European Semantic Web Update
by Dan Brickley

Table of contents

• INTAP talk: European Semantic Web Update
• Introduction
• W3C Semantic Web Activity
• Where are we up to?
• RDF's advantage: Mixing independent vocabularies
• Characteristics of RDF/RDFS
• Basic OWL
• Characteristics of OWL
• European Perspective
• SWAD-Europe Overview
• What kinds of things do we do?
• Technology and Application areas
• Collecting (and answering) FAQs...
• Supporting SW developers through the Semantic Web Interest Group
• Surveying European SW projects
• EU 5th Framework (completing in 2004)
• Related Work
• 6th Framework (recently started)
• FP6 (continued)
• FP6 (continued...)
• Other EU...
• Possible near-term work items for W3C
• Business Futures
• Deployment issues
• Deployment examples
• What needs to be done?
• Conclusions
• Thank you
• Appendix: RDF Data Access: query and protocol