Include appropriate recogition to authors of datatyping draft
I would like to ask the WG to join me in expressing our thanks for the monumental efforts that Pat Hayes, Sergey Melnick and Patrick Stickler have put into the work on datatypes for RDF. The work on datatypes began nearly a year ago. I don't have the tools to determine how many email messages or how many document drafts there have been on the subject, but the answer is "a lot". Hmmm, that looks like a lexical form of ... oh never mind that for now. Many others have also contributed to the solution of this problem, but I felt that we should specifically acknowledge the contributions of the editors of the WD that is now, not to be. What matters, is that they have led us to, what I believe, is an excellent solution and have accepted with exceptional grace that that solution is not best described in a separate document. I have an action from the last telecon to ensure that these gentlemen receive appropriate acknowledgement for their efforts. After consulting with Eric, I understand that the mechanism for acknowledging specific contributions to a specification, is to include an appropriate paragraph in the acknowledgements section of affected documents. I suggest a paragraph similar to the following (better words welcome) be included in the primer, syntax, concepts, schema and model theory documents. [[ The method described in the RDF family of specifications for representing datatype values such integers and dates, was developed under the leadership of Pat Hayes, Sergey Melnik and Patrick Stickler. ]]
See: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-rdfcore-wg/2002Sep/0120.html
Brian's proposal to RDFcore to recogniz ethe datatype document authors.
[GK] Working group accepted proposal.
See: http://...
Added the following to acknowledgements section:
This document contains a significant contribution from Pat Hayes, Sergey Melnik and Patrick Stickler, under whose leadership was developed the framework described in the RDF family of specifications for representing datatyped values, such integers and dates.
See: http://www.ninebynine.org/wip/RDF-concepts/2002-10-18/rdf-concepts.html
Material incorporated into to publicly accessible document.