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Linked Data Current Status

This page summarizes the relationships among specifications, whether they are finished standards or drafts. Below, each title links to the most recent version of a document. For related introductory information, see: Linked Data.

Drafts

Below are draft documents: Candidate Recommendations, Last Call Drafts, other Working Drafts. Some of these may become Web Standards through the W3C Recommendation Track process. Others may be published as Group Notes or become obsolete specifications.

Candidate Recommendations

2013-02-19

Turtle

The Resource Description Framework (RDF) is a general-purpose language for representing information in the Web.

Last Call Drafts

2013-05-21

Internationalization Tag Set (ITS) Version 2.0

This document defines data categories and their implementation as a set of elements and attributes called the Internationalization Tag Set (ITS) 2.0. ITS 2.0 is the successor of ITS 1.0; it is designed to foster the creation of multilingual Web content, focusing on HTML5, XML based formats in general, and to leverage localization workflows based on the XML Localization Interchange File Format (XLIFF). In addition to HTML5 and XML, algorithms to convert ITS attributes to RDFa and NIF are provided.

2013-05-16

JSON-LD 1.0 Processing Algorithms and API

An Application Programming Interface and a set of algorithms for programmatically transforming JSON-LD documents in order to make them easier to work with in programming environments like JavaScript, Python, and Ruby.

2013-04-11

JSON-LD 1.0

A common JSON representation format for expressing directed graphs; mixing both Linked Data and non-Linked Data in a single JSON document.

2013-03-12

The RDF Data Cube Vocabulary

There are many situations where it would be useful to be able to publish multi-dimensional data, such as statistics, on the web in such a way that it can be linked to related data sets and concepts. The Data Cube vocabulary provides a means to do this using the W3C RDF (Resource Description Framework) standard.

2013-03-12

Data Catalog Vocabulary (DCAT)

DCAT is an RDF vocabulary designed to facilitate interoperability between data catalogs published on the Web. This document defines the schema and provides examples for its use.

2012-10-23

An organization ontology

This document describes a core ontology for organizational structures, aimed at supporting linked-data publishing of organizational information across a number of domains. It is designed to allow domain-specific extensions to add classification of organzations and roles, as well as extensions to support neighbouring information such as organizational activities.

Other Working Drafts

2013-03-07

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 resources that describe their state using RDF.

2013-01-31

Linked Data Platform Use Cases and Requirements

A set of user stories, use cases, scenarios and requirements that motivate a simple read-write Linked Data architecture, based on HTTP access to web resources that describe their state using RDF.

2013-01-08

Registered Organization Vocabulary

This is a vocabulary for describing organizations that have gained legal entity status through a formal registration process, typically in a national or regional register. This document is the normative companion to the namespace document at http://www.w3.org/ns/regorg.

2012-04-05

Terms for describing people

This document defines a set of terms for describing people. It defines how to describe people's characteristics such as names or addresses and how to relate people to other things, for example to organizations or projects. For each term, guidance on the usage within a running example is provided. This document also defines mappings to widely used vocabularies to enable interoperability.