The 2nd RDF F2F meeting took place on the 12-13 of October, using two locations: about half of the participants were in Cambridge, USA, hosted by MIT, while the other half were in London, UK, hosted by the BBC. Using … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
The RDF Working Group has published the First Public Working Draft of Turtle (“Terse RDF Triple Language”). Turtle has been in use by the Semantic Web community for a long time; this document is the first formal step to, eventually, … Continue reading
The RDF Working Group resolved its ISSUE-12, which is intended to “reconcile various forms of string literals”. The group resolved to accept the proposal documented on the WG’s wiki, with the modification that preferred output form (SHOULD) is “foo” and … Continue reading
I have already blogged on the concept of the RDFa 1.1 core default profile in a blog I published a few months ago when the second Last Call of the RDFa 1.1 draft was published. This default profile is automatically … Continue reading
The Rule Interchange Format Working Group has published a Group Note of RIF In RDF. This document specifies a reversible mapping (or transformation) from Rule Interchange Format (RIF) XML documents to Resource Description Framework (RDF) graphs. This mapping allows the … Continue reading
The World Wide Web Consortium’s RDF Web Applications Working Group has published the first draft of the RDF Interfaces specification. This is a companion specification to the upcoming RDF API and the recently published RDFa API. Until recently the group … Continue reading
The “Binary RDF Representation for Publication and Exchange (HDT)” specification has been published as a W3C Member Submission, co-authored by experts from DERI Galway, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, the Open University, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Alcatel-Lucent, Cisco, OpenLink Software, and … Continue reading
The RDF Working Group held its first face-to-face meeting on 13 & 14 April in Amsterdam. After two months of elaborate discussions the WG used this meeting to focus on the task it is chartered to do, namely updating RDF … Continue reading
The RDF working group started its work in earnest on 16 February 2011, with much interest and strong participation from the W3C community. The thirty-four participants represent companies large and small, academic institutions, non-profits and include several invited experts. The … Continue reading