3.org/RDF/IGcharter
> 
> 1.0 Purpose
> 
> The RDF Interest Group is a forum for W3C Members and non-Members to
> discuss innovative metadata applications. The interest group 
> will focus
> primarily on applications of the Resource Description Framework,
> potential future work items related to RDF, and the 
> relationship of that
> work to other activities of W3C and to the broader social and legal
> context in which the Web is situated. 
> 
> The RDF Interest Group will address both 
> architectural/systems issues as
> well as application (e.g. T&S) interests; it is a forum for everyone
> interested in storing, exchanging, searching, and using metadata. As
> such, the RDF Interest Group will also consider a number of areas
> addressed previously by the PICS initiative. Specifically, 
> the Interest
> Group will explore the application of W3C metadata technology in the
> context of the social, legal, and technological issues surrounding
> Internet content selection, filtering, labelling, signing, quality
> assurance etc. Other topics in scope for the Interest Group 
> include RDF
> query in the context of the Semantic Web roadmap, 
> intellectual property
> rights, P3P, and electronic commerce. Work items from other 
> fora may be
> brought to the attention of the RDF Interest Group for comment; in
> particular, the CC/PP vocabulary describing client capability and user
> preferences. 
> 
> An important function of the Interest Group is information sharing
> within and between application communities. Conference 
> announcements and
> post-conference reviews to the Interest Group mailing list help advise
> W3C staff where the W3C might most effectively allocate resources. 
> 
> 2.0 Deliverables
> 
> As an Interest Group, the RDF Interest Group serves to facilitate
> discussion that may produce W3C process deliverables. The RDF Interest
> Group does not develop specifications or code and as a body 
> it does not
> have a specific set of deliverables. The Interest Group may 
> be asked to
> review "last call" working drafts and Proposed Recommendations for
> architectural consistency with Semantic Web data models. The Interest
> Group may also make proposals for new Working Groups through the W3C
> staff contact when there is evidence of sufficient Member interest
> in a work item. Those proposals would then enter the W3C Process for
> Advisory Committee review. The Interest Group will function primarily
> through an open e-mail distribution list, <[log in to unmask]>,
> with a publicly accessible archive. 
> 
> 3.0 Membership
> 
> Any person interested in the application of or extensions to the
> Resource Description Framework is eligible to participate in this
> Interest Group; W3C Membership is not a prerequisite.
> 
> The initial Chair of the RDF Interest Group is Dan Brickley, U.K.
> Bristol. The Chair sits on the W3C Metadata Coordination 
> Group, which is
> chaired by Ralph Swick, W3C. 
> 
> 4.0 Meetings and conferences
> 
> The RDF Interest Group exists only as an email forum; it does not
> conduct phone conferences or face-to-face meetings. The Interest Group
> may sponsor "Birds-Of-a-Feather" sessions at conferences, at the
> discretion of the Chair and W3C staff contact.
> 
> 5.0 Communications and confidentiality
> 
> The RDF Interest Group is a public forum. The mailing list and archive
> are publicly accessible.
> 
> 6.0 Duration
> 
> The RDF Interest Group is part of the W3C Metadata Activity. The
> Metadata Activity is presently chartered through December, 1999. We
> expect to conduct a review of the effectiveness of the RDF Interest
> Group at that time and submit a plan for any followup 
> activity to the W3C
> Members. 
> 
> 
> Ralph R. Swick <[log in to unmask]> 
> Dan Brickley <[log in to unmask]> 
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