Hi. Sorry in advance for cross-posting / duplicate.
You may be interested in knowing that a draft of a vocabulary intended to be used for describing software developped in forges, or listed in catalogues has been published by a working group attached to the European Commission (ISA programme), for review by the public. I imagine it could well be used some day to publish metadata about Debian distributions and or software packaged in Debian on the Semantic Web (for instance to interlink records of an upstream software, some user reviews, its debian packages, and other distributions', etc.). I'm participating to the working group, not with any official Debian developer role there (and probably more with my FusionForge contributor hat on), but still, I'm trying to keep things reasonably compliant to what I imagine could benefit Debian in the end. Don't hesitate to provide your comments, so that we can improve the vocabulary, and match your organisation's needs in the future steps. More details at : https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/asset/adms_foss/news/vocabulary-software-metadata-released-public-review Best regards, ----------------------------------- Dear all, On May 2 2012, the public review period for the ADMS.F/OSS v0.3 [1] metadata vocabulary has started. ADMS.F/OSS is a metadata vocabulary to describe free and open-source software (F/OSS) assets, making it possible to more easily explore, find, and link software assets on the Web by interlinking software forges. The work has been initiated by the Interoperability Solutions for European Public Administrations (ISA) [2] Programme of the European Commission and was carried out from January till April 2012 by a multi disciplinary Working Group [3] of 45 people from 14 different countries. ADMS.F/OSS aims at maximally reusing existing specifications, such as DOAP [4], ADMS [5], and the Trove software map [6]. The process and methodology followed in the development of ADMS.F/OSS is set out in detail in the document ?Process and Methodology for Developing Core Vocabularies?. Further background is available in the studies "Vision for an enhanced software description metadata schema and software catalogue for e-Government? and ?Report on existing Software Forges? which offers an overview and context for the work. ADMS.F/OSS v0.3 is open for public comments until June 2 2012. During this period, members of the public are invited to download the specification and share their public review by posting comments to the forum. How can you help? We kindly invite you to contribute to this specification by submitting your comments on the ADMS.F/OSS Specification v0.3: 1. Download the ADMS.F/OSS v0.3 [1] specification; and 2. Comment* the ADMS.F/OSS v0.3 Specification by using the ADMS.F/OSS public review forum topic [8] (registration on Joinup [9] required). What happens with your feedback? All comments and feedback received will be registered as issues and discussed with the Working Group in June. Resolutions of those issues will be shared on Joinup, and will lead to a final version of the specification that will be submitted for endorsement by the EU Member States. [1] https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/asset/adms_foss/release/03 [2] http://ec.europa.eu/isa/ [3] https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/asset/adms_foss/wiki/admsf/oss-working-group [4] http://github.com/edumbill/doap [5] https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/asset/adms/description [6] http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/sourceforge/wiki/Software%20Map%20and%20Trove [8] https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/asset/adms_foss/topic/public-comments-admsf/oss-v03 [9] https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/user/register -- Olivier BERGER http://www-public.it-sudparis.eu/~berger_o/ - OpenPGP-Id: 2048R/5819D7E8 Ingenieur Recherche - Dept INF Institut Mines-Telecom, Telecom SudParis, Evry (France) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-project-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/871umqykeu....@inf-8657.int-evry.fr
