W3C Semantic Web Enabling Standards and Technologies
RDF Core
- Implementor feedback points to the need for a number of
fixes, clarifications and improvements to the specification
of RDF's abstract model and XML syntax.
- Also tasked to complete and advance the RDF Schema
Candidate Recommendation.
- Brian McBride
<brian_mcbride@hp.com> HP Labs and Dan Brickley <danbri@w3.org>
(W3C/ILRT) chairs
Web Ontology
- Designed to standardize means for defining ontolgies that
can be used on the Web.
- Builds on RDF Schema (classes and subclasses, properties
and subproperties) to allow more complex relationships
between entities
- Input from the
DAML+OIL work supported by
DARPA's DAML Initiative
- James Hendler
<hendler@cs.umd.edu> chair
