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.
The Rule Interchange Format Working Group has published a set of twelve documents, advancing the Rule Interchange Format (RIF) to Proposed Edited Recommendation. The Working Group has made minor editorial improvements to its six Recommendations-track specification and its six Working … Continue reading →
The OWL Working Group has published the Second Edition of the OWL 2 ontology language as a W3C Edited Recommendation. OWL 2, part of W3C’s Semantic Web toolkit, allows people to capture knowledge about a particular application domain (e.g, energy … Continue reading →
The Liverpool John Moores University has provided a W3C Semantic Web Case Study on “Using the Semantic Web to Enhance the Teaching of Dance”. The case study describes how the Semantic Web can assist dancers, by tagging their video collections … Continue reading →
IBM has provided a W3C Semantic Web Case Study on “Open Services Lifecycle Collaboration framework based on Linked Data”. The case study describes how a read/write Linked Data approach is used as application integration platform by IBM Rational.
The W3C SPARQL Working Group has published today a set of eleven documents, advancing most of SPARQL 1.1 to Proposed Recommendation. Building on the success of SPARQL 1.0, SPARQL 1.1 is a full-featured standard system for working with RDF data, including … Continue reading →
The W3C Linked Data Platform (LDP) Working Group has published the First Public Working Draft of Linked Data Platform 1.0. A set of best practices and simple approach for a read-write Linked Data architecture, based on HTTP access to web … Continue reading →
曾新红 (Xinhong Zeng) and 蔡庆河 (Qinghe Cai) published a simplified Chinese translation of the “OWL 2 Web Ontology Language New Features and Rationale”, under the title “OWL2 Web本体语言新特性与原理”.
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 … Continue reading →
The Semantic Web Interest Group has published a new version of the Group Note of Microdata to RDF. HTML microdata is an extension to HTML used to embed machine-readable data into HTML documents. Whereas the microdata specification describes a means of markup, the … Continue reading →