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Post details: Last Call for Six Rule Interchange Format (RIF) Drafts
Saturday, July 4th 2009
06:55:26, Categories: Activity news, Rules
Last Call for Six Rule Interchange Format (RIF) Drafts
The W3C Rule Interchange Format (RIF) Working Group has published six Last Call Working Drafts. Together, they allow systems using a variety of rule languages and rule-based technologies to interoperate with each other and with other 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 Business 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.
- 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.
By: Ivan Herman
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