Ron Daniel Jr. Elias Torres Experiences with the conversion of SenseLab databases to RDF/OWL Jon Phipp OWL 2 Web Ontology Language Manchester Syntax Semantic Web Interest Group Semantic Web Interest Group The Semantic Web Interest Group is a forum for W3C Members and non-Members to discuss innovative applications of the Semantic Web. The Interest Group also initiates discussion on potential future work items related to enabling technologies that support the Semantic Web, and the relationship of that work to other activities of W3C and to the broader social and legal context in which the Web is situated. Alexandre Passant Kenneth J. Laskey Library Linked Data Incubator Group: Use Cases 2011-10-25 Ian Horrock Harold Boley Peter F. Patel-Schneider Harold Boley Paolo Ciccarese Alan Rector Marcia Zeng Simon Miles Richard Cyganiak Jun Zhao Ashok Malhotra Antoine Isaac Bijan Parsia Achille Fokoue Trevor Martin Jon Phipps Daniel Oberle A Standards-based, Open and Privacy-aware Social Web 2010-12-06 Mischa Tuffield Natasha Noy Thomas Baker Kei-Hoi Cheung SPARQL Working Group SPARQL Working Group Formerly known as RDF Data Access Working Group, it developed the SPARQL Query Language recommendation published in January 2008. The group is currently chartered to make small updates to the SPARQL specification that have been identified as users and implementers as feasible and useful extensions. Daniel Appelquist OWL 2 Web Ontology Language Structural Specification and Functional-Style Syntax 2009-10-27 Web Ontology Working Group Web Ontology Working Group The Web Ontology Working Group was chartered to build upon the RDF Core work a language for defining structured web based ontologies which will provide richer integration and interoperability of data among descriptive communities. OWL 2 Web Ontology Language XML Serialization 2009-10-27 Mieczyslaw M. Kokar Ed Summers W3C Geospatial Vocabulary 2007-10-23 XML Schema Datatypes in RDF and OWL 2006-03-14 Sean Bechhofer Harvesting RDF Statements from XLinks 2000-09-29 Jeff Young Michael Kifer RDFa in XHTML: Syntax and Processing 2007-10-08 Semantic Web Applications in Neuromedicine (SWAN) Ontology 2008-06-04 Dan Connolly OWL 2 Web Ontology Language Profiles 2009-10-27 Henson Graves Ben Adida Alistair Miles Frank Manola A Prototype Knowledge Base for the Life Sciences 2008-06-04 Chris Goad Dan Brickley Kei-Hoi Cheung Boris Motik Mark Birbeck Kendall Grant Clark R.V.Guha Dave Beckett Axel Polleres Kevin Smith Jeff Young William Waites Elisa F. Kendall Protocol for Web Description Resources (POWDER): Test Suite 2009-06-04 Michel Böhms Bernardo Cuenca Grau Natasha Noy Peter F. Patel-Schneider Gleaning Resource Descriptions from Dialects of Languages (GRDDL) 2007-09-11 Axel Polleres SPARQL Query Results XML Format 2008-01-15 Henry S. Thompson Zhe Wu Jodi Schneider Lee Feigenbaum SPARQL Query Language for RDF 2008-01-15 Michael Kifer Matthias Samwald Laurent Lefort OWL 2 Web Ontology Language Conformance 2009-10-27 Mark Birbeck GRDDL Primer 2007-06-28 SKOS Simple Knowledge Organization System Primer 2009-08-18 Jos de Bruijn Raphaël Troncy Jonathan Rees Graham Klyne Dave Beckett Phil Archer Alexandre Passant Boris Motik Karen Coyle Adrian Paschke RDFa Primer 2008-10-14 Thomas Lukasiewicz Best Practice Recipes for Publishing RDF Vocabularies 2008-08-28 Gary Hallmark Protocol for Web Description Resources (POWDER): Grouping of Resources 2003-06-11 Michael Smith Birte Glimm Semantic Web Deployment Working Group Semantic Web Deployment Working Group The mission of this Working Group is to provide guidance in the form of W3C Technical Reports on issues of practical RDF development and deployment practices in the areas of publishing vocabularies, OWL usage, and integrating RDF with HTML documents. Giorgos Stamou Jacco van Ossenbruggen Elias Torres Raj Singh Semantic Web Health Care and Life Sciences Interest Group Semantic Web Health Care and Life Sciences Interest Group The Semantic Web Health Care and Life Sciences Interest Group is designed to improve collaboration, research and development, and innovation adoption in the health care and life science industries. Aiding decision-making in clinical research, Semantic Web technologies will bridge many forms of biological and medical information across institutions. RDB2RDF Working Group RDB2RDF Working Group The mission of the RDB2RDF Working Group is to standardize a language for mapping relational data and relational database schemas into RDF and OWL, tentatively called the RDB2RDF Mapping Language, R2RML. Emmanuelle Bermès RIF Basic Logic Dialect 2010-06-22 Steve Pepper Phil Archer Dave Reynolds Michael Schneider Olaf Hartig GRDDL Use Cases: Scenarios of extracting RDF data from XML documents 2007-04-06 Serializing SPARQL Query Results in JSON 2007-06-18 Sandro Hawke An RDF Schema for P3P 2002-01-25 Describing Linked Datasets with the VoID Vocabulary 2011-03-03 Sandro Hawke Boris Motik Patrick Hayes Michael Kifer Keith Alexander Cool URIs for the Semantic Web 2008-03-31 Representing Specified Values in OWL: "value partitions" and "value sets" 2005-05-17 rdf:PlainLiteral: A Datatype for RDF Plain Literals 2009-10-27 SWAN/SIOC: Alignment Between the SWAN and SIOC Ontologies 2008-06-04 A Semantic Web Primer for Object-Oriented Software Developers 2006-03-09 Peter F. Patel-Schneider Jeremy J. Carroll RDF Core Working Group RDF Core Working Group The RDF Core Working Group was chartered to consider update to the RDF Model and Syntax Recommendation, and to a few revisions to the RDF Schema specification. Image Annotation on the Semantic Web 2007-08-14 Michael Hausenblas Stasinos Konstantopoulos Alan Rector Sandro Hawke Kai Scheppe Peter F. Patel-Schneider OWL 2 Web Ontology Language Data Range Extension: Linear Equations Kendall Clark Michael Kifer Melvin Carvahlo invalid @rel/@rev value: 'shortcut' Henry Story Phil Tetlow Christine Perey Lee Feigenbaum Peter Murray RDF Vocabulary Description Language 1.0: RDF Schema 2004-02-10 Valentina Presutti Ralph R. Swick Dan Brickley OWL 2 Web Ontology Language Direct Semantics 2009-10-27 Kerry Taylor OWL 2 RL in RIF 2010-06-22 Alexandre Passant Rigo Wenning RDF/XML Syntax Specification (Revised) 2004-02-10 Eric Prud'hommeaux invalid @rel/@rev value: 'shortcut' Carsten Lutz Eric Miller Semantic Web Best Practices and Deployment Working Group Semantic Web Best Practices and Deployment Working Group The focus of the Semantic Web Best Practices and Deployment Working Group was to provide hands-on support for developers of Semantic Web applications. Daniel Vila Suero Alan Ruttenberg GRDDL Working Group GRDDL Working Group The mission of this Working Group was to complement the concrete RDF/XML syntax with a mechanism to relate other XML syntaxes (especially XHTML dialects or "microformats") to the RDF abstract syntax via transformations identified by URIs. Peter F. Patel-Schneider An RDF Schema for the XML Information Set 2001-04-06 Jeen Broekstra Peter F. Patel-Schneider OWL 2 Web Ontology Language RDF-Based Semantics 2009-10-27 Dave Reynolds Harry Halpin Daniel Rubin Publications of the W3C Semantic Web Activity W3C Semantic Web Activity 2011-11-07 The Semantic Webprovides a common framework that allows data to be shared and reused across application, enterprise, and community boundaries. It is a collaborative effort led by W3C with participation from a large number of researchers and industrial partners. It is based on the Resource Description Framework ( RDF). See also the separate FAQ for further information. Peter F. Patel-Schneider Jeff Z. Pan Harold Boley RIF Core Dialect 2010-06-22 Phil Archer Matthias Samwald Protocol for Web Description Resources (POWDER): Primer 2009-06-04 Cory Henson W3C Semantic Web Activity LBase: Semantics for Languages of the Semantic Web 2003-10-10 SKOS Use Cases and Requirements 2009-08-18 Susie Stephens Marcia Zeng OWL 2 Web Ontology Language Quick Reference Guide 2009-10-27 Lars Marius Garshol Holger Knublauch Ian Horrock RIF Framework for Logic Dialects 2010-06-22 RDB2RDF 2009-01-26 Ed Summers RDF Web Applications Working Group RDF Web Applications Working Group The mission of the RDF Web Applications Working Group, formerly known as the W3C RDFa Working Group, is to support the developing use of RDFa for embedding structured data in Web documents in general. The Working Group will publish W3C Recommendations to extend and enhance the currently published RDFa 1.0 documents, including an API. The Working Group will also support the HTML Working Group in its work on incorporating RDFa in HTML5 and XHTML5. Steven Pemberton Diego Berrueta Andrea Perego Bijan Parsia Bernardo Cuenca Grau Richard Cyganiak Ramanathan V. Guha RDF Working Group RDF Working Group The mission of the RDF Working Group, is to update the 2004 version of the Resource Description Framework (RDF) Recommendation. The scope of work is to extend RDF to include some of the features that the community has identified as both desirable and important for interoperability based on experience with the 2004 version of the standard, but without having a negative effect on existing deployment efforts. GRDDL Test Cases 2007-09-11 Matthew Horridge OWL Working Group OWL Working Group The mission of the OWL Working Group, is to produce a W3C Recommendation that refines and extends the 2004 version of OWL. The proposed extensions are a small set that: have been identified by users as widely needed, and have been identified by tool implementers as reasonable and feasible extensions to current tools. Jeremy J. Carroll The Cambridge Communiqué 1999-10-07 Sebastian Rudolph Publications of the W3C Semantic Web Activity Markus Krötzsch Antonis Kukurikos Lorrie Cranor RDF Primer 2004-02-10 Shane McCarron Antoine Isaac Fabio Vitali NameDeborah L. McGuinness RDF Test Cases 2004-02-10 RIF Production Rule Dialect 2010-06-22 Antoine Isaac Ben Adida Fabien Gandon Jie Bao Kevin Smith James Cheney Michael Kifer Semantic Web Coordination Group Semantic Web Coordination Group The Semantic Web Coordination Group is tasked to provide a forum for managing the interrelationships and interdependencies among groups focusing on standards and technologies that relate to this goals of the Semantic Web Activity. This group is designed to coordinate, facilitate and (where possible) help shape the efforts of other related groups to avoid duplication of effort and fragmentation of the Semantic Web by way of incompatible standards and technologies. Axel Polleres Uncertainty Reasoning for the World Wide Web 2008-03-31 SPARQL Protocol for RDF 2008-01-15 Walter W. Chang, Peter F. Patel-Schneider Patrick Hayes Antoine Isaac Renato Iannella Uli Sattler A Provenance XG Final Report Semantic Sensor Network XG Final Report 2010-12-06 2011-06-28 Library Linked Data Incubator Group Final Report Library Linked Data Incubator Group: Datasets, Value Vocabularies, and Metadata Element Sets 2011-10-25 A Discussion of the Relationship Between RDF-Schema and UML 1998-08-04 Kendall Grant Clark Axel Polleres Jeff Z. Pan Ian Davis Joshua Lieberman Nicola Gessa Bijan Parsia Christian de Sainte Marie Boris Motik Michael Panzer A Survey of RDF/Topic Maps Interoperability Proposals 2006-03-09 Evan Wallace Paulo C. G. Costa Resource Description Framework (RDF): Concepts and Abstract Syntax 2004-02-10 Harry Halpin Phil Archer RDF Semantics 2004-02-10 Bijan Parsia David Leal OWL 2 Web Ontology Language Primer 2009-10-27 William Waites Boris Motik Andy Seaborne RIF Datatypes and Built-Ins 1.0 2010-06-22 RIF RDF and OWL Compatibility 2010-06-22 Gary Hallmark OWL 2 Web Ontology Language Mapping to RDF Graphs 2009-10-27 Richard Tobin Dave Beckett W3C Semantic Web Activity POWDER Working Group POWDER Working Group The mission of the Protocol for Web Description Resources (POWDER) Working Group is to develop a mechanism through which structured metadata ("Description Resources") can be authenticated and applied to groups of Web resources. This mechanism will allow retrieval of the description resources without retrieval of the resources they describe. Phil Archer Paulo Pinheiro da Silva Luc Moreau Jie Bao POWDER: Use Cases and Requirements 2007-10-31 Brian McBride Adrian Paschke Kathryn B. Laskey Gordon Dunsire SKOS Simple Knowledge Organization System Reference 2009-08-18 RIF in RDF 2011-05-12 SIOC, SIOC Types and Health Care and Life Sciences 2008-06-04 Andrea Perego Eric Prud'hommeaux Chimezie Ogbuji Semantic Web Education and Outreach Interest Group Semantic Web Education and Outreach Interest Group The Semantic Web Education and Outreach Interest Group (SWEO) was chartered to collect proof-of-concept business cases, demonstration prototypes, etc, based on successful implementations of Semantic Web technologies, collect user experiences, develop and facilitate community outreach strategies, training and educational resources. Yolanda Gil Pascal Hitzler Paolo Ciccarese Paul Groth Protocol for Web Description Resources (POWDER): Description Resources 2003-06-11 Rules Interchange Format Working Group Rules Interchange Format Working Group This Working Group is chartered to produce a core rule language plus extensions which together allow rules to be translated between rule languages and thus transferred between rule systems. The Working Group will have to balance the needs of a community diverse including Business Rules and Semantic users Web specifying extensions for which it can articulate a consensus design and which are sufficiently motivated by use cases. Markus Krötzsch mailto:ivan@w3.org Ivan Herman 2009-10-27 OWL 2 Web Ontology Language Document Overview Harold Boley Harold Boley RIF Overview 2010-06-22 Product Modelling using Semantic Web Technologies 2008-03-31 Representing Classes As Property Values on the Semantic Web 2005-04-05 Leo Sauermann Ross Singer Defining N-ary Relations on the Semantic Web 2006-04-12 Boris Motik Provenance Working Group Provenance Working Group The mission of the Provenance Working Group is to support the widespread publication and use of provenance information of Web documents, data, and resources. The Working Group will publish W3C Recommendations that define a language for exchanging provenance information among applications. Protocol for Web Description Resources (POWDER): Formal Semantics 2003-06-11 Jan Grant