On the standards track, the base layers of the Semantic Web should be
finalised during 2002: RDF syntax, RDF model, RDF schema, Web Ontology
language. In addition...
- Integration with Web Services and XML technology
 
- Interest Groups: connecting research and Web standardisation communities
 
- SW Advanced Development: targeting research and development, pre-consensus collaborations
 - DARPA DAML initiative, MIT SWAD project (DAML+OIL, WebOnt WG)
 
 - EU IST Semantic Web technologies: SWAD-Europe project (through INRIA)
 
 - Education and outreach, working with QuestionHow, SWAD-Europe, Offices...