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<p><a href="http://www.w3.org/"><img width="72" height="48" src="http://www.w3.org/Icons/w3c_home.gif"
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<h1>Semantic Web Interest Group Charter</h1>
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<p><strong>Note:</strong> This is the charter for the Semantic Web
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Interest
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Group (formerly the RDF Interest Group). This document supersedes
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the
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Interest Group's <a href="/2003/12/swa/swig-charter">previous
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Charter</a>.</p>
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<blockquote> <em>Per section <a href="http://www.w3.org/2005/10/Process-20051014/groups.html#GAGeneral">6
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Working Groups, Interest Groups, and Coordination Groups</a>
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of the W3C Process, this charter, and any changes to it, take
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effect by way of an announcement to the W3C Membership via <a href="http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Member/w3c-ac-members/">w3c-ac-members</a>.</em></blockquote>
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<h2>About</h2>
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<p>The Semantic Web Interest Group is designed as a forum to support
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developers and users of Semantic Web technologies such as RDF,
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SPARQL, SKOS and OWL. The
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group in particular serves to help developers create vocabularies
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and
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applications to support a Web data marketplace combining
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harvesting,
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syndication, metadata and Web Service techniques.</p>
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<h2 class="toc">Table of Contents</h2>
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<ol>
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<li><a href="#Mission">Mission statement</a></li>
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<li><a href="#Scope">Scope of the work</a></li>
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<li><a href="#Deliverables">Deliverables</a></li>
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<li><a href="#Coordination">Coordination with other Activities and
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Groups</a></li>
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<li><a href="#meetings">Meetings and Discussion fora</a></li>
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<li><a href="#membership">Membership</a></li>
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<li><a href="#Communications">Communication and Confidentiality</a></li>
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<li><a href="#Duration">Duration</a></li>
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<li><a href="#Ipr">Intellectual Property Rights (IPR)</a></li>
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<li><a href="#Contact">Contact</a></li>
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<h2><a name="Mission" id="Mission"></a></h2>
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<h2>1. Mission statement</h2>
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<p>The Semantic Web <a href="http://www.w3.org/2005/10/Process-20051014/groups.html#GroupsIG">Interest
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Group</a> is a forum for W3C Members and non-Members to discuss
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innovative
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Semantic Web applications. The group will focus primarily on
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applications of
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the W3C Semantic Web technologies (<a href="http://www.w3.org/RDF/">RDF</a>,
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<a href="http://www.w3.org/2004/OWL/">OWL</a>, <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/rdf-sparql-query/">SPARQL</a>,
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etc), on potential
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future work items related to technologies, and the relationship of
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that work
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to other activities of W3C and to the broader social and legal
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context in
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which the Web is situated.</p>
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<p>The Semantic Web Interest Group hosts discussions of both
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architectural/systems issues and application (e.g. <a href="/TandS">T&S</a>)
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interests; it is a forum for developers and users
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of Semantic Web technology. The group is a continuation of the
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earlier RDF
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Interest Group and issues addressed previously by the <a href="/PICS">PICS</a>
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initiative. initiative. Specifically, the Interest
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Group may explore the application of W3C Semantic Web technologies
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in the
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context of the social, legal, and technological issues surrounding
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Internet
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content selection, filtering, labelling, signing, quality
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assurance etc. Work
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items from other fora may be brought to the attention of the
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Interest Group
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for comment.</p>
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<p>An important function of the Interest Group is information
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sharing within
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and between application communities. Conference announcements and
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post-conference reviews to the Interest Group mailing list help
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advise W3C
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staff and W3C Members, as well as the Semantic Web Community at
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large, where
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the W3C might most effectively allocate resources.</p>
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<h2><a name="Scope" id="Scope"></a>2. Scope of the work</h2>
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<p>The Semantic Web Interest Group is designed as a forum to support
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developers and users of Semantic Web technologies such as RDF,
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SPARQL, and
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OWL. The group in particular serves to help developers create
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vocabularies
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and applications to support a Web data marketplace combining
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harvesting,
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syndication, metadata and Web Service techniques.</p>
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<p>Semantic Web developers are already collaborating on vocabularies
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for
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areas such as Sitemaps, robots.txt, RSS, Dublin Core, FOAF,
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favicon,
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relationships between relational databases and RDF, syntactic
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inclusion and
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association of metadata etc. The Interest Group provides a forum
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to support
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such collaborative vocabulary development, through the use of
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email
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discussion, scheduled topical chats (using IRC), Wiki and Weblog
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tools.</p>
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<h2><a name="Deliverables" id="Deliverables">3. Deliverables</a></h2>
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<p>As an Interest Group, the Semantic Web Interest Group does not
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develop
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specifications or code, and, as a body, it does not have a
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specific set of
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deliverables. The Interest Group may be asked to review Last Call
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Working
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Drafts and Proposed Recommendations. The Interest Group may also
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make
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proposals to other W3C Groups through the W3C Team contact when
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there is
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evidence of sufficient Member interest in a work item.</p>
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<p>The Interest Group may work on (non recommendation-track) <a href="http://www.w3.org/2005/10/Process-20051014/tr.html#Reports">W3C
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technical
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reports</a>, for publication as 'Interest Group Notes'.</p>
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<h2><a name="Coordination" id="Coordination">4. Coordination with
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other
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Activities and Groups</a></h2>
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<p>Informal coordination is done via the Interest Group's mailing
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lists. More
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formal coordination is done within the Semantic Web Coordination
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Group. The
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Chair is a member of the <a href="/2001/sw/CG/">W3C Semantic Web
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Coordination
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Group</a> (W3C <a href="/Member/">member</a> only).</p>
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<p>Discussion of Web Service applications and technology is welcome
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within
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the Semantic Web Interest Group, however detailed collaboration
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and design
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discussions on the relationship between Semantic Web and Web
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Service
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technology should be directed to W3C's <a href="http://www.w3.org/2002/ws/swsig/">Semantic
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Web Services Interest
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Group</a>.</p>
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The Semantic Web Interest Group is also a forum where W3C encourages
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the
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presentation of research work-in-progress. By tracking such work W3C
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stays
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informed of potential future standardization opportunities. The MIT
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<a href="http://dig.csail.mit.edu/">Decentralized Information Group</a>
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is one
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example of such a research group who we hope will continue to
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maintain close
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ties with SWIG.
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<h2><a id="meetings" name="meetings"></a>5. Meetings and Discussion
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fora</h2>
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<p>The Interest Group functions primarily through open e-mail
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distribution
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lists hosted by W3C. The main IG list is
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<semantic-web@w3.org>, with a
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publicly accessible <a href="http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/semantic-web/">archive</a>.
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Other
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lists sponsored by the Interest Group include <a href="http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-rdf-logic/"
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checked="true">www-rdf-logic</a>,
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<a href="http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-rdf-calendar/">www-rdf-calendar</a>,
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<a href="http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-sparql-dev/">sparql-dev</a>,
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<a href="http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-annotation/">www-annotation</a>,
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and <a href="http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-vocabs/">public-vocabs</a>.
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The <a href="/2001/sw/interest/">Interest Group</a> home page
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provides the
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authoritative list of W3C email lists sponsored by the Group.</p>
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<p>The Semantic Web Interest Group exists primarily as an online
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forum; it
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does not typically conduct weekly phone conferences. The Interest
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Group may
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also conduct virtual meetings using email, IRC, wiki and
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teleconference
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facilities, although the large scale, International nature of the
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group
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motivates a focus on low cost, asynchronous mechanisms such as
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email. The
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Interest Group may on occasion meet or sponsor
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"Birds-Of-a-Feather" sessions
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at conferences, W3C Technical Plenaries or alongside other W3C
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meetings, at
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the discretion of the Chair and W3C staff contact.</p>
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<p>The Interest Group communicates primarily in English, yet seeks
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to serve
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an International community. Individuals and groups that can help
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support
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cross-language discussion and collaboration are particularly
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welcome as
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participants in the Interest Group.</p>
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<h2><a id="membership" name="membership"></a>6. Membership</h2>
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<p>Any person interested in the application of or extensions to the
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<a href="/RDF">Resource Description Framework</a> is eligible to
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participate in
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this Interest Group; W3C Membership is not a prerequisite.</p>
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<h2><a id="Communications" name="Communications"></a>7.
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Communications and
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confidentiality</h2>
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<p>The Semantic Web Interest Group is a public forum. SW IG mailing
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lists and
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their archives (primarily <a href="http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/semantic-web/">semantic-web</a>)
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are publicly accessible.</p>
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<h2><a id="Duration" name="Duration"></a>8. Duration</h2>
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<p>The Semantic Web Interest Group is part of the W3C <a href="/2001/sw/">Semantic
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Web Activity</a> and is chartered until the end of
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the Activity, 28 February 2013.</p>
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<h2><a name="Ipr" id="Ipr">9. Intellectual Property Rights (IPR)</a></h2>
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<p>The Semantic Web Interest Group provides an opportunity to share
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perspectives on Semantic Web technology and applications. W3C
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advises that
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information shared in the interest group through mailing list and
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meetings is
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publicly visible. W3C reminds participants to disclose, where
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known, the IPR
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status of information that they share in the Interest Group
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meetings and
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materials, in accordance with <a href="/Consortium/Patent-Policy-20030520.html#sec-Disclosure">Section
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6</a>
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of the W3C Patent Policy.</p>
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<h2><a name="Contact" id="Contact">10. Contact</a></h2>
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<p>The chair of the Interest Group is <a href="mailto:danbri@danbri.org">Dan
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Brickley
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<danbri@danbri.org></a>, the W3C Staff Contact is <a href="mailto:ivan@w3.org">Ivan
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Herman <ivan@w3.org></a>.</p>
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<hr />
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<address class="contact"> <a href="http://www.w3.org/People/Ivan/">Ivan
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Herman</a> <ivan@w3.org>, (W3C) Semantic Web Activity Lead
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</address>
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