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
Stefan Schumacher published a German translation of the W3C document “XHTML+RDFa 1.1” under the same (English) title.
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
The W3C Provenance Working Group has published a Last Call Working Draft of Constraints of the Provenance Data Model. This document defines a subset of PROV instances called valid PROV instances. The intent of validation is ensure that a PROV instance represents a … Continue reading
The W3C RDB2RDF Working Group has published two Proposed Recommendations today: R2RML: RDB to RDF Mapping Language. This document describes R2RML, a language for expressing customized mappings from relational databases to RDF datasets. Such mappings provide the ability to view … Continue reading
The RDF Web Applications Working Group has published three Group Notes that, while advanced, were not completed before the end of the group’s charter. For more information, see the explanation in each individual document. RDFa API provides and API for … Continue reading
The W3C RDF Working Group has published a Working Draft of RDF 1.1 Concepts and Abstract Syntax. This document defines the RDF data model. Notable changes since the previous working draft include the introduction of new datatypes for HTML fragments and language-tagged strings, a re-worked XML … Continue reading
The W3C launched the new Linked Data Platform (LDP) Working Group to promote the use of linked data on the Web. Per its charter, the group will explain how to use a core set of services and technologies to build … Continue reading
The HTML5 Working Group has recently published ten documents, updating a number of HTML5 related Working Drafts. From the Semantic Web perspective, two documents are of a particular interest: A new version of the “HTML+RDFa 1.1” specification. This version, developed … Continue reading
The RDF Web Applications Working Group has published three Candidate Recommendation documents: RDFa Core 1.1, RDFa Lite 1.1 and XHTML+RDFa 1.1. Together, these documents outline the vision for RDFa in a variety of XML and HTML-based Web markup languages. RDFa … Continue reading