OWL Working Group
From OWL
The mission of this Working Group is to produce a W3C Recommendation that refines and extends OWL, the Web Ontology Language
Nearby
- All Working Group participants are automatically subscribed to the group's main discussion list public-owl-wg@w3.org (public archive). 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-owl-wg@w3.org (member-visible archive).
- Comments from the public to the Working Group are welcome at public-webont-comments@w3.org (public archive).
- The OWL Working group is part of the W3C Semantic Web activity
The OWL Web Ontology Language is designed for use by applications that need to process the content of information instead of just presenting information to humans. OWL facilitates greater machine interpretability of Web content than that supported by XML, RDF, and RDF Schema (RDF-S) by providing additional vocabulary along with a formal semantics. Learn more in the OWL Language Overview
Deliverables
- Public Working Drafts
- Schedule
- September 2007: Group Formation
- See the charter timeline for more information
Group Membership and Joining
The group meets weekly and have 2-4 face-to-face meetings each year. Teleconferences are weekly at 1PM Boston time.
- List of participants (Member-only)
- list of participants (public)
- join (or quit) the group (see instructions for joining)
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 OWL Working Group Charter shows what the W3C has asked this working group to do.
- Meeting minutes and agendas are recorded here.
- History
- First Teleconference October 10, 2007
- First F2F Manchester, U.K., 6-7 December 2007
- Second F2F Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA, 3-4 April 2008
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
OWL 1.0 Resources
Staff
- Email chairs+staff at team-owl-chairs@w3.org
- Ian Horrocks (email) , Oxford University, Chair
- Alan Ruttenberg (email) , Science Commons, Chair
- Sandro Hawke (email), W3C, Staff contact
- Ivan Herman (email), W3C, alternate staff contact, Semantic Web Activity Lead
