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As many people who work in the field will know, the 2007 INSPIRE Directive tasks European Union Member States with harmonizing their spatial and environmental data. The relevant department of the European Commission, the JRC, has lead the definition of a complex data model that is broken down into various themes. Naturally enough, the data […]
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The CSV on the Web Working Group has just published a new set of Working Drafts, which the group considers feature complete and implementable. The drafts are: Model for Tabular Data and Metadata on the Web – an abstract model for tabular data, and how to locate metadata that enables users to better understand what […]
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The RDF Working Group has published today a set of eight Resource Description Framework (RDF)Recommendations: “RDF 1.1 Concepts and Abstract Syntax” defines an abstract syntax (a data model) which serves to link all RDF-based languages and specifications. The abstract syntax has two key data structures: RDF graphs are sets of subject-predicate-object triples, where the elements […]
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The RDF Working Group has published the documents of the RDF 1.1 document suite as Proposed (Edited) Recommendation. Together, these documents provide significant updates and extensions of the 2004 RDF specification. For example: Multiple graphs are now part of the RDF data model. Turtle is included in the standard and is as much as possible […]
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Today the RDF Working Group published three First Public Working Drafts; they are all expected to become W3C Notes: RDF 1.1 Primer, which explains how to use this language for representing information about resources in the World Wide Web. RDF 1.1: On Semantics of RDF Datasets, which presents some issues to be addressed when defining […]
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The RDF Working Group has published a Group Note of RDF 1.1 JSON Alternate Serialization (RDF/JSON). The Resource Description Framework (RDF) is a framework for representing information in the Web. This document defines a textual syntax for RDF called RDF/JSON that allows an RDF graph to be completely written in a form compatible with the JavaScript Object Notation […]
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The RDF Working Group has published two Proposed Recommendations today: JSON-LD 1.0. JSON is a useful data serialization and messaging format. This specification defines JSON-LD, a JSON-based format to serialize Linked Data. The syntax is designed to easily integrate into deployed systems that already use JSON, and provides a smooth upgrade path from JSON to JSON-LD. It […]
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The RDF Working Group today published five Candidate Recommendations for version 1.1 of the Resource Description Framework (RDF), a widespread and stable technology for data interoperability: RDF 1.1 Concepts and Abstract Syntax defines the basics which underly all RDF syntaxes and systems. It provides for general data interoperability. RDF 1.1 Semantics defines the precise semantics of RDF data, supporting […]
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W3C today published the final report of the Workshop on RDF Validation: Practical Assurances for Quality RDF Data that was held 10-11 September 2013 in Cambridge. The goal of the Workshop was to identify use cases, requirements, and candidate technologies to address the need for interface definition and validation for RDF documents and messages. The […]
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The Semantic Web Interest Group has published a new Working Draft of vCard Ontology. The document describes a mapping of the vCard specification (RFC6350) to RDF/OWL. The goal is to promote the use of vCard for the description of people and organizations utilizing semantic web techniques and allowing compatibility with traditional vCard implementations.
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