RIF Working Group
From RIF
The mission of the Rule Interchange Format (RIF) Working Group is to produce W3C Recommendations for rules interchange
Events
- Telecon 10 November Agenda
- Topics: Public_Comments, Import syntax, Implementations, Test cases
- Telecon 27 October Agenda Minutes (draft)
- RESOLVED: accept Multiple_Context_Error as an Import Rejection test case
- Telecon 13 October Agenda Minutes
- Telecon 29 September Agenda Minutes
- RESOLVED: Publish RIF-OWL2/RL as first public working draft.
- RESOLVED: Publish RIF-XMLdata as first public working draft, subject to agreement on editorial notes.
- RESOLVED: Publish RIF-Guide as "RIF Overview".
- RESOLVED: Publish RIF Test cases as 2nd public working draft.
- Telecon 15 September Agenda Minutes
WG Contacts
- Email chairs+staff at team-rif-chairs@w3.org
- Chris Welty (email) , IBM Research, Chair
- Christian de Sainte Marie (email), ILOG, Chair
- Sandro Hawke (email), W3C, Staff contact
Info
- RIF Charter
- All Working Group participants are automatically subscribed to the group's main discussion list public-rif-wg@w3.org (public ). Non-participants may not subscribe to or post to the list, but they may read the archives on the web archive (including using the RSS feed of the archives).
- The group will also use the Member-confidential administrative list, member-rif-wg@w3.org (member-visible archive).
- Comments from the public to the Working Group are welcome at public-rif-comments@w3.org (public archive).
- The RIF Working group is part of the W3C Semantic Web activity
See the new FAQ.
Deliverables
| Wiki | Current Version | Next Expected |
|---|---|---|
| Core | CR 1-Oct | Nov-09 (PR) |
| BLD | CR 1-Oct | Nov-09 (PR) |
| PRD | CR 1-Oct | Nov-09 (PR) |
| DTB | CR 1-Oct | Nov-09 (PR) |
| SWC | CR 1-Oct | Nov-09 (PR) |
| FLD | CR 1-Oct | Nov-09 (PR) |
| PlainLiteral | Rec 27 Oct | |
| UCR | WD 18-Dec | Dec-09 (Note) |
| Test | WD 1-Oct | Dec-09 (Note) |
| XML-data | WD 1-Oct | Dec-09 (WD) |
| OWL2/RL | WD 1-Oct | Dec-09 (Note) |
| Overview | WD 1-Oct | Dec-09 (Note) |
Other Documents
- Test cases listing
- Papers and Presentations with RIF Focus
- Planned Implementations of RIF
- Publicity Efforts
- Arch (working version of the RIF Architecture draft)
- Glossary
- PRD Discussions
- PRD RAF
Tracking Public Comments
See Public Comments
Older Task Areas
- Design Principles and Design Constraints
- Rulesystem Arrangement Framework (aka RIF-RAF)
- OWL Compatibility and RDF Compatibility
- Extensible_Design
Related work
- OMG PRR (beta 1 specification) (dated 4 November 2007)
- Comments are welcome, and should be directed to issues@omg.org by December 15, 2007.
Group Membership and Joining
The group holds telecons weekly and has 2-4 face-to-face meetings each year. See Meetings.
- List of participants (Member-only)
- list of participants (public)
- Join or quit the group
If you want to be involved without joining the Working Group, you are encouraged to review and comment on the Working Drafts as they become available. Feedback from people actually implementing the specifications is especially valuable.
Charter, Meeting Records, and History
The RIF Working Group Charter shows what the W3C has asked this working group to do. Meeting minutes and agendas are recorded here.
- Information about Meetings
- RIF WG Actions and issues tracker
- Record of WG Resolutions
- RIF common terms and glossary (these should be merged).
W3C Working Group Resources
- W3C Guidebook — the Art of Consensus Guide W3C member confidential
- W3C Editor's Home Page
- W3C Process Document (the W3C governing document)
- W3C Groups, Participants (dbwg) W3C member confidential
Staff
- Email chairs+staff at team-rif-chairs@w3.org
- Chris Welty (email) , IBM Research, Chair
- Christian de Sainte Marie (email), ILOG, Chair
- Sandro Hawke (email), W3C, Staff contact
