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POWDER Current Status

This page summarizes the relationships among specifications, whether they are finished standards or drafts. Below, each title links to the most recent version of a document. For related introductory information, see: Linked Data, Privacy.

Completed Work

W3C Recommendations have been reviewed by W3C Members, by software developers, and by other W3C groups and interested parties, and are endorsed by the Director as Web Standards. Learn more about the W3C Recommendation Track.

Group Notes are not standards and do not have the same level of W3C endorsement.

Standards

2009-09-01

Protocol for Web Description Resources (POWDER): Description Resources

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This document sets out the structure of Description Resources, defines how a POWDER Processor should return RDF triples describing a given IRI, how to link to POWDER documents, and notes on how to build trust into POWDER-based systems. It defines the describedby @rel type and the POWDER Internet Media types.
2009-09-01

Protocol for Web Description Resources (POWDER): Formal Semantics

translations · errata

This document defines the formal semantics of POWDER, including the semantic extension that allows a resource to be interpreted as an instance of an OWL class based on its IRI, and the transformation steps from POWDER, through POWDER-BASE to POWDER-S.
2009-09-01

Protocol for Web Description Resources (POWDER): Grouping of Resources

translations · errata

This document sets out the highly flexible and extensible method used by POWDER for defining groups of resources in terms of their IRIs and IRI components.

Group Notes

2009-09-10

Protocol for Web Description Resources (POWDER): Test Suite

An extensive set of examples that can be used to test POWDER applications.
2009-09-01

Protocol for Web Description Resources (POWDER): Primer

A general introduction to POWDER, its uses and methodology, that assumes little prior knowledge.
2007-10-31

POWDER: Use Cases and Requirements

The use cases and requirements that underpinned the development of POWDER.

Obsolete Specifications

These specifications have either been superseded by others, or have been abandoned. They remain available for archival purposes, but are not intended to be used.

Retired

2007-09-25

Protocol for Web Description Resources (POWDER): Web Description Resources (WDR) Vocabulary

This is the namespace document for the POWDER vocabulary. It provides a formal definition for each class and property, acting as a companion document to POWDER's Description Resources and Grouping of Resources Recommendations.
2007-09-25

Protocol for Web Description Resources (POWDER): Web Description Resources Datatypes (WDRD)

This is the namespace document for the XML schema used in the Protocol for Web Description resources (POWDER). It defines the datatypes used and the structure for Description Resources where these are serialized in XML.