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RDF

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Olaf Hartig
Pierre-Antoine Champin
Gregg Kellogg

RDF 1.2 Semantics

Draft Standard

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Peter Patel-Schneider
Dörthe Arndt
Timothée Haudebourg

RDF 1.2 N-Quads

Draft Standard

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Gregg Kellogg
Dominik Tomaszuk

RDF 1.2 TriG

Draft Standard

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Gregg Kellogg
Dominik Tomaszuk

RDF 1.2 Turtle

Draft Standard

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Gregg Kellogg
Dominik Tomaszuk

RDF 1.2 XML Syntax

Draft Standard

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Gregg Kellogg

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Dave Longley
Gregg Kellogg
Dan Yamamoto

RDF 1.2 N-Triples

Draft Standard

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Gregg Kellogg
Dominik Tomaszuk

RDF 1.2 Schema

Draft Standard

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Dominik Tomaszuk
Timothée Haudebourg

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Guus Schreiber
Yves Raimond
2 translations for RDF 1.1 Primer
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português

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Richard Cyganiak
David Wood
Markus Lanthaler
2 translations for RDF 1.1 Concepts and Abstract Syntax
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日本語

RDF 1.1 N-Quads

Standard

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Gavin Carothers
1 translation for RDF 1.1 N-Quads
日本語

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Gavin Carothers
Andy Seaborne
1 translation for RDF 1.1 N-Triples
日本語

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Patrick Hayes
Peter Patel-Schneider
1 translation for RDF 1.1 Semantics
日本語

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Gregg Kellogg
Markus Lanthaler

RDF 1.1 TriG

Standard

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Gavin Carothers
Andy Seaborne

RDF 1.1 Turtle

Standard

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Eric Prud'hommeaux
Gavin Carothers
1 translation for RDF 1.1 Turtle
日本語

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Fabien Gandon
Guus Schreiber
1 translation for RDF 1.1 XML Syntax
日本語

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Antoine Zimmermann

RDF Schema 1.1

Standard

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Dan Brickley
Ramanathan Guha
3 translations for RDF Schema 1.1
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日本語
português

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David Wood

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Ian Davis
Thomas Steiner
Arnaud Le Hors

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Bernadette Hyland
Ghislain Auguste Atemezing
Michael Pendleton
Biplav Srivastava

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Jie Bao
Sandro Hawke
Boris Motik
Peter Patel-Schneider
Axel Polleres
1 translation for rdf:PlainLiteral: A Datatype for RDF Plain Literals (Second Edition)
日本語

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Diego Berrueta
Jon Phipps
1 translation for Best Practice Recipes for Publishing RDF Vocabularies
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Natasha Noy
Alan Rector
1 translation for Defining N-ary Relations on the Semantic Web
русский

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Holger Knublauch
Daniel Oberle
Philip Tetlow
Evan Wallace
1 translation for A Semantic Web Primer for Object-Oriented Software Developers
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Steve Pepper
Fabio Vitali
Lars Marius Garshol
Nicola Gessa
Valentina Presutti

RDF Primer

Standard

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Frank Manola
Eric Miller
4 translations for RDF Primer
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RDF Semantics

Standard

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Patrick Hayes
2 translations for RDF Semantics
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magyar

RDF Test Cases

Standard

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jan grant
Dave Beckett
2 translations for RDF Test Cases
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magyar

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Graham Klyne
Jeremy Carroll
6 translations for Resource Description Framework (RDF): Concepts and Abstract Syntax
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magyar
日本語
русский
中文(简体)
中文(繁體)

SPARQL

SPARQL 1.2 Update

Draft Standard

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Ruben Taelman
Andy Seaborne
Thomas Pellissier Tanon

SPARQL 1.2 Query Language

Draft Standard

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Olaf Hartig
Andy Seaborne
Ruben Taelman
Gregory Williams
Thomas Pellissier Tanon

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Andy Seaborne
Ruben Taelman
Gregory Williams
Thomas Pellissier Tanon

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Ruben Taelman
Dominik Tomaszuk
Thomas Pellissier Tanon

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Ruben Taelman
Gregory Williams
Thomas Pellissier Tanon

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Ruben Taelman
Gregory Williams

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Andy Seaborne
Thomas Pellissier Tanon

SPARQL 1.2 Protocol

Draft Standard

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Andy Seaborne
Ruben Taelman
Gregory Williams
Thomas Pellissier Tanon

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Ruben Taelman
Gregory Williams

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Peter Patel-Schneider

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Birte Glimm
Chimezie Ogbuji
1 translation for SPARQL 1.1 Entailment Regimes
Ελληνικά

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Eric Prud'hommeaux
Carlos Buil Aranda
2 translations for SPARQL 1.1 Federated Query
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日本語

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Chimezie Ogbuji
1 translation for SPARQL 1.1 Graph Store HTTP Protocol
Ελληνικά

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3 translations for SPARQL 1.1 Overview
Ελληνικά
日本語
中文(简体)

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Lee Feigenbaum
Gregory Williams
Kendall Clark
Elias Torres
2 translations for SPARQL 1.1 Protocol
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日本語

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Steven Harris
Andy Seaborne
2 translations for SPARQL 1.1 Query Language
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日本語

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Andy Seaborne
2 translations for SPARQL 1.1 Query Results CSV and TSV Formats
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日本語

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Andy Seaborne
2 translations for SPARQL 1.1 Query Results JSON Format
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日本語

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Gregory Williams
2 translations for SPARQL 1.1 Service Description
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日本語

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Paula Gearon
Alexandre Passant
Axel Polleres
2 translations for SPARQL 1.1 Update
Ελληνικά
日本語

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Dave Beckett
Jeen Broekstra
2 translations for SPARQL Query Results XML Format (Second Edition)
Ελληνικά
日本語

SPARQL 1.1 Property Paths

Draft Standard

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Andy Seaborne

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Kjetil Kjernsmo
Alexandre Passant

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Kendall Clark
Lee Feigenbaum
Elias Torres
3 translations for SPARQL Protocol for RDF
فارسی
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日本語

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Eric Prud'hommeaux
Andy Seaborne
3 translations for SPARQL Query Language for RDF
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Kendall Clark
Lee Feigenbaum
Elias Torres

Geospatial data

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Payam Barnaghi
Jeremy Tandy
Linda van den Brink
Timo Homburg

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Rob Smith

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JOSEPH ABHAYARATNA
Ed Parsons

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Dmitry Brizhinev
Sam Toyer
Kerry Taylor

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Rob Atkinson

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Frans Knibbe
Alejandro Llaves

Internationalization for Spec Developers

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Richard Ishida
Addison Phillips

DCAT

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Simon Cox
Andrea Perego
Alejandra Gonzalez Beltran
Peter Winstanley
Riccardo Albertoni
David Browning

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Riccardo Albertoni
David Browning
Simon Cox
Alejandra Gonzalez Beltran
Andrea Perego
Peter Winstanley
1 translation for Data Catalog Vocabulary (DCAT) - Version 2
日本語

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Jaroslav Pullmann
Rob Atkinson
Antoine Isaac
Ixchel Faniel

Time Ontology

Time Ontology in OWL

Candidate Standard

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Simon Cox
Chris Little

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Simon Cox
Chris Little

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Simon Cox
Adam Shepherd
Charles Vardeman

Vehicle Signal Service Specification

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Benjamin Klotz
Raphaël Troncy
Daniel Wilms

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Benjamin Klotz
Raphaël Troncy
Daniel Wilms

JSON-LD

JSON-LD 1.1

Standard

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Gregg Kellogg
Pierre-Antoine Champin
Dave Longley
1 translation for JSON-LD 1.1
日本語

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Dave Longley
Gregg Kellogg
Pierre-Antoine Champin
1 translation for JSON-LD 1.1 Framing
日本語

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Gregg Kellogg
Dave Longley
Pierre-Antoine Champin

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Ruben Taelman

Semantic Sensor Network

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Simon Cox

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Armin Haller
Krzysztof Janowicz
Simon Cox
Danh Le Phuoc
Kerry Taylor
Maxime Lefrançois

Dataset exchange

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Nicholas Car

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Lars G. Svensson
Nicholas Car

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Keith Alexander
Richard Cyganiak
Michael Hausenblas
Jun Zhao

ODRL

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Renato Iannella
Serena Villata
1 translation for ODRL Information Model 2.2
日本語

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Renato Iannella
Michael Steidl
Stuart Myles
Víctor Rodríguez-Doncel
1 translation for ODRL Vocabulary & Expression 2.2
日本語

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Michael Steidl
Simon Steyskal
Benedict Whittam Smith

SHACL

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Simon Steyskal
Karen Coyle

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Holger Knublauch
Dimitris Kontokostas

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Holger Knublauch
Dean Allemang
Simon Steyskal

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Holger Knublauch
Pano Maria

Social Web Protocols

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Sarven Capadisli
Amy Guy
1 translation for Linked Data Notifications
日本語

Web Annotations

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Timothy Cole
Sarven Capadisli
Benjamin Young
Ivan Herman

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Ivan Herman
Robert Sanderson
Paolo Ciccarese
Benjamin Young

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Robert Sanderson
Paolo Ciccarese
Benjamin Young
1 translation for Web Annotation Data Model
日本語

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Robert Sanderson
1 translation for Web Annotation Protocol
日本語

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Robert Sanderson
Paolo Ciccarese
Benjamin Young
1 translation for Web Annotation Vocabulary
日本語

EARL

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Michael Squillace
Shadi Abou-Zahra

Data on the Web Best Practices

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Bernadette Farias Loscio
Caroline Burle
Newton Calegari
2 translations for Data on the Web Best Practices
日本語
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Riccardo Albertoni
Antoine Isaac

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Bernadette Farias Loscio
Eric Stephan
Sumit Purohit

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Deirdre Lee
Bernadette Farias Loscio
Phil Archer

Tabular Data

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Jeni Tennison

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Jeremy Tandy
Davide Ceolin
Eric Stephan

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Gregg Kellogg

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Jeremy Tandy
Ivan Herman

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Jeremy Tandy
Ivan Herman
Gregg Kellogg

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Jeni Tennison
Gregg Kellogg

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Jeni Tennison
Gregg Kellogg

Linked Data Platform

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Alexandre Bertails
Pierre-Antoine Champin
Andrei Sambra

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Steve Speicher
John Arwe
Ashok Malhotra

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Nandana Mihindukulasooriya
Roger Menday

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Steve Speicher
John Arwe
Ashok Malhotra
1 translation for Linked Data Platform 1.0
日本語

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Ashok Malhotra

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Cody Burleson
Miguel Esteban Gutiérrez
Nandana Mihindukulasooriya

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Steve Battle
Steve Speicher

RDFa

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Manu Sporny
1 translation for HTML+RDFa 1.1 - Second Edition
日本語

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Ivan Herman
Ben Adida
Manu Sporny
Mark Birbeck

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Ben Adida
Mark Birbeck
Shane McCarron
Ivan Herman
1 translation for RDFa Core 1.1 - Third Edition
日本語

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Manu Sporny
2 translations for RDFa Lite 1.1 - Second Edition
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Shane McCarron
1 translation for XHTML+RDFa 1.1 - Third Edition
日本語

HTML

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Gregg Kellogg

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Jeni Tennison

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Dan Connolly
Lauren Wood

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Stu Weibel

RDF Vocabulary

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Renato Iannella
James McKinney

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Dave Reynolds
3 translations for The Organization Ontology
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Richard Cyganiak
Dave Reynolds
1 translation for The RDF Data Cube Vocabulary
日本語

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Phil Archer
Marios Meimaris
Agis Papantoniou

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Benedikt Kaempgen
Richard Cyganiak

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Michael Hausenblas

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Dan Connolly
Libby Miller

Best Practices for Publishing Linked Data

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Bernadette Hyland
Ghislain Auguste Atemezing
Boris Villazón-Terrazas

ITS

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David Filip
Shaun McCance
David Lewis
Christian Lieske
Arle Lommel
Jirka Kosek
Felix Sasaki
Yves Savourel
1 translation for Internationalization Tag Set (ITS) Version 2.0
日本語

PROV

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James Cheney
Paolo Missier
Luc Moreau

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Luc Moreau
Paolo Missier

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Luc Moreau
Paolo Missier

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Timothy Lebo
Satya Sahoo
Deborah McGuinness
1 translation for PROV-O: The PROV Ontology
日本語

OWL

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Dave Reynolds

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Michael[tm] Smith
Ian Horrocks
Markus Krötzsch
Birte Glimm

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Bijan Parsia
Uli Sattler

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Boris Motik
Peter Patel-Schneider
Bernardo Cuenca Grau

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1 translation for OWL 2 Web Ontology Language Document Overview (Second Edition)
日本語

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Matthew Horridge
Peter Patel-Schneider

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Peter Patel-Schneider
Boris Motik

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Christine Golbreich
Evan Wallace

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Pascal Hitzler
Markus Krötzsch
Bijan Parsia
Peter Patel-Schneider
Sebastian Rudolph

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Boris Motik
Bernardo Cuenca Grau
Ian Horrocks
Zhe Wu
Achille Fokoue

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Jie Bao
Elisa Kendall
Deborah McGuinness
Peter Patel-Schneider

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Michael Schneider

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Boris Motik
Peter Patel-Schneider
Bijan Parsia

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Boris Motik
Bijan Parsia
Peter Patel-Schneider

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Christopher Welty
Deborah McGuinness

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Deborah McGuinness
Frank van Harmelen
8 translations for OWL Web Ontology Language Overview
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magyar
日本語
日本語
русский
中文(简体)
中文(繁體)

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Mike Dean
Guus Schreiber
5 translations for OWL Web Ontology Language Reference
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magyar
日本語
日本語
中文(简体)

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Peter Patel-Schneider
Patrick Hayes
Ian Horrocks
5 translations for OWL Web Ontology Language Semantics and Abstract Syntax
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magyar
日本語
日本語
日本語

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Jeremy Carroll
Jos De Roo
3 translations for OWL Web Ontology Language Test Cases
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magyar
日本語

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Jeff Heflin
4 translations for OWL Web Ontology Language Use Cases and Requirements
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magyar
日本語
русский

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Sean Bechhofer

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Masahiro Hori
Jérôme Euzenat
Peter Patel-Schneider

RIF

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Harold Boley
Michael Kifer

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Harold Boley
Gary Hallmark
Michael Kifer
Adrian Paschke
Axel Polleres
Dave Reynolds

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Jos de Bruijn
Christopher Welty

RDB2RDF

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Marcelo Arenas
Alexandre Bertails
Eric Prud'hommeaux
Juan Sequeda

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Souripriya Das
Seema Sundara
Richard Cyganiak

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Boris Villazón-Terrazas
Michael Hausenblas

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Boris Villazón-Terrazas
Michael Hausenblas

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Eric Prud'hommeaux
Michael Hausenblas

POWDER

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Antonis Kukurikos
Phil Archer

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Phil Archer
Kevin Smith
Andrea Perego

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Stasinos Konstantopoulos
Phil Archer

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Phil Archer
Andrea Perego
Kevin Smith

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Kai Scheppe

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Phil Archer

SKOS

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Antoine Isaac
Ed Summers
3 translations for SKOS Simple Knowledge Organization System Primer
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español
日本語

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Alistair Miles
Sean Bechhofer
3 translations for SKOS Simple Knowledge Organization System Reference
dansk
français
日本語

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Antoine Isaac
Jon Phipps
Daniel Rubin

Web Architecture

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Leo Sauermann
Richard Cyganiak

GRDDL

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Dan Connolly
2 translations for Gleaning Resource Descriptions from Dialects of Languages (GRDDL)
français
日本語

GRDDL Test Cases

Standard

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Chimezie Ogbuji

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Harry Halpin
Ian Davis
1 translation for GRDDL Primer
français

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Fabien Gandon
1 translation for GRDDL Use Cases: Scenarios of extracting RDF data from XML documents
français

XML Schema

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Jeremy Carroll
Jeff Pan

CC/PP

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Graham Klyne
Franklin Reynolds
Christopher Woodrow
Hidetaka Ohto
Johan Hjelm
Mark Butler
Luu Tran
1 translation for Composite Capability/Preference Profiles (CC/PP): Structure and Vocabularies 1.0
français

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Johan Hjelm
Lalitha Suryanarayana

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Franklin Reynolds
Johan Hjelm
Spencer Dawkins
Sandeep Singhal

LBase: Semantics for Languages of the Semantic Web

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Ramanathan Guha
Patrick Hayes

XLink

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Ron Daniel

XML

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Henry Thompson