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<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
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<title>W3C Semantic Web: Resource Description Framework (RDF) Interest
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Group</title>
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<body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000">
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<p><a href="/"><img border="0" src="/Icons/WWW/w3c_home" alt="W3C" /></a><a
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href="/TandS/"><img src="/Icons/tands.gif"
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alt="Technology and Society Domain" width="212" height="48" border="0"
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/></a></p>
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<p align="center"><a href="/RDF/">RDF</a> | <a
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href="http://www.w3.org/RDF/IGcharter">Interest Group Charter</a> | <a
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href="http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-rdf-interest/">RDF IG Mail
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Archives</a> | <a
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href="http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-rdf-logic/">RDF-Logic</a> | <a
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href="#irc">IRC chat</a></p>
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<h1>RDF Interest Group 1999-2004</h1>
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<p><strong>News!:</strong></p>
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<ul>
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<li>The RDF IG has been relaunched as a <a
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href="/2001/sw/interest/">Semantic Web Interest Group</a> (SWIG)</li>
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<li><a href="#meetings">RDF IG meeting</a>, 26-27 Feb 2001, Cambridge MA,
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USA</li>
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</ul>
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<p>This was the home page for the RDF Interest Group from 1999-2004. The
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group was established in August 1999 as an open forum for W3C Members and
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non-Members to discuss issues relating to W3C's Resource Description
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Framework. It was preceded by the PICS Interest Group, and is succeeded by
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the <a href="/2001/sw/interest/">Semantic Web Interest Group</a>.</p>
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<p>The remainder of this page may be somewhat dated, but is left here for
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historical interest.</p>
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<hr />
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<p>Contents: <a href="#scope">scope</a> | <a href="#docs">documents</a> | <a
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href="#discussion">mailing lists</a> and <a href="#irc">IRC chat</a> tools</p>
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<p>Nearby: <a href="/2001/sw/">Semantic Web Activity</a> | <a
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href="/RDF/">RDF home</a> | <a href="/PICS/">PICS</a>| <a
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href="/2000/01/sw/">Semantic Web Development</a> | <a
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href="/Collaboration/">Collaboration and Annotation</a></p>
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<a id="scope" name="scope"></a>
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<h3>Issues and Scope</h3>
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<p>The RDF Interest Group provides a forum for discussion of a wide range of
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RDF-related activities and issues. From the <a
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href="http://www.w3.org/RDF/IGcharter">charter</a>:</p>
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<blockquote>
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...the Interest Group will explore the application of W3C metadata
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technology in the context of the social, legal, and technological issues
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surrounding Internet content selection, filtering, labelling, signing,
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quality assurance etc. Other topics in scope for the Interest Group include
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RDF query in the context of the <a href="/DesignIssues/Semantic">Semantic
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Web roadmap</a>, intellectual property rights, <a href="/P3P">P3P</a>, and
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<a href="/ECommerce">electronic commerce</a>.</blockquote>
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<a name="meetings" id="meetings"></a>
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<h3>Meetings</h3>
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<p>The RDF Interest Group met 26-27 February 2001 as part of the <a
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href="http://www.w3.org/2001/02/allgroupoverview.html">Technical Plenary and
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WG Meeting Event</a> (Royal Sonesta Hotel, Cambridge, Massachusetts USA). IG
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members may also attend the all-groups plenary on Wednesday 28th February.
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(<a
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href="http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-rdf-interest/2001Jan/0107.html">announcement</a>).</p>
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<p>The <a href="http://www.w3.org/2001/02/rdfig-f2f/">RDF IG meeting page</a>
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contains further details, and will link to minutes etc as they become
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available. <em>A meeting report is (over)due from the <a
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href="mailto:danbri@w3.org">chair</a>; expected by early April.</em></p>
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<a id="docs" name="docs"></a>
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<h3>Documents</h3>
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<p>The <a href="/RDF/">RDF home page</a> tracks most RDF developments. Here
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we list a few documents and proposals circulated in particular to the RDF IG
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community.</p>
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<p>While the RDF Interest Group is free to explore any topics and concerns,
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the conclusions of the <a href="/TR/1999/NOTE-schema-arch-19991007">Cambridge
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Communiqué</a> may help guide discussion:</p>
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<blockquote>
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<ul>
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<li>8. A new simplified XML transfer syntax for RDF and an API for
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accessing RDF data models should be produced. The RDF 1.0 transfer
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syntax remains a W3C Recommendation and applications are free to
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continue to use it.</li>
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</ul>
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</blockquote>
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<h4>Spec-related</h4>
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<ul>
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<li><a href="http://www.w3.org/2000/03/rdf-tracking/">RDF Interest Group -
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Issue Tracking</a> (<a
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href="http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-rdf-interest/2000Sep/0025.html">announcement</a>)</li>
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<li><a href="http://www.w3.org/2000/09/rdfmodel/">discussion strawman: RDF
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Data Model Summary</a> (excerpted from <a
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href="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-rdf-syntax/">M+S REC</a>, see <a
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href="http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-rdf-interest/2000Sep/0072.html">announcment</a>).</li>
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<li><a href="/2000/10/rdf-tests/">RDF test files</a></li>
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<li>RDF and XLink:
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<ul>
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<li><a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xlink2rdf/">Harvesting RDF Statements
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from XLinks</a> W3C Note 29 September 2000, Ron Daniel Jr. (<a
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href="http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-rdf-interest/2000Jun/0071.html">announcement</a>)</li>
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<li><a href="http://slow1.w3.org/2000/02/rdf-xlink/">(rough) Notes on
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RDF, Xlink as linked information systems</a>, Dan Brickley</li>
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<li>see also <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xlink-naming/">XLink Markup
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Name Control</a>, W3C Note 24 October 2000, which describes the use
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of XML Schema for representing linking constructs in XML markup</li>
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</ul>
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</li>
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</ul>
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<h4>RDF APIs</h4>
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<p>There has been a lot of discussion and implementation around the topic of
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RDF APIs. Some key references are...</p>
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<ul>
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<li>RADIX, <a
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href="http://www.mailbase.ac.uk/lists/rdf-dev/1999-06/0002.html">A
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proposal for an RDF API</a>, Ron Daniel (June 1999)</li>
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<li><a
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href="http://www.mailbase.ac.uk/lists/rdf-dev/1999-11/0002.html">RADIX
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RDF API revisited</a> (Nov 1999 overview)</li>
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<li>An <a href="http://www-db.stanford.edu/~melnik/rdf/api.html">RDF API
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Draft</a> from Sergey Melnik, Stanford databases group, submitted for
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discussion and collective development to www-rdf-interest</li>
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<li><a href="http://www.mozilla.org/rdf/doc/">Mozilla RDF</a>: <a
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href="http://www.mozilla.org/rdf/back-end-architecture.html">architecture
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and API design</a>, <a
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href="http://www.mozilla.org/rdf/doc/faq.html">FAQ</a>, <a
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href="http://www.mozilla.org/rdf/doc/api.html">overview</a> and <a
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href="http://lxr.mozilla.org/mozilla/source/rdf/base/idl/">XPCOM-IDL
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interfaces</a>.</li>
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<li><a href="http://nestroy.wi-inf.uni-essen.de/rdf/sum_rdf_api/">Summary
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of RDF API discussions</a>, Peter Hannappel</li>
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<li><a href="http://www.w3.org/RDF/#link-jena">Jena</a>, a Java API for
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RDF</li>
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<li><a href="http://www.w3.org/RDF/#link-redland">Redland</a>, includes a
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proposal for a C API</li>
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</ul>
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<h4>RDF Model</h4>
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<ul>
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<li><a
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href="http://nestroy.wi-inf.uni-essen.de/rdf/logical_interpretation/index.html">A
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Logical Interpretation of RDF</a>, Wolfram Conen and Reinhold Klapsing.
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<a
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href="http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-rdf-interest/2000Aug/0122.html">posted
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Sat, Aug 26 2000</a></li>
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<li><a
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href="http://public.research.mimesweeper.com/RDF/RDFContexts.html">Contexts
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for RDF Information Modeling</a>, Graham Klyne. <a
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href="http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-rdf-interest/2000Sep/0028.html">posted
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Tue, Sep 05 2000</a>.</li>
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<li>see also: <a href="/DesignIssues/">Design Issues</a> and the various
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issue summaries linked from the <a
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href="http://www.w3.org/2000/03/rdf-tracking/">RDF Issue Tracking</a>
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page</li>
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</ul>
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<h4>RDF Syntax</h4>
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<ul>
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<li><a href="/DesignIssues/Syntax.html">A strawman Unstriped syntax for RDF
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in XML</a>, Tim Berners-Lee</li>
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<li><a href="http://www-db.stanford.edu/~melnik/rdf/syntax.html">Simplified
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Syntax for RDF</a>, Sergey Melnik.</li>
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<li><a href="/2000/09/XGraph">Research notebook on edge-labelled graphs in
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XML</a>, Dan Brickley (<a
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href="http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-rdf-interest/2000Sep/0039.html">posted
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Wed, Sep 06 2000</a> )</li>
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<li><a
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href="http://www.openhealth.org/RDF/rdf_Syntax_and_Names.htm">Serializing
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RDF and edge labelled graphs in XML</a>, Jonathan Borden (<a
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href="http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-rdf-interest/2000Sep/0075.html">posted
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Fri, Sep 08 2000</a> )</li>
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</ul>
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<h4>Services and Query languages</h4>
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<p><a href="http://www.w3.org/TandS/QL/QL98/pp.html">QL'98 position
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papers</a> on RDF query:</p>
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<ul>
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<li><a href="http://www.w3.org/TandS/QL/QL98/pp/rdfquery.html">RDF Query
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Specification</a>, Ashok Malhotra, Neel Sundaresan (IBM)</li>
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<li><a href="http://www.w3.org/TandS/QL/QL98/pp/enabling.html">Enabling
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Inferencing</a>, R.V. Guha (Netscape), Ora Lassila (Nokia), Eric Miller
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(OCLC), Dan Brickley (Bristol).</li>
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<li><a href="http://www.w3.org/TandS/QL/QL98/pp/metalog.html">Query +
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Metadata + Logic = Metalog</a>, Massimo Marchiori, Janne Saarela (W3C).
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See also <a href="/RDF/Metalog/">metalog implementation</a></li>
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</ul>
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<p>Migrating <a href="/PICS/">PICS</a> label bureau to RDF:</p>
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<ul>
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<li><a href="http://www.w3.org/1999/11/02-RDFServices/">RDF Description
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Services</a> (23rd Nov 1999)</li>
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</ul>
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<a id="discussion" name="discussion"></a>
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<h3>RDF IG mailing list(s)</h3>
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<p>The RDF community is encouraged to adopt the interest group's mailing
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list, <a
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href="http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-rdf-interest/">www-rdf-interest@w3.org</a>
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as the primary mailing list for discussion of RDF-related matters. See the <a
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href="http://www.w3.org/RDF/IGcharter">Interest Group charter</a> for more
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details of the role and scope of the interest group. Public <a
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href="http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-rdf-interest/">archives</a> of
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the <code>www-rdf-interest</code> list are available.</p>
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<p>To <strong>subscribe</strong>to the mailing list, send a message:</p>
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<pre><code>To: www-rdf-interest-request@w3.org
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Subject: subscribe</code></pre>
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<p>(to <strong>unsubscribe</strong>, send a msg with <code>subject:
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unsubscribe</code> to the same address)</p>
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<p><em>Note: do not use your mail tool's 'reply' function to attempt to
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construct one of these -request messages. The subject line must not include
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"Re:" nor should the body include extraneous mail addresses. If you try to
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get fancy you will only cause the list robot's heuristics to break and the
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message will be bounced to a human who may or may not ever get around to
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reading it.</em></p>
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<p>To send to the list, use the address <a
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href="mailto:www-rdf-interest@w3.org">www-rdf-interest@w3.org</a>.</p>
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<p>The more specialised <a
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href="http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-rdf-logic/">RDF-Logic</a> list
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can be accessed in the same fashion (<a
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href="http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-rdf-logic/2000Sep/0000.html">announcement</a>).
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Similarly, the <a
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href="http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-rdf-calendar/">www-rdf-calendar</a>
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list is available for Semantic Web developers working on calendaring and
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scheduling tools based on XML/RDF (<a
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href="http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-rdf-calendar/2001Apr/0001.html">announce</a>)</p>
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<p>The archives of the RDF IG can be searched using this Web form...</p>
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<form method="get" action="http://search.w3.org/Public/cgi-bin/query">
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<input type="hidden" name="mss" value="simple" /><input type="hidden"
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name="pg" value="q" /><input type="hidden" name="what" value="web" /><input
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type="hidden" name="fmt" value="." />Search
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<select name="filter">
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<option value="all" selected="selected">W3C site and public mailing lists
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archives</option>
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<option value="w3c">W3C site only</option>
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<option value="lists">W3C public mailing lists archives only</option>
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</select>
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<br />
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<input type="text" size="30" name="q" maxlength="800"
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value="+www-rdf-interest " />
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<input type="submit" value="Submit" alt="search" name="search" /></form>
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<h3>Other lists</h3>
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<p>There are a lot of mailing lists hosted by W3C. <a
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href="http://www.w3.org/Mail/">Further information</a> is available on
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these.</p>
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<p>The (defunct) RDF-DEV list has its own <a
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href="http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/discovery/rdf-dev/">home page</a> and <a
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href="http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/discovery/rdf-dev/roads/">resources
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guide</a>. Since 1999-10-22, new members of RDF-DEV are being redirected to
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the RDF Interest Group mailing list by the <a
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href="mailto:daniel.brickley@bristol.ac.uk">listowner</a>, to encourage
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convegence between the RDF-DEV and RDF IG communities.</p>
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<p>There has been a fair amount of discussion on the <a
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href="http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-rdf-comments/">www-rdf-comments</a>
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list, whose main purpose is feedback and comments on the RDF Specifications.
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The <a href="http://www.mozilla.org/rdf/doc/">Mozilla RDF</a> forum has also
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been the focus of some general RDF-related discussions.</p>
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<a name="irc" id="irc"></a>
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<h4>#RDFIG - Internet Relay Chat (IRC) for Semantic Web Developers</h4>
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<p>Member of the RDF developer community can also augment mailing-list
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discussions with real time Internet chat tools. IRC is one such tool. There
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are a number of public IRC servers in existence: while W3C doesn't itself run
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such a server for general developer discussions, members of the Interest
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Group can often be be found on the <a
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href="http://freenode.net/">FreeNode</a> (formerly OpenProjects) IRC Network
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(channel #rdfig for general RDF IG discussion).</p>
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<p>IRC Connection details for #RDFIG:</p>
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<ul>
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<li>server: irc.freenode.net, port 6667, <a
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href="irc://irc.freenode.net:6667/rdfig">channel #rdfig</a></li>
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</ul>
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<h4>Collaboration: IRC Tools and Logs</h4>
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<p>The <a href="http://rdfig.xmlhack.com/">RDF Interest Group IRC
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Scratchpad</a>, a Web-based recommendation and annotation system, has been
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created by Edd Dumbill of XMLhack. The Scratchpad selectively logs comments
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made on the IRC channel, and is operated by an IRC bot
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'<code>dc_rdfig</code>' (see <a href="http://usefulinc.com/chump/">chump</a>
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instructions and source code release for more details). A <a
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href="http://rdfig.xmlhack.com/search/">full text search</a> facility and <a
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href="http://rdfig.xmlhack.com/index.rss">RSS feed</a> are available, as are
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the source XML files generated by the tool. Libby Miller has made an <a
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href="http://swordfish.rdfweb.org/discovery/2001/04/rdfig/">RDF-based search
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facility</a> for the RSS blog data. ILRT's <a
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href="http://ilrt.org/discovery/rdf/">RDF at a Glance</a> page shows one use
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of the RSS data.</p>
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<p>Complete <a href="http://ilrt.org/discovery/chatlogs/rdfig/">public
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logs</a> of the discussions on the #rdfig channel are also available (in
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text, html and rdf flavours), thanks to Dave Beckett of ILRT. These logs are
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created by the '<code>logger</code>' bot, which also offers search facilities
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(use: <code>/msg logger help</code> for more info).</p>
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<p><strong>Please note</strong>: IRC-hosted discussion should be considered
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public (insecure, loggable etc). IRC chats are not considered a formal
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mechanism for RDF Interest Group communications and discussion; it may be
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useful to circulate summaries of IRC discussion to the archived RDF IG
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mailing lists.</p>
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<p>IRC Resources: <a href="http://irchelp.org/">IRC Help</a>, <a
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href="http://irc.org/">IRC.org</a>, <a
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href="http://freenode.net/">OpenProjects IRC</a> (please read <a
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href="http://freenode.net/using_the_network.shtml">Fbout freenode: using the
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network</a>).</p>
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<p><em><a href="/People/DanBri/">Dan Brickley</a>, W3C/ILRT, RDF Interest
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Group Chair<br />
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Last updated: $Date: 2005/12/08 13:28:13 $</em></p>
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<h3>Recent changes (CVS log)</h3>
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Revision 1.35 2003/01/15 13:20:28 danbri
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Revision 1.34 2001/11/29 03:15:08 swick
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