Semantic Web Specification at W3C
by Eric Prud'hommeaux

Table of contents

• Semantic Web Specification at W3C
• RDF and other W3C Technology
• What motivates us to work in RDF?
• Semantic Web "Layer Cake"
• Publication History
• Specifying the "Layer Cake"
• W3C Standardizes RDF, RDF Schema, and OWL
• What we are doing now
• W3C Technical Plenary
• Semanic Web Best Practices and Deployment Working Group
• RDF Data Access Working Group
• Expressivity
• RDF Query Issues
• What we have left to do...
• RDF Rules
• Research Issues
• Context, Attribution, Provenance...
• Interaction with Conventional Databases
• Conclusions:
• More Topics