The W3C Government Linked Data Working Group has published two Last Call Working Drafts: The RDF Data Cube Vocabulary. This is an RDF vocabulary for publishing multidimensional data, particularly statistical data. It is compatible with the cube model that underlies SDMX (Statistical … Continue reading
The W3C Linked Data Platform (LDP) Working Group has published a Working Draft of Linked Data Platform 1.0. This document specifies a set of best practices and simple approach for a read-write Linked Data architecture, based on HTTP access to … Continue reading
The W3C RDF Working Group has published a Working Draft of RDF 1.1 Concepts and Abstract Syntax. RDF 1.1 Concepts and Abstract Syntax defines an abstract syntax (a data model) which serves to link all RDF-based languages and specifications. The abstract syntax has … Continue reading
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 RDB2RDF Working Group has published two W3C 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 existing relational data … Continue reading
The RDF Web Applications Working Group has published RDFa Core 1.1, RDFa Lite 1.1, and XHTML+RDFa 1.1 as W3C Recommendations. The group also published the RDFa 1.1 Primer as a Working Note. Together, these documents outline the vision for RDFa in a variety of XML and HTML-based Web … 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 specification is in RDFa 1.1 is in Candidate Recommendation. This means that implementations are gathered around an extensive test suite (close to 300 tests) to produce a suitable implementation report. Well… three implementations are already in a neck-and-neck race … Continue reading
The “Linked Data Basic Profile 1.0” specification has been published as a W3C Member Submission, co-authored by experts from IBM, DERI, EMC, Oracle, Red Hat, SemanticWeb.com, and Tasktop. This specification defines a set of best practices and a simple approach … Continue reading
The RDF Web Applications Working Group has published the First Public Working Draft for RDFa Lite 1.1 and an updated Working Draft for the RDFa 1.1 Primer. One critique of RDFa is that is has too much functionality, leaving first-time … Continue reading