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<h2>What is the Semantic Web?</h2>
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<p property="dc:description" datatype="">The
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<strong>Semantic Web</strong>provides a common framework that allows
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<strong>data</strong> to be shared and reused across application, enterprise, and
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community boundaries. It is a collaborative effort led by W3C with participation
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from a large number of researchers and industrial partners. It is based on the
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Resource Description Framework (
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<a href="/RDF/">RDF</a>). See also the separate
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<a href="SW-FAQ">FAQ</a> for further information.</p>
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<p>The Semantic Web is a web of data. There is lots of data we all use every day,
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and it is not part of the web. I can see my bank statements on the web, and my
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photographs, and I can see my appointments in a calendar. But can I see my photos
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in a calendar to see what I was doing when I took them? Can I see bank statement
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lines in a calendar?</p>
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<p>Why not? Because we don't have a web of data. Because data is controlled by
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applications, and each application keeps it to itself.</p>
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<p>The Semantic Web is about two things. It is about common formats for
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integration and combination of data drawn from diverse sources, where on the
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original Web mainly concentrated on the interchange of documents. It is also
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about language for recording how the data relates to real world objects. That
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allows a person, or a machine, to start off in one database, and then move
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through an unending set of databases which are connected not by wires but by
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being about the same thing.</p>
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<p>
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See also
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<a href="http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/anews/" title="Activity News">the activity
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news</a> for an account of recent events, publications, etc.
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For links to tools, books, further details on the technologies,
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you can also refer to the
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<a href="http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/wiki">Semantic Web Standards Wiki</a>
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(and you are welcome to modify those pages when necessary and appropriate).
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You may also want to look at the collection of
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<a href="http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/sweo/public/UseCases/">SW Case Studies and Use
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Cases</a> to see how organizations are using these technologies today.
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Finally, for an exhaustive list of all the specifications published by
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the activity, please refer to the separate <a href="Specs.html">list
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of publications</a>.</p>
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<p>The following is a partial list of various publications and or interviews by
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the W3C Staff that help explain the goals and objectives of the Semantic Web.</p>
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<li>
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<a href="http://semanticweb.com/the-semantic-link-podcast-rss-feed-is-live_b17505">
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"Semantic Link Podcast Series"</a>, organized by Paul Miller, featuring
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Andraž Tori, Bernadette Hyland, Christine Connors, Eric Franzon, Eric Hoffer,
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Ivan Herman, Paul Miller, and Peter Brown.</li>
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<li>
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<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KY5skobffk0 ">"Tim Berners-Lee and
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Tim O'Reilly"</a>, Web 2.0 Summit 09 discussion (October 2009).</li>
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<li>
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<a href="http://blip.tv/file/2707910/">Interview with Tim Berners Lee</a> at a
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technology symposium at the Embassy of Finland in Washington, (October
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2009).</li>
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<li>
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<a href="http://thefigtrees.net/lee/sw/sciam/semantic-web-in-action">The
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Semantic Web in Action</a>, by Lee Feigenbaum, Ivan Herman, Tonya
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Hongsermeier, Eric Neumann, and Susie Stephens, Scientific American, 297(6),
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pp. 90-97, (December 2007).</li>
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<li>
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<a href="http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?articleID=00048144-10D2-1C70-84A9809EC588EF21&catID=2">
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The Semantic Web</a>, Scientific American, May 2001, Tim Berners-Lee, James
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Hendler and Ora Lassila.</li>
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<p>Details of
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<a rel="rdfs:seeAlso" href="http://www.w3.org/2007/11/Talks/Semantic_Web.html">
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recent and upcoming</a> Semantic Web related talks, given by the
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<a href="/People/">W3C Staff</a>, the staff of the
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<a href="/Consortium/Offices/">W3C Offices</a>, and members of the W3C Working
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Groups are available separately. A list of
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<em>all</em> Semantic Web related talks since 2004 is
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<a href="http://w3.org/brief/MjQ3">also available</a>.</p>
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<a id="groups">Groups</a>
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<p id="forums">The following groups are part of the Semantic Web Activity.</p>
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<h3 id="agroups">Active Groups</h3>
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<div id="swcg" about="[act:#cg]" typeof="foaf:Agent dc:Agent">
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<h4>
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<a rel="foaf:homepage" href="http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/CG/"
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property="dc:title org:name">Semantic Web Coordination Group</a>
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</h4>
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<p property="dc:description" datatype="">The
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<a href="/2001/sw/CG/">Semantic Web Coordination Group</a> is tasked to
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provide a forum for managing the interrelationships and interdependencies
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among groups focusing on standards and technologies that relate to this goals
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of the Semantic Web Activity. This group is designed to coordinate,
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facilitate and (where possible) help shape the efforts of other related
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groups to avoid duplication of effort and fragmentation of the Semantic Web
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by way of incompatible standards and technologies.</p>
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</div>
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<div id="rdb2rdf" about="[act:#rdb2rdf]" typeof="foaf:Agent dc:Agent">
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<h4>
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<a rel="foaf:homepage" href="http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/rdb2rdf/"
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property="dc:title org:name">RDB2RDF Working Group</a>
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</h4>
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<p property="dc:description" datatype="">The mission of the
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<a href="http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/rdb2rdf/">RDB2RDF Working Group</a> is to
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standardize a language for mapping relational data and relational database
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schemas into RDF and OWL, tentatively called the RDB2RDF Mapping Language,
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R2RML.</p>
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</div>
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<div id="rdfa" about="[act:#rdfa]" typeof="foaf:Agent dc:Agent">
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<h4>
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<a rel="foaf:homepage" href="http://www.w3.org/2010/02/rdfa/"
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property="dc:title org:name">RDF Web Applications Working Group</a>
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</h4>
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<p property="dc:description" datatype="">The mission of the
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<a href="http://www.w3.org/2010/02/rdfa/">RDF Web Applications Working
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Group</a>, formerly known as the W3C RDFa Working Group, is to support the developing
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use of RDFa for embedding structured data in Web documents in general. The
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Working Group will publish W3C Recommendations to extend and enhance the
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currently published RDFa 1.0 documents, including an API. The Working Group
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will also support the
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<a href="http://www.w3.org/html/wg/">HTML Working Group</a> in its work on
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incorporating RDFa in HTML5 and XHTML5.</p>
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</div>
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<div id="rdf-wg" about="[act:#rdf-wg]" typeof="foaf:Agent dc:Agent">
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<h4>
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<a rel="foaf:homepage" href="http://www.w3.org/2011/rdf-wg/"
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property="dc:title org:name">RDF Working Group</a>
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</h4>
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<p property="dc:description" datatype="">The mission of the
|
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<a href="http://www.w3.org/2011/rdf-wg/">RDF Working Group</a>, is to update
|
|
the 2004 version of the
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|
<a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/REC-rdf-concepts-20040210/">Resource
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|
Description Framework (RDF)</a> Recommendation. The scope of work is to extend
|
|
RDF to include some of the features that the community has identified as both
|
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desirable and important for interoperability based on experience with the
|
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2004 version of the standard, but without having a negative effect on
|
|
existing deployment efforts.</p>
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</div>
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<div id="sparql" about="[act:#sparql]" typeof="foaf:Agent dc:Agent">
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<h4>
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<a rel="foaf:homepage" href="http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/DataAccess/"
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property="dc:title org:name">SPARQL Working Group</a>
|
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</h4>
|
|
<p property="dc:description" datatype="">Formerly known as RDF Data Access
|
|
Working Group, it developed the SPARQL Query Language recommendation
|
|
<a href="http://www.w3.org/blog/SW/2008/01/15/sparql_is_a_recommendation">
|
|
published in January 2008</a>. 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.</p>
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</div>
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<div id="prov" about="[act:#prov]" typeof="foaf:Agent dc:Agent">
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<h4>
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|
<a rel="foaf:homepage" href="http://www.w3.org/2011/prov/"
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|
property="dc:title org:name">Provenance Working Group</a>
|
|
</h4>
|
|
<p property="dc:description" datatype="">The mission of the
|
|
<a href="http://www.w3.org/2011/prov/">Provenance Working Group</a> 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.</p>
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</div>
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<div id="swig" about="[act:#swig]" typeof="foaf:Agent dc:Agent">
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<h4>
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|
<a rel="foaf:homepage" href="http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/interest/"
|
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property="dc:title org:name">Semantic Web Interest Group</a>
|
|
</h4>
|
|
<p property="dc:description" datatype="">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
|
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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.</p>
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</div>
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<div id="hcls" about="[act:#hcls]" typeof="foaf:Agent dc:Agent">
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<h4>
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|
<a rel="foaf:homepage" href="http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/hcls/"
|
|
property="dc:title org:name">Semantic Web Health Care and Life Sciences
|
|
Interest Group</a>
|
|
</h4>
|
|
<p property="dc:description" datatype="">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.</p>
|
|
</div>
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|
<h3>
|
|
<a id="completed">Completed Groups</a>
|
|
</h3>
|
|
<p>The following groups have completed their deliverables and are no longer
|
|
expected to hold regular meetings.</p>
|
|
<div id="owl" about="[act:#owl]" typeof="foaf:Agent dc:Agent">
|
|
<h4>
|
|
<a rel="foaf:homepage" href="http://www.w3.org/2007/OWL/"
|
|
property="dc:title org:name">OWL Working Group</a>
|
|
</h4>
|
|
<p property="dc:description" datatype="">The mission of the OWL Working
|
|
Group, is to produce a W3C Recommendation that refines and extends the 2004
|
|
version of
|
|
<a href="/TR/owl-guide/">OWL</a>. 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.</p>
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</div>
|
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<div id="rif" about="[act:#rif]" typeof="foaf:Agent dc:Agent">
|
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<h4>
|
|
<a rel="foaf:homepage" href="http://www.w3.org/2005/rules/wg/"
|
|
property="dc:title org:name">Rules Interchange Format Working Group</a>
|
|
</h4>
|
|
<p property="dc:description" datatype="">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.</p>
|
|
</div>
|
|
<h3>
|
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<a id="pastGroups">Past Groups</a>
|
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</h3>
|
|
<div id="rdf" about="[act:#rdf]" typeof="foaf:Agent dc:Agent">
|
|
<h4>
|
|
<a rel="foaf:homepage" href="http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/RDFCore/"
|
|
property="dc:title org:name">RDF Core Working Group</a>
|
|
</h4>
|
|
<p property="dc:description" datatype="">The RDF Core Working Group was
|
|
<a href="/2001/sw/RDFCoreWGCharter">chartered</a> to consider update to the
|
|
RDF Model and Syntax Recommendation, and to a few revisions to the RDF Schema
|
|
specification.</p>
|
|
</div>
|
|
<div id="webont" about="[act:#webont]" typeof="foaf:Agent dc:Agent">
|
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<h4>
|
|
<a rel="foaf:homepage" href="http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/WebOnt/"
|
|
property="dc:title org:name">Web Ontology Working Group</a>
|
|
</h4>
|
|
<p property="dc:description" datatype="">The Web Ontology Working Group was
|
|
<a href="/2001/sw/WebOnt/charter">chartered</a> 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.</p>
|
|
</div>
|
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<div id="swd" about="[act:#swd]" typeof="foaf:Agent dc:Agent">
|
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<h4>
|
|
<a rel="foaf:homepage" href="http://www.w3.org/2006/07/SWD/"
|
|
property="dc:title org:name">Semantic Web Deployment Working Group</a>
|
|
</h4>
|
|
<p property="dc:description" datatype="">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.</p>
|
|
<p>This group is also responsible for the development of the
|
|
<a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/rdfa-syntax">RDFa</a> and
|
|
<a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/skos-reference">SKOS</a> specifications.</p>
|
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</div>
|
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<div id="swbpd" about="[act:#swbpd]" typeof="foaf:Agent dc:Agent">
|
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<h4>
|
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<a rel="foaf:homepage" href="http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/BestPractices/"
|
|
property="dc:title org:name">Semantic Web Best Practices and Deployment
|
|
Working Group</a>
|
|
</h4>
|
|
<p property="dc:description" datatype="">The focus of the
|
|
<a href="/2001/sw/BestPractices/">Semantic Web Best Practices and Deployment
|
|
Working Group</a> was to provide hands-on support for developers of Semantic
|
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Web applications.</p>
|
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</div>
|
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<div id="sweo" about="[act:#sweo]" typeof="foaf:Agent dc:Agent">
|
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<h4>
|
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<a rel="foaf:homepage" href="http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/sweo/"
|
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property="dc:title org:name">Semantic Web Education and Outreach Interest
|
|
Group</a>
|
|
</h4>
|
|
<p property="dc:description" datatype="">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
|
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educational resources.</p>
|
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</div>
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<div id="powder" about="[act:#powder]" typeof="foaf:Agent dc:Agent">
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<h4>
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<a rel="foaf:homepage" href="http://www.w3.org/2007/powder/"
|
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property="dc:title org:name">POWDER Working Group</a>
|
|
</h4>
|
|
<p property="dc:description" datatype="">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.</p>
|
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</div>
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<div id="grddl" about="[act:#grddl]" typeof="foaf:Agent dc:Agent">
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<h4>
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<a rel="foaf:homepage" href="http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/grddl-wg/"
|
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property="dc:title org:name">GRDDL Working Group</a>
|
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</h4>
|
|
<p property="dc:description" datatype="">The mission of this Working Group
|
|
was to complement the concrete RDF/XML syntax with a mechanism to relate
|
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other XML syntaxes (especially XHTML dialects or "microformats") to the RDF
|
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abstract syntax via transformations identified by URIs.</p>
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