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MathML

What

An XML language for writing down mathematical expressions.

Two styles: Presentation and Content

Content markup for the set: {x | x < 1} :

<set>
  <bvar><ci> x </ci></bvar>
  <condition>
    <apply>
      <lt/>
      <ci> x </ci>
      <cn> 1 </cn>
    </apply>
  </condition>
  <ci> x </ci>
</set>
  

MathML

Why

MathML might be suitable for expressing rules (ie a RIF syntax!).

We may want to use MathML in writing our documents.

MathML

Who

W3C Math Working Group

Stan Devitt (RIF-WG Alternate from Agfa) credited among the "principal authors"

MathML

Where

http://www.w3.org/TR/MathML2/

WebArch

What

Core design of the Web (post hoc), focussing on good practices.

Architecture of the World Wide Web, Volume One
W3C Recommendation 15 December 2004

• Identify with URIs
• Safe retrieval
• Generic URIs
• QName Mapping

These are the minimally constraining design guidelines that allowed the Web to spread the way it did: a little a time, with each new bit benefitting from the rest of the Web.

WebArch

Who

(TAG intersect Rules): Tim Berners-Lee, Dan Connolly: Rep by me

RDF

OWL

XSD

XML Schema Datatypes

Part of the XML Schema language

XPath Functions

XQuery 1.0 and XPath 2.0 Functions and Operators

Elements of an expression language operating on XSD

Used in part by SWRL, SPARQL, (not to mention XQuery, XPath, XSLT)

Expertise?

SPARQL

SPARQL Protocol And RDF Query Language

RDF Data Access Working Group (DAWG)

Lets you query RDF knowedge bases; HTTP-based protocol

SWBPDWG

Semantic Web Best Practices and Deployment WG

Many task forces

• N-Ary in RDF