Proposed Edited Recommendations published for OWL 2

Posted on October 18, 2012 by Ivan Herman

The OWL Working Group has published twelve Proposed Edited Recommendations today, and two Working Group Notes. The main reason for the publication of an edited version is the fact that the “XML Schema Definition Language (XSD) 1.1, Part 2: Datatypes” has been recently published as a Recommendation. With the publication of XSD 1.1, the elements of OWL 2 which are based on XSD 1.1 are now considered required. Also, minor typographical errors and incorporation of editorial errata from the official OWL2 errata page have also been included.

Comments on the Proposed Edited Recommendations are welcome through 15 November. The documents are:

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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