W3C Semantic Web Activity Update
30 November 2004
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)
- 367 member organizations
- Paid staff of 72
- Hundreds of Working Group participants
- About 25 "Activities" (areas of work)
- Celebrating 10th anniversary tomorrow
- consider joining!
- visit w3.org
Semantic Web Activity
- Standards Work
- Education and Outreach
- Ontaria and Ontology Hosting
- Other Software Development
Submissions
Focusing Attention on Possible Precursors to Standards
- SWRL submission acknowledged before last PI mtg
- OWL-S submission acknowledged last week
- Gives wider industry awareness of SWS
- W3C SWS Workshop now planned for 1H05
- Challenge: how to get long-term consensus in SWS?
Working Groups
Forging Industry Consensus -> W3C Recommendations
- RDF Core and WebOnt have been done for almost a year
- Data Access Working Group (DAWG)
- Best Practices and Deployment Working Group
Data Access Working Group (DAWG)
DAWG Questions for You
Should the first version support...
- SOURCE
- disjunction
- optional bindings
See SPARQL draft for details
Best Practices and Deployment
- OEP - Ontology Engineering and Patterns (Chris Welty. Deb McGuinness)
- PORT - Porting Thesaurii to RDF and OWL (Alistair Miles)
- WordNET (Aldo Gangemi)
- VM - Vocabulary Management (Tom Baker)
- XSCH - XML Schema Datatypes (Jeremey Carroll)
- HTML - Embedding RDF in HTML (Ben Adida)
- ADTF - Applications and Demos (Libby Miller, Brian McBride)
- RDFTM - RDF/Topic Maps Interoperability (Steve Pepper)
Best Practices Questions
What else can the WG do to speed deployment?
What are the most effective ways we can engage the user
communities' practical questions?
Outreach: Interest Groups
Building Community
- An umbrella
- Wiki at esw.w3.org
- Mailing lists
- Task forces
- Meetings, workshops possible
Semantic Web Interest Group (SWIG)
http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/interest/
- Replaces "RDF Interest Group"
- Use semantic-web@w3.org now
- IRC channel #swig (irc.freenode.net:6667)
- Others lists: www-rdf-logic, www-rdf-rules, public-rdf-thes, www-rdf-calendar, public-semweb-lifesci, www-annotation
Semantic Web Services Interest Group (SWS-IG)
http://www.w3.org/2002/ws/swsig/
- IRC channel #sws-ig (irc.freenode.net:6667)
- Mailing list: public-sws-ig@w3.org
- Nearly 400 readers
- Low traffic (mostly about OWL-S now)
- Bridge between communities
- ... Use it!
Outreach: Workshops
Mobilizing a Community to Charter New Work
- Life
Sciences Workshop
- Semantic Web Services (SWS) Workshop Planned 1H05
- Rule Language Workshop Planned 1H05
Services: Ontaria
Connecting the Creators and Users of Ontologies
http://www.w3.org/2004/ontaria
- Keyword Search (since September)
- Ontology Views
- Category and Industry trees (coming soon)
- Fast: supports Edit/Reload/Test cycle
- Some inference, with explanations
- Gathers data for usage metrics
Ontology Hosting
Providing Stable Web Space for Ontologies
- Coming Soon
- http://www.w3.org/2004/12/your-name-here
- requires some metadata and licensing
- otherwise lightweight
- Web-Form interface (no human in loop)
- no specific restrictions, no editorial feedback
Other Projects
- Simile: extending DSpace; Libraries and Personal Information Management
- SKOS:bridging to non-OWL classification communities
- Redland: C-based RDF toolkit
- SWED: Sem Web Environmental Directory
Key Points
- Two WGs proceeding; your input is important
- SWS and Rules workshops planned for 1H05
- Ontaria at 0.8. Please try new releases and let us know if
they don't meet your needs
http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/
http://www.w3.org/2004/Talks/1130-swup/
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