The RDF Working Group has published the First Public Working Draft of RDF 1.1 Concepts and Abstract Syntax. This document is the first version of the document that, eventually, will replace the similar document published in 2004. The most significant changes from the 2004 edition are: modified string literals, a section on skolemization of blank nodes, or many updated references to other specifications (including a change in terminology from “URI references” to “IRIs”). Various areas of work to be tackled in upcoming working drafts are also highlighted throughout the document, but should not yet be understood as an exhaustive list.
About Ivan Herman
Ivan Herman is the Semantic Web Activity Lead at W3C. He graduated as a mathematician at the Eötvös Loránd University of Budapest, Hungary, in 1979. After a brief scholarship at the Université Paris VI he joined the Hungarian research institute in computer science (SZTAKI) where he worked for 6 years. He left Hungary in 1986 and, after a few years in industry, he joined the Centre for Mathematics and Computer Sciences (CWI) in Amsterdam where he has held a tenure position since 1988. He received a PhD degree in Computer Science in 1990 at the Leiden University, in the Netherlands. Ivan joined the W3C team as Head of Offices in January 2001 while maintaining his position at CWI. He served as Head of Offices until June 2006, when he was asked to take the Semantic Web Activity Lead position.
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