WWW2003 SWAD-Europe project overview

SWAD-Europe: W3C Semantic Web Advanced Development for Europe

Dan Brickley <danbri@w3.org> (W3C)

SWAD-Europe Overview

SWAD-Europe...

...is a 5 partner collaborative EU project
...originated within W3C's SW Activity
...extends SWAD(-MIT) previous development model
...is about and in support of W3C's SW Activity, but managed independently.
...complements and feeds into 'standards track' work

Project Partners

W3C
ILRT / University of Bristol (project management)
Hewlett Packard
Stilo
CCLRC / RAL

What kinds of things do we do?

Collecting and answering FAQs (reports, online discussions)
Exploring possible future work items (eg. RDF query)
SW developer map in RDF/SVG (& postcard)
Workshops, real and virtual; query, calendar, geo...
Opensource tools and technology demonstrations

Technology and Application areas

Reviewing and developing tools for accessing, storing and searching SemWeb data
Case studies and demos, eg. thesaurus management, semantic blogging
Developer discussion on "seed applications", such as image annotation, calendaring
Technology integration: xml and rdf, schema languages, svg, query, web services...

Collecting (and answering) FAQs...

SWAD-Europe is about providing answers to questions about RDF, metadata, and the Semantic Web

How do I combine RDF and XML Schema technology?
What is the state of the art in RDF databases, query languages...?
What practical techniques are there for combining Dublin Core, educational, multimedia, and rights metadata within a single application?
Who else is exploring these issues?

Supporting SW developers through the RDF Interest Group

Future plans

Technical work (reports, demos)
More focus on integration
Support evolution of RDF Interest Group (SW Interest Group proposal)
- semi-formal developer collaboration (email, irc)
- using Semantic Web technology (RDF/OWL, SVG, RSS, rdf-calendar...)
Lightweight collaboration as launchpad for more formal work (eg. RDF Query?)

Questions?

http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/Europe/