Semantic Web Specifications
Semantic Web foundation specifications RDF, RDF Schema and OWL are W3C Recommendations as of Feb 2004 (press release and testimonials)
Standardization work is underway in Query and Best Practices.
Strong (and growing) community, vendor deployment
- Nokia, HP, IBM, Oracle, Vodafone, Adobe, etc.
Building upon the foundation that is the basis of a Web of Document to enable a Web of Data