RIF Working Group
From RIF
The mission of the Rule Interchange Format (RIF) Working Group is to produce W3C Recommendations for rules interchange
Events
- F2F10 26-28 May, 2008, Galway
- Do not forget to register by May 10!
- Telecon 6 May 2008 Agenda
- PROPOSED: If we get a consensus on one of Sandro's options, we will pass a resolution accordingly and close issue-34 during the telecon.
- PROPOSED: We will pass resolutions during the telecon on any of the issues raised in Axel's email on which we will have a consensus.
- Topics: ISSUE-52 (OWL/RDF entailment regime), ISSUE-53 (annotation properties in OWL), ISSUE-54 (safeness in BLD+OWL-DL), ISSUE-34 (extensibility of data type support), DTB
- Telecon 29 April 2008 Agenda Minutes (draft)
- Telecon 22 April 2008 Agenda Minutes
- Telecon 15 April 2008 Agenda Minutes
- RESOLVED: That FLD be published as a FPWD with [three additional] Editor's Notes.
- RESOLVED: That BLD be published as a WD with [three additional] Editor's Notes (same as FLD).
- RESOLVED: Publish rif-rdf-owl (aka SWC) as WD.
- RESOLVED: Close ISSUE-14. It is addressed in the RDF+OWL document
- RESOLVED: Close ISSUE-15. It is addressed in the RDF+OWL document
- RESOLVED: Close ISSUE-24. It is addressed in the RDF+OWL document. At the time the issue was opened, Core was BLD.
- RESOLVED: Close ISSUE-16, it is addressed (as far as Phase 1) in FLD and BLD through the external call mechanism
- RESOLVED: Postpone ISSUE-17, ISSUE-18, ISSUE-19 and ISSUE-20. They are not covered by Phase I of RIF.
- RESOLVED: Close ISSUE-21 - unclear what it means and most likely subsumed by ISSUE-38.
- RESOLVED: Remove ISSUE-26 from critical path (of BLD 1.0).
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
Deliverables
| UCR | Core | BLD | FLD | RDF+OWL | DTB | PRD | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wiki Page | UCR | Core | BLD | FLD | SWC | DTB | PRD |
| Latest Public Snapshot (TR) | 2006 | 30-Oct | 15-Apr | 15-Apr | 15-Apr | none | none |
| Next TR Expected | 31-May | ?? | 31-May | 31-May | 31-May | 31-May | ?? |
| Latest Internal Snapshot | none | none | 15-Apr | 15-Apr | 15-Apr | none | 19-Feb |
| Issues/Actions | tracker | tracker | tracker | tracker | tracker | tracker | tracker |
| Latest Internal Reviews | 1 2 3 | 1 2 3 4 | 1 |
Other Documents
- Arch (working version of the RIF Architecture draft)
- Implementation Plans
- Glossary
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
