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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:#252525">Greetings,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:#252525">The&nbsp;<a href="https://www.w3.org/2013/dwbp/"><span style="color:#663366;text-decoration:none">Data on the Web Best Practices Working Group</span></a>&nbsp;are delighted to announce the
 publication of the&nbsp;<a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/dwbp/"><span style="color:#663366;text-decoration:none">Data on the Web Best Practices</span></a>&nbsp;document, the&nbsp;<a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/vocab-duv/"><span style="color:#663366;text-decoration:none">Dataset
 Usage Vocabulary</span></a>&nbsp;and the&nbsp;<a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/vocab-dqv/"><span style="color:#663366;text-decoration:none">Data Quality Vocabulary</span></a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:#252525">These deliverables are the outcome of two and a half years of collaborative effort from the Working Group. We believe the Best Practices document and vocabularies are complete, and
 would love to hear your final comments before they become a W3C Candidate Recommendation (BP doc) and Working Group Notes (vocabs). We are also eager to hear how you are implementing, or plan to implement, the Data on the Web Best Practices.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:#252525"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">&middot;<span style="font:7.0pt &quot;Times New Roman&quot;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:#252525">The&nbsp;<b>Data on the Web Best Practices</b>&nbsp;document offers advice on how data of all kinds &#8211; government, research, commercial &#8211; can be shared on the
 Web, whether openly or not. The underlying aim is to make data intelligently available, maximizing the likelihood of its discovery and reuse. The provision of a variety of metadata, the use of URIs as identifiers and multiple access options are key to this.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:#252525"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">&middot;<span style="font:7.0pt &quot;Times New Roman&quot;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:#252525">The&nbsp;<b>Dataset Usage Vocabulary</b>&nbsp;offers a framework in which citations, comments, and uses of data within applications can be structured. The aim
 is to benefit data publishers by enabling assessment of the impact of their efforts to share data, and to benefit data users by encouraging the continued availability of data and the visibility of their own work that uses it.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:#252525"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">&middot;<span style="font:7.0pt &quot;Times New Roman&quot;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:#252525">The&nbsp;<b>Data Quality Vocabulary</b>&nbsp;offers a framework in which the quality of a dataset can be described, whether by the dataset publisher or by a broader
 community of users. It does not provide a formal, complete definition of quality, rather, it sets out a consistent means by which information can be provided such that a potential user of a dataset can make his/her own judgment about its fitness for purpose.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:#252525">Please send any comments or examples of how you are using the Best Practices to&nbsp;<a href="mailto:public-dwbp-comments@w3.org"><span style="color:#663366;text-decoration:none">public-dwbp-comments@w3.org</span></a>&nbsp;(<a href="mailto:public-dwbp-comments-request@w3.org?subject=subscribe"><span style="color:#663366;text-decoration:none">subscribe</span></a><a href="http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-dwbp-comments/"><span style="color:#663366;text-decoration:none">archives</span></a>).
 All feedback is welcome and will be responded to.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:#252525">We look forward to hearing from you!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:#252525">The W3C Data on the Web Best Practices Working Group<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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