Re: Collection of questions

On Fri, 03 Jul 2009 01:22:56 +0200, Stephen Crawley <uqscrawl <at> uq.edu.au>  
wrote:

> So I think the most practical solution would be to set up an informal  
> working group (independent of W3C) to come up with consensus answers and  
> document them.  A Wiki-based group sounds a reasonable approach.  (We  
> might be able to host an Annotea Wiki on "http://metadata.net" ... I  
> need to check out some issues.)

An alternative would be to set up a W3C Incubator group. This is actually  
pretty simple, although you need 3 W3C members to support it (Opera could  
be one).

> It remains to be seen if there are enough interested people with the  
> skills and dedication to come up with a decent Annotea specification.   
> In my experience (MOF, XMI), writing a decent specification / standard  
> is hard work, and requires real dedication, discipline and willingness  
> to compromise.  So lets not get too ambitious just yet.

Yes, it is quite hard. But taking the original work and producing a  
cleaned-up version of the spec is probably feasible, and maybe even  
interesting.

cheers

Chaals

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