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               <h1 class="title">RDF Current Status</h1>
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      <p id="w3c_toggle_include" class="default_open intro tPadding">This page summarizes the relationships among specifications, whether they are finished standards or drafts. Below, each title
links to the most recent version of a document.
     For related introductory information, see: <a href="http://www.w3.org/standards/semanticweb/inference">Inference</a>, <a href="http://www.w3.org/standards/semanticweb/data">Linked Data</a>, <a href="http://www.w3.org/standards/webarch/metaformats">Meta Formats</a>, <a href="http://www.w3.org/standards/semanticweb/ontology">Vocabularies</a>.</p>
      <h2 id="completed">Completed Work</h2>
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         <a href="/TR/tr-technology-stds">W3C Recommendations</a> have
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         <a href="/2005/10/Process-20051014/tr.html#q75">Group Notes</a> are <em>not</em> standards and do not
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      <h3 id="stds">Standards</h3>
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                     <a href="../history/rdf-concepts" title="Resource Description Framework (RDF): Concepts and Abstract Syntax publication history">2004-02-10</a>
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                  <td>
                     <h4 class="w3c_status_title">
                        <a title="status is REC" href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/REC-rdf-concepts-20040210/">Resource Description Framework (RDF): Concepts and Abstract Syntax</a>
                     </h4>
                     <p class="rec_support_data">
                        <a href="http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/RDFCore/translation/rdf-concepts">translations</a>
	      &#xB7;
	    <a href="http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/RDFCore/errata#rdf-concepts">errata</a>
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                        <p>The Resource Description Framework (RDF) is a framework for representing information in the Web.</p>
                        <p>RDF Concepts and Abstract Syntax defines an abstract syntax on which RDF is based, and which serves to link its concrete syntax to its formal semantics. It also includes discussion of design goals, key concepts, datatyping, character normalization and handling of URI references.</p>
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                  <td>
                     <a href="../history/rdf-mt" title="RDF Semantics publication history">2004-02-10</a>
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                     <h4 class="w3c_status_title">
                        <a title="status is REC" href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/REC-rdf-mt-20040210/">RDF Semantics</a>
                     </h4>
                     <p class="rec_support_data">
                        <a href="http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/RDFCore/translation/rdf-mt">translations</a>
	      &#xB7;
	    <a href="http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/RDFCore/errata#rdf-mt">errata</a>
                     </p>
                     <div class="expand_description">
                        <p>This is a specification of a precise semantics, and corresponding complete systems of inference rules, for the Resource Description Framework (RDF) and RDF Schema (RDFS).</p>
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                     <a href="../history/rdf-primer" title="RDF Primer publication history">2004-02-10</a>
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                     <h4 class="w3c_status_title">
                        <a title="status is REC" href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/REC-rdf-primer-20040210/">RDF Primer</a>
                     </h4>
                     <p class="rec_support_data">
                        <a href="http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/RDFCore/translation/rdf-primer">translations</a>
	      &#xB7;
	    <a href="http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/RDFCore/errata#rdf-primer">errata</a>
                     </p>
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                        <p>The Resource Description Framework (RDF) is a language for representing information about resources in the World Wide Web. This Primer is designed to provide the reader with the basic knowledge required to effectively use RDF. It introduces the basic concepts of RDF and describes its XML syntax. It describes how to define RDF vocabularies using the RDF Vocabulary Description Language, and gives an overview of some deployed RDF applications. It also describes the content and purpose of other RDF specification documents.</p>
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                     <a href="../history/rdf-schema" title="RDF Vocabulary Description Language 1.0: RDF Schema publication history">2004-02-10</a>
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                     <h4 class="w3c_status_title">
                        <a title="status is REC" href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/REC-rdf-schema-20040210/">RDF Vocabulary Description Language 1.0: RDF Schema</a>
                     </h4>
                     <p class="rec_support_data">
                        <a href="http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/RDFCore/translation/rdf-schema">translations</a>
	      &#xB7;
	    <a href="http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/RDFCore/errata#rdf-schema">errata</a>
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                        <p>The Resource Description Framework (RDF) is a general-purpose language for representing information in the Web. This specification describes how to use RDF to describe RDF vocabularies. This specification defines a vocabulary for this purpose and defines other built-in RDF vocabulary initially specified in the <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/REC-rdf-concepts-20040210/" shape="rect">RDF Model and Syntax Specification</a>.</p>
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                     <a href="../history/rdf-syntax-grammar" title="RDF/XML Syntax Specification (Revised) publication history">2004-02-10</a>
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                     <h4 class="w3c_status_title">
                        <a title="status is REC" href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/REC-rdf-syntax-grammar-20040210/">RDF/XML Syntax Specification (Revised)</a>
                     </h4>
                     <p class="rec_support_data">
                        <a href="http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/RDFCore/translation/rdf-syntax-grammar">translations</a>
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	    <a href="http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/RDFCore/errata#rdf-syntax-grammar">errata</a>
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                        <p>This document defines an XML syntax for RDF called RDF/XML in terms of <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/1999/REC-xml-names-19990114/" shape="rect">Namespaces in XML</a>, the <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/REC-xml-infoset-20011024/" shape="rect">XML Information Set</a> and <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/REC-xmlbase-20010627/" shape="rect">XML Base</a>. The formal grammar for the syntax is annotated with actions generating triples of the RDF graph as defined in <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/REC-rdf-concepts-20040210/" shape="rect">RDF Concepts and Abstract Syntax</a>.</p>
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                     <a href="../history/rdf-testcases" title="RDF Test Cases publication history">2004-02-10</a>
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                     <h4 class="w3c_status_title">
                        <a title="status is REC" href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/REC-rdf-testcases-20040210/">RDF Test Cases</a>
                     </h4>
                     <p class="rec_support_data">
                        <a href="http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/RDFCore/translation/rdf-testcases">translations</a>
	      &#xB7;
	    <a href="http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/RDFCore/errata#rdf-testcases">errata</a>
                     </p>
                     <div class="expand_description">
                        <p>This document describes the RDF Test Cases deliverable for the <a href="http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/RDFCore/" shape="rect">RDF Core Working Group</a>.</p>
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      <h3 id="notes">Group Notes</h3>
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                     <a href="../history/void" title="Describing Linked Datasets with the VoID Vocabulary publication history">2011-03-03</a>
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                     <h4 class="w3c_status_title">
                        <a title="status is NOTE" href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2011/NOTE-void-20110303/">Describing Linked Datasets with the VoID Vocabulary</a>
                     </h4>
                     <div class="expand_description">
                        <p>
VoID is an RDF Schema vocabulary for expressing metadata about RDF  
datasets. It is intended as a bridge between the publishers and  
users of RDF data, with applications ranging from data discovery to  
cataloging and archiving of datasets. This document is a detailed  
guide to the VoID vocabulary. It describes how VoID can be used to  
express general metadata based on Dublin Core, access metadata,  
structural metadata, and links between datasets. It also provides  
deployment advice and discusses the discovery of VoID descriptions.
   </p>
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                     <a href="../history/swbp-xsch-datatypes" title="XML Schema Datatypes in RDF and OWL publication history">2006-03-14</a>
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                  <td>
                     <h4 class="w3c_status_title">
                        <a title="status is NOTE" href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/NOTE-swbp-xsch-datatypes-20060314/">XML Schema Datatypes in RDF and OWL</a>
                     </h4>
                     <div class="expand_description">
                        <p>This document addresses three questions left unanswered by these
        Recommendations: Which URIref should be used to refer to a user defined
        datatype? Which values of which XML Schema simple types are the same?
        How to use the problematic xsd:duration in RDF and OWL? In addition, we
        further describe how to integrate OWL DL with user defined datatypes</p>
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                     <a href="../history/lbase" title="LBase: Semantics for Languages of the Semantic Web publication history">2003-10-10</a>
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                     <h4 class="w3c_status_title">
                        <a title="status is NOTE" href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/NOTE-lbase-20031010/">LBase: Semantics for Languages of the Semantic Web</a>
                     </h4>
                     <div class="expand_description">
                        <p>This document describes a mechanism for providing a precise
        semantics for the Semantic Web Languages (referred to as SWELs from now
        on. The purpose of this is to define clearly the consequences and
        allowed inferences from constructs in these languages.</p>
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      <h2 id="drafts">Drafts</h2>
      <p>Below are draft documents:
      <a href="/2005/10/Process-20051014/tr.html#RecsWD">other Working Drafts</a>.
      Some of these may become Web Standards through the <a href="/Consortium/Process/tr#rec-advance">W3C Recommendation Track
      process</a>. Others may be published as Group Notes or
      become obsolete specifications.</p>
      <h3 id="wd">Other Working Drafts</h3>
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                     <a href="../history/microdata-rdf" title="Microdata to RDF publication history">2012-01-12</a>
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                     <h4 class="w3c_status_title">
                        <a title="status is WD" href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/WD-microdata-rdf-20120112/">Microdata to RDF</a>
                     </h4>
                     <div class="expand_description">
                        <p>HTML microdata [MICRODATA] is an extension to HTML used to embed 
  machine-readable data into HTML documents. Whereas the microdata 
  specification describes a means of markup, the output format is 
  JSON. This specification describes processing rules that may be 
  used to extract RDF [RDF-CONCEPTS] from an HTML document containing 
  microdata.</p>
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                     <a href="../history/rdf11-concepts" title="RDF 1.1 Concepts and Abstract Syntax publication history">2011-08-30</a>
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                  <td>
                     <h4 class="w3c_status_title">
                        <a title="status is WD" href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2011/WD-rdf11-concepts-20110830/">RDF 1.1 Concepts and Abstract Syntax</a>
                     </h4>
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                        <p>
This document is work in progress towards a revision of the RDF Concepts and Abstract Syntax Recommendation, and is intended to eventually replace that document. It is part of a larger effort to revise the RDF specifications as published in 2004. The most significant changes from the 2004 edition are: modified string literals, a section on skolemization of blank nodes, and many updated references to other specifications (including a change in terminology from &#x201C;URI references&#x201D; to &#x201C;IRIs&#x201D;). A fuller list of changes that have been made to date is provided in Appendix A. Various areas of work to be tackled in upcoming working drafts are highlighted throughout the document, but should not yet be understood as an exhaustive list.
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                     <a href="../history/turtle" title="Turtle publication history">2011-08-09</a>
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                     <h4 class="w3c_status_title">
                        <a title="status is WD" href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2011/WD-turtle-20110809/">Turtle</a>
                     </h4>
                     <div class="expand_description">
                        <p>
The Resource Description Framework (RDF) is a general-purpose language
for representing information in the Web.
  </p>
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                     <a href="../history/rdf-interfaces" title="RDF Interfaces 1.0 publication history">2011-05-10</a>
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                  <td>
                     <h4 class="w3c_status_title">
                        <a title="status is WD" href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2011/WD-rdf-interfaces-20110510/">RDF Interfaces 1.0</a>
                     </h4>
                     <div class="expand_description">
                        <p>This is a sample short description for this specification;
	      over time we will replace this description with a real one.</p>
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