Updated Purpose of document section and removed obsolete comments.
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// editors, add as many as you like
// only "name" is required
editors: [
- { name: "Bernadette Hyland", company: "3 Round Stones.", companyURL: "http://3roundstones.com/" },
+ { name: "Bernadette Hyland", company: "3 Round Stones", companyURL: "http://3roundstones.com/" },
{name: "Ghislain Auguste Atemezing", company: "Eurecom", companyURL: "http://www.eurecom.fr"},
{name: "Boris Villazon-terrazas", company: "iSOCO", companyURL: "http://www.isoco.com"}
],
@@ -172,16 +172,7 @@
</head>
<body>
-<!--ACTION TO Bernadette :Indicate in the bp abstract that the document is unfinished and is subject to change -->
-<!-- Comments of Dave to have only one abstract
-<section id="abstract">
-<p>
-This document provides best practices for creating, publishing and announcing open government content as Linked Data. Guidance on the life cycle of a Linked Data project, beginning with identification of suitable data sets, vocabulary selection, URI naming conventions for publication of data sets is included. The goal of this document is to aid the publication of high quality Linked Open Data (LOD) from government authorities. This document aims to compile the most relevant data management practices, promoting best practices for publishing Linked Open Data and warns against practices that are considered harmful.
-</p>
-</section>
- -->
-
-<!--todo: add here that any further WG could take the doc and reuse it -->
+<!--Any further W3C Working Group may update this document. -->
<section id="sotd">
<p>This document is unfinished and it is subject to change. </p>
</section>
@@ -196,14 +187,7 @@
<section id="abstract">
<!--<h2>Purpose of the Document</h2> -->
<p>
-This document sets out a series of best practices designed to facilitate
-development and delivery of open government data as Linked Data. The
-goal is to aid the publication of high quality <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/ld-glossary/#linked-open-data">Linked Open Data (LOD)</a>
-from government authorities, to compile the most relevant data management practices,
-to promote best practices for publishing Linked Open Data, and to warn against practices
-that are considered harmful. The following recommendations are offered to
-creators, maintainers and operators of Web sites publishing open government
-data.<del>This document is unfinished and it is subject to change.</del>
+This document sets out a series of best practices designed to facilitate development and delivery of open government data as Linked Data. Linked Data principles are used to publish high quality, heterogeneous datasets in a distributed manner. The goal of this document is to aid the publication of high quality <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/ld-glossary/#linked-open-data">Linked Open Data (LOD)</a> from government authorities, to compile the most relevant data management practices, to promote best practices for publishing Linked Open Data, and to warn against practices that are considered harmful. The following recommendations are offered to creators, maintainers and operators of Web sites publishing open government data.
</p>
<h2>Audience</h2>