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.
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
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2007-09-11
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GRDDL is a mechanism for Gleaning Resource
Descriptions from Dialects of Languages. This
GRDDL specification introduces markup based on existing standards for
declaring that an XML document includes data compatible with the
Resource Description Framework (RDF) and for linking to algorithms
(typically represented in XSLT), for extracting this data from the
document.
The markup includes a namespace-qualified attribute for use
in general-purpose XML documents and a profile-qualified
link relationship for use in valid XHTML documents. The GRDDL
mechanism also allows an XML namespace document
(or XHTML profile document) to declare that every document associated
with that namespace (or profile) includes gleanable data and for
linking to an algorithm for gleaning the data.
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Group Notes
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2006-02-10
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The Resource Description Framework (RDF) is a model developed by the
W3C for representing information about resources in the World Wide Web.
Topic Maps is a standard for knowledge integration developed by the ISO.
This document contains a survey of existing proposals for integrating
RDF and Topic Maps data and is intended to be a starting point for
establishing standard guidelines for RDF/Topic Maps
interoperability.
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2005-09-29
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This is a sample short description for this specification;
over time we will replace this description with a real one.
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2000-09-29
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Both XLink [XLink] and RDF [RDF] provide a way of asserting relations between
resources. RDF is primarily for describing resources and their
relations, while XLink is primarily for specifying and traversing
hyperlinks. However, the overlap between the two is sufficient that
a mapping from XLink links to statements in an RDF model can be
defined. Such a mapping allows XLink elements to be harvested as a
source of RDF statements. XLink links (hereafter, "links") thus
provide an alternate syntax for RDF information that may be useful
in some situations.
This Note specifies such a mapping, so that links can be
harvested and RDF statements generated. The purpose of this
harvesting is to create RDF models that, in some sense, represent
the intent of the XML document. The purpose is
not to represent the XLink structure in enough detail that
a set of links could be round-tripped through an RDF model.
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1999-10-07
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This document is a report of the results of a meeting of a group
of W3C Members involved in XML
and RDF to advance the general
understanding of a unified approach to the expression of Web data
models. This document is one response to the Web data architecture
discussed in "Web
Architecture: Describing and Exchanging Data".
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1998-08-04
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This is a sample short description for this specification;
over time we will replace this description with a real one.
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Drafts
Below are draft documents:
Last Call Drafts, other Working Drafts.
Some of these may become Web Standards through the W3C Recommendation Track
process. Others may be published as Group Notes or
become obsolete specifications.
Last Call Drafts
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2011-09-20
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This document describes R2RML, a language for expressing customized
mappings from relational databases to RDF datasets.
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2011-09-20
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This document defines a direct mapping from relational data to RDF.
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2011-05-25
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This specification defines rules and guidelines for adapting the RDF in XHTML: Syntax and Processing (RDFa) specification for use in the HTML5 and XHTML5 members of the HTML family. The rules defined in this specification not only apply to HTML5 documents in non-XML and XML mode, but also to HTML4 and XHTML documents interpreted through the HTML5 parsing rules.
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Other Working Drafts
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2010-06-08
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These use-cases document the need to expose data from relational
databases (RDB) as RDF on the Web of data, and so deliver a set of
functional requirements for a standardized mapping language.
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