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W3C RDF and OWL Activities

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RDF and OWL are two important Semantic Web technologies.


The Semantic Web

The Semantic Web is a framework for sharing data between companies, applications, enterprises, communities, and people, independent of platform and software.

RDF and OWL are key Semantic Web technologies.


RDF - Resource Description Framework

RDF is a langauge for describing Web resources, such as the title, author, modification date, content, and copyright information of a Web page.

If you want to learn more about RDF, please visit W3Schools' RDF Tutorial.


OWL - Web Ontology Language

OWL is built on top of RDF, and is a language for processing information on the internet.

If you want to learn more about OWL, please visit W3Schools' RDF Tutorial.


SPARQL - Query Language for RDF

SPARQL offer developers a way to write queries across the wide range of RDF information on the internet.


W3C Specifications and Timeline

Specification Draft / Proposal Recommendation
     
RDF Primer   10. Feb 2004
RDF Test Cases   10. Feb 2004
RDF Concept   10. Feb 2004
RDF Semantics   10. Feb 2004
RDF Schema   10. Feb 2004
RDF Syntax   10. Feb 2004
     
OWL Overview   10. Feb 2004
OWL Guide   10. Feb 2004
OWL Reference   10. Feb 2004
OWL Syntax   10. Feb 2004
OWL Test Cases   10. Feb 2004
OWL Use Cases   10. Feb 2004
Parsing OWL in RDF 21. Jan 2004  
     
SPARQL Requirements 25. Mar 2005  
SPARQL Language   15. Jan 2008
     


W3C Reference

W3C Semantic Web Activity


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