This page lists the latest versions of all W3C Recommendatations and Notes that have been published by the various Semantic Web Activity Groups or relevant Incubator Groups. For a more complete lists of specifications, including older, obsolete versions and drafts, see the general page on W3C documents.

See also the list of translations for RDF, GRDDL, RDFa, RDB2RDF, SPARQL, OWL, POWDER, PROV, and RIF

You may want to look at the collection of SW Case Studies and Use Cases to see how organizations are using these technologies today.

 Resource Description Framework (RDF)

• RDF Primer, W3C Recommendation, February 10, 2004, Frank Manola and Eric Miller, eds.
• RDF/XML Syntax Specification (Revised), W3C Recommendation, February 10, 2004, Dave Beckett, ed.
• RDF Vocabulary Description Language 1.0: RDF Schema, W3C Recommendation, February 10, 2004, Ramanathan V. Guha and Dan Brickley, eds.
• Resource Description Framework (RDF): Concepts and Abstract Syntax, W3C Recommendation, February 10, 2004, Graham Klyne and Jeremy J. Carroll, eds.
• RDF Semantics, W3C Recommendation, February 10, 2004, Patrick Hayes, ed.
• RDF Test Cases, W3C Recommendation, February 10, 2004, Jan Grant and Dave Beckett, eds.
• rdf:PlainLiteral: A Datatype for RDF Plain Literals, W3C Recommendation, October 27, 2009, Jie Bao, Sandro Hawke, Boris Motik, Peter F. Patel-Schneider, and Axel Polleres, eds.
• N-Triples, W3C Working Group Note, April 9, 2013, Gavin Carothers, ed.
• N-Quads, W3C Working Group Note, April 9, 2013, Gavin Carothers, ed.

 Gleaning Resource Descriptions from Dialects of Languages (GRDDL)

• Gleaning Resource Descriptions from Dialects of Languages (GRDDL), W3C Recommendation, September 11, 2007, Dan Connolly ed.
• GRDDL Test Cases, W3C Recommendation, September 11, 2007, Chimezie Ogbuji ed.
• GRDDL Primer, W3C Working Group Note, September 11, 2007, Harry Halpin ed.
• GRDDL Use Cases: Scenarios of extracting RDF data from XML documents, W3C Working Group Note, April 6, 2007 Fabien Gandon ed.

 RDFa in XHTML: Syntax and Processing

• RDFa Core 1.1, W3C Recommendation, June 7, 2012, Ben Adida, Mark Birbeck, Shane McCarron, and Ivan Herman, eds.
• XHTML+RDFa 1.1, W3C Recommendation, June 7, 2012, Shane McCarron, ed.
• RDFa Lite 1.1, W3C Recommendation, June 7, 2012, Manu Sporny, ed.
• RDFa 1.1 Primer, W3C Working Group Note, June 7, 2012, Ben Adida, Ivan Herman, Manu Sporny, and Mark Birbeck, eds.

 RDB2RDF

• A Direct Mapping of Relational Data to RDF, W3C Recommendation, September27, 2012, Marcelo Areanas, Alexandre Bertails, Eric Prud’hommeaux, and Juan Sequeda, eds.
• R2RML: RDB to RDF Mapping Language, W3C Recommendation, September27, 2012, Souripriya Das, Seema Sundara, and Richard Cyganiak, eds.

 Rule Interchange Format (RIF)

• RIF Core Dialect (Second Edition), W3C Recommendation, February 5, 2013, Harold Boley, Michael Kifer, Adrian Paschke, Axel Polleres, Dave Reynolds, and eds.
• RIF Basic Logic Dialect (Second Edition), W3C Recommendation, February 5, 2013, Harold Boley and Michael Kifer, eds.
• RIF Production Rule Dialect (Second Edition), W3C Recommendation, February 5, 2013, Christian de Sainte Marie and Gary Hallmark, eds.
• RIF Framework for Logic Dialects (Second Edition), W3C Recommendation, February 5, 2013, Harold Boley and Michael Kifer, eds.
• RIF Datatypes and Built-Ins 1.0 (Second Edition), W3C Recommendation, February 5, 2013, Axel Polleres, Harold Boley, and Michael Kifer, eds.
• RIF RDF and OWL Compatibility (Second Edition), W3C Recommendation, February 5, 2013, Jos de Bruijn, ed.
• RIF Overview (Second Edition), W3C Working Group Note, February 5, 2013, Harold Boley and Michael Kifer, ed.
• OWL 2 RL in RIF (Second Edition), W3C Working Group Note, February 5, 2013, Dave Reynolds, ed.
• RIF in RDF (Second Edition), W3C Working Group Note, February 5, 2013, Sandro Hawke and Axel Polleres, ed.
• RIF Use Cases and Requirements (Second Edition), W3C Working Group Note, February 5, 2013, Adrian Paschke, Leora Morgenstern, David Hirtle, Alen Ginsberg, Paula-Lavinia Patranjan, and Frank McCabe, ed.
• RIF Test Cases (Second Edition), W3C Working Group Note, February 5, 2013, Stella Mitchell, Leora Morgenstern, and Adrian Paschke, ed.
• RIF Primer (Second Edition), W3C Working Group Note, February 5, 2013, Leora Morgenstern, Chris Welty, Harold Boley, and Gary Hallmark, ed.

 SKOS Simple Knowledge Organization System

• SKOS Simple Knowledge Organization System Reference, W3C Recommendation, August 18, 2009, Alistair Miles and Sean Bechhofer, eds.
• SKOS Simple Knowledge Organization System Primer, W3C Working Group Note, August 18, 2009, Antoine Isaac and Ed Summers, eds.
• SKOS Use Cases and Requirements, W3C Working Group Note, August 18, 2009, Antoine Isaac, Jon Phipp, and Daniel Rubin, eds.

 SPARQL Query Language for RDF

• SPARQL 1.1 Overview, W3C Recommendation, March 21, 2013,
• SPARQL 1.1 Query Language, W3C Recommendation, March 21, 2013, Steve Harris and Andy Seaborne, eds.
• SPARQL 1.1 Update, W3C Recommendation, March 21, 2013, Paul Gearon, Alexandre Passant, and Axel Polleres, eds.
• SPARQL 1.1 Service Description, W3C Recommendation, March 21, 2013, Gregory Todd Williams, ed.
• SPARQL 1.1 Federated Query, W3C Recommendation, March 21, 2013, Eric Prud'hommeaux and Carlos Buil-Aranda, eds.
• SPARQL 1.1 Query Results JSON Format, W3C Recommendation, March 21, 2013, Andy Seaborne, ed.
• SPARQL 1.1 Query Results CSV and TSV Formats, W3C Recommendation, March 21, 2013, Andy Seaborne, ed.
• SPARQL Query Results XML Format (Second Edition), W3C Recommendation, March 21, 2013, Sandro Hawke, ed.
• SPARQL 1.1 Entailment Regimes, W3C Recommendation, March 21, 2013, Birte Glimm and Chimezie Ogbuji, eds.
• SPARQL 1.1 Protocol, W3C Recommendation, March 21, 2013, Lee Feigenbaum and Gregory Todd Williams, eds.
• SPARQL Graph Store HTTP Protocol, W3C Recommendation, March 21, 2013, Chimezie Ogbuji, ed.

 Web Ontology Language (OWL 2)

• OWL 2 Web Ontology Language Document Overview (Second Edition), W3C Recommendation, December 11, 2012,
• OWL 2 Web Ontology Language Structural Specification and Functional-Style Syntax (Second Edition), W3C Recommendation, December 11, 2012, Boris Motik, Peter F. Patel-Schneider, and Bijan Parsia, eds.
• OWL 2 Web Ontology Language Mapping to RDF Graphs (Second Edition), W3C Recommendation, December 11, 2012, Peter F. Patel-Schneider and Boris Motik, eds.
• OWL 2 Web Ontology Language Direct Semantics (Second Edition), W3C Recommendation, December 11, 2012, Boris Motik and Peter F. Patel-Schneider, eds.
• OWL 2 Web Ontology Language RDF-Based Semantics, W3C Recommendation, December 11, 2012, Michael Schneider, ed.
• OWL 2 Web Ontology Language Conformance, W3C Recommendation, December 11, 2012, Michael Smith, Ian Horrock, Markus Krötzsch, and Birte Glimm, eds.
• OWL 2 Web Ontology Language Profiles, W3C Recommendation, December 11, 2012, Boris Motik, Bernardo Cuenca Grau, Ian Horrock, Zhe Wu, Achille Fokoue, and Carsten Lutz, eds.
• OWL 2 Web Ontology Language Primer, W3C Recommendation, December 11, 2012, Pascal Hitzler, Markus Krötzsch, Bijan Parsia, Peter F. Patel-Schneider, and Sebastian Rudolph, eds.
• OWL 2 Web Ontology Language Quick Reference Guide, W3C Recommendation, December 11, 2012, Elisa F. Kendall, Deborah L. McGuinness, and Peter F. Patel-Schneider, eds.
• OWL 2 Web Ontology Language XML Serialization, W3C Recommendation, December 11, 2012, Boris Motik, Bijan Parsia, and Peter F. Patel-Schneider, eds.
• OWL 2 Web Ontology Language Manchester Syntax, W3C Working Group Note, December 11, 2012, Matthew Horridge and Peter F. Patel-Schneider, eds.
• OWL 2 Web Ontology Language Data Range Extension: Linear Equations, W3C Working Group Note, December 11, 2012, Bijan Parsia and Uli Sattler, eds.

 PROV family of documents (PROV)

• PROV-Overview: An Overview of the PROV Family of Documents, W3C Working Group Note, April 30, 2013, Paul Groth and Luc Moreau, eds.
• PROV Model Primer, W3C Working Group Note, April 30, 2013, Yolanda Gil and Simon Miles, eds.
• PROV-O: The PROV Ontology, W3C Recommendation, April 30, 2013, Timothy Lebo, Satya Sahoo, and Deborah McGuinness, eds.
• PROV-DM: The PROV Data Model, W3C Recommendation, April 30, 2013, Luc Moreau and Paolo Missier, eds.
• PROV-N: The Provenance Notation, W3C Recommendation, April 30, 2013, Luc Moreau and Paolo Missier, eds.
• Constraints of the PROV Data Model, W3C Recommendation, April 30, 2013, James Cheney, Paolo Missier, and Luc Moreau, eds.
• PROV-XML: The PROV XML Schema, W3C Working Group Note, April 30, 2013, Hook Hua, Cirt Tilmes, and Stephan Zednik, eds.
• PROV-AQ: Provenance Access and Query, W3C Working Group Note, April 30, 2013, Graham Klyne and Paul Groth, eds.
• PROV-Dictionary: Modeling Provenance for Dictionary Data Structures, W3C Working Group Note, April 30, 2013, Tom De Nies and Sam Coppens, eds.
• Dublin Core to PROV Mapping, W3C Working Group Note, April 30, 2013, Daniel Garijo and Kai Eckert, eds.
• Linking Across Provenance Bundles, W3C Working Group Note, April 30, 2013, Luc Moreau and Timothy Lebo, eds.

 Protocol for Web Description Resources (POWDER)

• Protocol for Web Description Resources (POWDER): Description Resources, W3C Recommendation, September 1, 2009, Phil Archer, Kevin Smith, and Andrea Perego, eds.
• Protocol for Web Description Resources (POWDER): Grouping of Resources, W3C Recommendation, September 1, 2009, Phil Archer, Andrea Perego, and Kevin Smith, eds.
• Protocol for Web Description Resources (POWDER): Formal Semantics, W3C Recommendation, September 1, 2009, Stasinos Konstantopoulos and Phil Archer, eds.
• Protocol for Web Description Resources (POWDER): Primer, W3C Working Group Note, September 1, 2009, Kai Scheppe, ed.
• Protocol for Web Description Resources (POWDER): Test Suite, W3C Working Group Note, September 10, 2009, Antonis Kukurikos and Phil Archer, eds.
• POWDER: Use Cases and Requirements, W3C Working Group Note, June 4, 2009, Phil Archer, ed.

Semantic Web Deployment

• Best Practice Recipes for Publishing RDF Vocabularies, W3C Working Group Note, August 28, 2008, Diego Berrueta and Jon Phipps, eds.
• Defining N-ary Relations on the Semantic Web, W3C Working Group Note, April 12, 2006, Natasha Noy and Alan Rector, eds.
• XML Schema Datatypes in RDF and OWL, W3C Working Group Note, March 14, 2006, Jeremy J. Carroll and Jeff Z. Pan, eds.
• A Survey of RDF/Topic Maps Interoperability Proposals, W3C Working Group Note, March 9, 2006, Steve Pepper, Fabio Vitali, Nicola Gessa, and Valentina Presutti, eds.
• A Semantic Web Primer for Object-Oriented Software Developers, W3C Working Group Note, March 9, 2006, Holger Knublauch, Daniel Oberle, Phil Tetlow, and Evan Wallace, eds.
• Representing Specified Values in OWL: "value partitions" and "value sets", W3C Working Group Note, May 17, 2005, Alan Rector, ed.
• Representing Classes As Property Values on the Semantic Web, W3C Working Group Note, April 5, 2005, Natasha Noy, ed.

Miscellaneous Notes

• HTML Data Guide, W3C Interest Group Note, March 8, 2012, Jeni Tennison, eds.
• Microdata to RDF—Transformation from HTML+Microdata to RDF, W3C Interest Group Note, October 9, 2012, Gregg Kellog, ed.
• Describing Linked Datasets with the VoID Vocabulary, W3C Interest Group Note, March 3, 2011, Keith Alexander, Richard Cyganiak, Michael Hausenblas, and Jun Zhao, eds.
• Cool URIs for the Semantic Web, W3C Interest Group Note, March 31, 2008, Leo Sauermann and Richard Cyganiak, eds.
• LBase: Semantics for Languages of the Semantic Web, W3C Interest Group Note, October 3, 2003, Ramanathan V. Guha and Patrick Hayes, eds.
• An RDF Schema for P3P, W3C Interest Group Note, January 25, 2002, Brian McBride Rigo Wenning, and Lorrie Cranor, eds.
• An RDF Schema for the XML Information Set, W3C Interest Group Note, April 6, 2001, Richard Tobin, ed.
• Harvesting RDF Statements from XLinks, W3C Note, September 29, 2000, Ron Daniel Jr., ed.
• The Cambridge Communiqué, W3C Note, September 29, 2000, Ralph R. Swick and Henry S. Thompson, eds.
• A Discussion of the Relationship Between RDF-Schema and UML, W3C Note, August 4, 1998, Walter W. Chang, ed.

Health Care and Life Science Related Notes

• Semantic Web Applications in Neuromedicine (SWAN) Ontology, W3C Interest Group Note, October 20, 2009, Paolo Ciccarese, ed.
• SIOC, SIOC Types and Health Care and Life Sciences, W3C Interest Group Note, October 20, 2009, Alexandre Passant, ed.
• SWAN/SIOC: Alignment Between the SWAN and SIOC Ontologies, W3C Interest Group Note, October 20, 2009, Alexandre Passant and Paolo Ciccarese, eds.
• A Prototype Knowledge Base for the Life Sciences, W3C Interest Group Note, June 4, 2008, Alan Ruttenberg, Jonathan Rees, Susie Stephens, Matthias Samwald, and Kei-Hoi Cheung, eds.
• Experiences with the conversion of SenseLab databases to RDF/OWL, W3C Interest Group Note, June 4, 2008, Matthias Samwald and Kei-Hoi Cheung, eds.

Incubator Group Reports

• Image Annotation on the Semantic Web, W3C Incubator Group Report, August 14, 2007, Raphaël Troncy, Jacco van Ossenbruggen, Jeff Z. Pan, and Giorgos Stamou, eds.
• W3C Geospatial Vocabulary, W3C Incubator Group Report, October 23, 2007, Raj Singh and Chris Goad, eds.
• Uncertainty Reasoning for the World Wide Web, W3C Incubator Group Report, March 31, 2008, Kenneth J. Laskey, Kathryn B. Laskey, Paulo C. G. Costa, Mieczyslaw M. Kokar, Trevor Martin, and Thomas Lukasiewicz, eds.
• Product Modelling using Semantic Web Technologies, W3C Incubator Group Report, March 31, 2008, Michel Böhms, David Leal, Henson Graves, and Kendall Grant Clark, eds.
• RDB2RDF, W3C Incubator Group Report, January 26, 2009, Ashok Malhotra, ed.
• A Standards-based, Open and Privacy-aware Social Web, W3C Incubator Group Report, December 6, 2010, Harry Halpin, Mischa Tuffield, Daniel Appelquist, Dan Brickley, Melvin Carvahlo, Renato Iannella, Alexandre Passant, Christine Perey, and Henry Story, eds.
• A Provenance XG Final Report, W3C Incubator Group Report, December 14, 2010, Yolanda Gil, James Cheney, Paul Groth, Olaf Hartig, Simon Miles, Luc Moreau, and Paulo Pinheiro da Silva, eds.
• Semantic Sensor Network XG Final Report, W3C Incubator Group Report, June 28, 2011, Laurent Lefort, Cory Henson, and Kerry Taylor, eds.
• Library Linked Data Incubator Group Final Report, W3C Incubator Group Report, October 25, 2011, Thomas Baker, Emmanuelle Bermès, Karen Coyle, Gordon Dunsire, Antoine Isaac, Peter Murray, Jodi Schneider, Ross Singer, Ed Summers, William Waites, and Marcia Zeng, eds.
• Library Linked Data Incubator Group: Use Cases, W3C Incubator Group Report, October 25, 2011, Daniel Vila Suero, ed.
• Library Linked Data Incubator Group: Datasets, Value Vocabularies, and Metadata Element Sets, W3C Incubator Group Report, October 25, 2011, Antoine Isaac, William Waites, Jeff Young, and Marcia Zeng, eds.