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Round 9
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Contents
General Information
Target Date | 2009-10-06 |
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This Round | Round 9 |
Previous Round | Round 8 |
Announcements
Included in All Documents
The following text (if any), with its header, will be included in the status section of each document. This may be left empty.
(Nothing for this round.)
Per-Document "Summary of Changes"
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Guide
This document was developed to provide a high-level guide to the RIF documents and and very brief introduction to the RIF architecture. It should serve as a general starting point for the RIF specification.
Core
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BLD
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FLD
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SWC
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DTB
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PRD
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Test
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XML-Data
This new draft specifies how RIF rules can be used with XML data. Although conceptually similar to RIF RDF and OWL Compatibility, and serving a parallel function, it is being developed later in the life of the Working Group and is not expect to reach Recommendation at the same time as the other Rec-Track RIF documents.
OWLRL
OWL 2 RL is a profile of OWL 2 for reasoning with rule systems, and the OWL 2 RL specification enumerates the necessary rules for doing OWL inference within that profile. That specification, however, uses a rule syntax intended for human readers, not machine consumption. This document bridges the gap to machine consumption by showing how to convert those rules into RIF Core rules, and discussing issues related to using a RIF Core reasoner as an OWL 2 RL reasoner.
Announcements of the Round
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For W3C News
The Rule Interchange Format (RIF) Working Group has published six Candidate Recommendations and now invites developers to being implementation. Together, they allow systems using a variety of rule languages and rule-based technologies to interoperate with each other and with Semantic Web technologies.
Three of the drafts define XML formats with formal semantics for storing and transmitting rules:
- The RIF Production Rule Dialect (PRD) is designed for the kinds of rules used in modern Busines Rule Management systems.
- The RIF Basic Logic Dialect (BLD) is a foundation for Logic Programming, classical logic, and related formalisms.
- The RIF Core Dialect is the common subset of PRD and BLD, useful when having a ubiquitous platform is paramount.
The other drafts:
- RIF Datatypes and Builtins (DTB) specifies the datatypes and standard operations (modeled on XPath Functions) available in all RIF dialects
- RIF RDF and OWL Compatibility specifies how RIF works with RDF, RDFS, OWL 1, and OWL 2.
- RIF Framework for Logic Dialects (FLD) provides a mechanism for specifying extended dialects, beyond BLD, when more expressive power is required.
The group has also published a new version of RIF Test Cases, and three new First Public Working Drafts: RIF Overview, RIF Combination with XML data and OWL 2 RL in RIF.
The Working Group asks all developers to send implementation reports, and other comments, to public-rif-comments@w3.org by 29 October 2009. Learn more about the Semantic Web Activity.
Publicity Tracking
Please record all publicity activities here. This is useful to avoid overlap and help ensure that we've announced the round in all the appropriate places. Copied and modified from Round 6#Publicity.
Forum | Coordinator | Date or Link-to-Posting |
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W3C News | Sandro | |
Sandro |