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                     <a href="../history/rif-rdf-owl" title="RIF RDF and OWL Compatibility publication history">2010-06-22</a>
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                  <td>
                     <h4 class="w3c_status_title">
                        <a title="status is REC" href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2010/REC-rif-rdf-owl-20100622/">RIF RDF and OWL Compatibility</a>
                     </h4>
                     <p class="rec_support_data">
                        <a href="http://www.w3.org/2010/rif/translation/rif-rdf-owl">translations</a>
	      &#xB7;
	    <a href="http://www.w3.org/2010/rif/errata">errata</a>
                     </p>
                     <div class="expand_description">
                        <p>A formal specification for how RIF can be used with RDF and OWL, including the semantics of different ways of importing RDF data and OWL ontologies into RIF rule systems.</p>
                     </div>
                  </td>
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                  <td>
                     <a href="../history/owl2-overview" title="OWL 2 Web Ontology Language Document Overview publication history">2009-10-27</a>
                  </td>
                  <td>
                     <h4 class="w3c_status_title">
                        <a title="status is REC" href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/REC-owl2-overview-20091027/">OWL 2 Web Ontology Language Document Overview</a>
                     </h4>
                     <p class="rec_support_data">
                        <a href="http://www.w3.org/2007/OWL/translation/owl2-overview">translations</a>
	      &#xB7;
	    <a href="http://www.w3.org/2007/OWL/errata">errata</a>
                     </p>
                     <div class="expand_description">
                        <p>This document serves as an introduction to OWL 2 and the various
        other OWL 2 documents. It describes the syntaxes for OWL 2, the
        different kinds of semantics, the available profiles (sub-languages),
        and the relationship between OWL 1 and OWL 2.</p>
                     </div>
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                  <td>
                     <a href="../history/owl2-syntax" title="OWL 2 Web Ontology Language Structural Specification and Functional-Style Syntax publication history">2009-10-27</a>
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                  <td>
                     <h4 class="w3c_status_title">
                        <a title="status is REC" href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/REC-owl2-syntax-20091027/">OWL 2 Web Ontology Language Structural Specification and Functional-Style Syntax</a>
                     </h4>
                     <p class="rec_support_data">
                        <a href="http://www.w3.org/2007/OWL/translation/owl2-syntax">translations</a>
	      &#xB7;
	    <a href="http://www.w3.org/2007/OWL/errata">errata</a>
                     </p>
                     <div class="expand_description">
                        <p>The meaningful constructs provided by OWL 2 are defined in terms of
        their structure. As well, a functional-style syntax is defined for
        these constructs, with examples and informal descriptions. One can
        reason with OWL 2 ontologies under either the RDF-Based Semantics or
        the Direct Semantics. If certain restrictions on OWL 2 ontologies are
        satisfied and the ontology is in OWL 2 DL, reasoning under the Direct
        Semantics can be implemented using techniques well known in the
        literature.</p>
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                     <a href="../history/owl2-mapping-to-rdf" title="OWL 2 Web Ontology Language Mapping to RDF Graphs publication history">2009-10-27</a>
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                  <td>
                     <h4 class="w3c_status_title">
                        <a title="status is REC" href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/REC-owl2-mapping-to-rdf-20091027/">OWL 2 Web Ontology Language Mapping to RDF Graphs</a>
                     </h4>
                     <p class="rec_support_data">
                        <a href="http://www.w3.org/2007/OWL/translation/owl2-mapping-to-rdf">translations</a>
	      &#xB7;
	    <a href="http://www.w3.org/2007/OWL/errata">errata</a>
                     </p>
                     <div class="expand_description">
                        <p>This document defines the mapping of OWL 2 ontologies into RDF
        graphs, and vice versa.</p>
                     </div>
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               </tr>
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                  <td>
                     <a href="../history/owl2-direct-semantics" title="OWL 2 Web Ontology Language Direct Semantics publication history">2009-10-27</a>
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                  <td>
                     <h4 class="w3c_status_title">
                        <a title="status is REC" href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/REC-owl2-direct-semantics-20091027/">OWL 2 Web Ontology Language Direct Semantics</a>
                     </h4>
                     <p class="rec_support_data">
                        <a href="http://www.w3.org/2007/OWL/translation/owl2-direct-semantics">translations</a>
	      &#xB7;
	    <a href="http://www.w3.org/2007/OWL/errata">errata</a>
                     </p>
                     <div class="expand_description">
                        <p>This document provides the direct model-theoretic semantics for OWL
        2, which is compatible with the description logic SROIQ. Furthermore,
        this document defines the most common inference problems for OWL 2.</p>
                     </div>
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                  <td>
                     <a href="../history/owl2-rdf-based-semantics" title="OWL 2 Web Ontology Language RDF-Based Semantics publication history">2009-10-27</a>
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                  <td>
                     <h4 class="w3c_status_title">
                        <a title="status is REC" href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/REC-owl2-rdf-based-semantics-20091027/">OWL 2 Web Ontology Language RDF-Based Semantics</a>
                     </h4>
                     <p class="rec_support_data">
                        <a href="http://www.w3.org/2007/OWL/translation/owl2-rdf-based-semantics">translations</a>
	      &#xB7;
	    <a href="http://www.w3.org/2007/OWL/errata">errata</a>
                     </p>
                     <div class="expand_description">
                        <p>This document defines the RDF-compatible model-theoretic semantics
        of OWL 2.</p>
                     </div>
                  </td>
               </tr>
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                  <td>
                     <a href="../history/owl2-conformance" title="OWL 2 Web Ontology Language Conformance publication history">2009-10-27</a>
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                  <td>
                     <h4 class="w3c_status_title">
                        <a title="status is REC" href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/REC-owl2-conformance-20091027/">OWL 2 Web Ontology Language Conformance</a>
                     </h4>
                     <p class="rec_support_data">
                        <a href="http://www.w3.org/2007/OWL/translation/owl2-conformance">translations</a>
	      &#xB7;
	    <a href="http://www.w3.org/2007/OWL/errata">errata</a>
                     </p>
                     <div class="expand_description">
                        <p>This document describes the conditions that OWL 2 tools must satisfy
        in order to be conformant with the language specification. It also
        presents a common format for OWL 2 test cases that both illustrate the
        features of the language and can be used for testing conformance.</p>
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                  <td>
                     <a href="../history/owl2-profiles" title="OWL 2 Web Ontology Language Profiles publication history">2009-10-27</a>
                  </td>
                  <td>
                     <h4 class="w3c_status_title">
                        <a title="status is REC" href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/REC-owl2-profiles-20091027/">OWL 2 Web Ontology Language Profiles</a>
                     </h4>
                     <p class="rec_support_data">
                        <a href="http://www.w3.org/2007/OWL/translation/owl2-profiles">translations</a>
	      &#xB7;
	    <a href="http://www.w3.org/2007/OWL/errata">errata</a>
                     </p>
                     <div class="expand_description">
                        <p>This document provides a specification of several profiles of OWL 2
        which can be more simply and/or efficiently implemented. In logic,
        profiles are often called fragments. Most profiles are defined by
        placing restrictions on the structure of OWL 2 ontologies. These
        restrictions have been specified by modifying the productions of the
        functional-style syntax.</p>
                     </div>
                  </td>
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                  <td>
                     <a href="../history/owl2-primer" title="OWL 2 Web Ontology Language Primer publication history">2009-10-27</a>
                  </td>
                  <td>
                     <h4 class="w3c_status_title">
                        <a title="status is REC" href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/REC-owl2-primer-20091027/">OWL 2 Web Ontology Language Primer</a>
                     </h4>
                     <p class="rec_support_data">
                        <a href="http://www.w3.org/2007/OWL/translation/owl2-primer">translations</a>
	      &#xB7;
	    <a href="http://www.w3.org/2007/OWL/errata">errata</a>
                     </p>
                     <div class="expand_description">
                        <p>This primer provides an approachable introduction to OWL 2,
        including orientation for those coming from other disciplines, a
        running example showing how OWL 2 can be used to represent first simple
        information and then more complex information, how OWL 2 manages
        ontologies, and finally the distinctions between the various
        sublanguages of OWL 2.</p>
                     </div>
                  </td>
               </tr>
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                  <td>
                     <a href="../history/owl2-new-features" title="OWL 2 Web Ontology Language New Features and Rationale publication history">2009-10-27</a>
                  </td>
                  <td>
                     <h4 class="w3c_status_title">
                        <a title="status is REC" href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/REC-owl2-new-features-20091027/">OWL 2 Web Ontology Language New Features and Rationale</a>
                     </h4>
                     <p class="rec_support_data">
                        <a href="http://www.w3.org/2007/OWL/translation/owl2-new-features">translations</a>
	      &#xB7;
	    <a href="http://www.w3.org/2007/OWL/errata">errata</a>
                     </p>
                     <div class="expand_description">
                        <p>This document is a simple introduction to the new features of the
        OWL 2 Web Ontology Language, including an explanation of the
        differences between the initial version of OWL and OWL 2. The document
        also presents the requirements that have motivated the design of the
        main new features, and their rationale from a theoretical and
        implementation perspective.</p>
                     </div>
                  </td>
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                  <td>
                     <a href="../history/owl2-quick-reference" title="OWL 2 Web Ontology Language Quick Reference Guide publication history">2009-10-27</a>
                  </td>
                  <td>
                     <h4 class="w3c_status_title">
                        <a title="status is REC" href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/REC-owl2-quick-reference-20091027/">OWL 2 Web Ontology Language Quick Reference Guide</a>
                     </h4>
                     <p class="rec_support_data">
                        <a href="http://www.w3.org/2007/OWL/translation/owl2-quick-reference">translations</a>
	      &#xB7;
	    <a href="http://www.w3.org/2007/OWL/errata">errata</a>
                     </p>
                     <div class="expand_description">
                        <p>This document provides a non-normative quick reference guide to the
        OWL 2 language. It also provides links to other documents, including
        the OWL 2 Primer for language introduction and examples, the OWL 2
        Structural Specification and Functional Syntax document for more
        details of the functional syntax, and the OWL 2 New Features and
        Rationale document for new feature descriptions.</p>
                     </div>
                  </td>
               </tr>
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                  <td>
                     <a href="../history/owl2-xml-serialization" title="OWL 2 Web Ontology Language XML Serialization publication history">2009-10-27</a>
                  </td>
                  <td>
                     <h4 class="w3c_status_title">
                        <a title="status is REC" href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/REC-owl2-xml-serialization-20091027/">OWL 2 Web Ontology Language XML Serialization</a>
                     </h4>
                     <p class="rec_support_data">
                        <a href="http://www.w3.org/2007/OWL/translation/owl2-xml-serialization">translations</a>
	      &#xB7;
	    <a href="http://www.w3.org/2007/OWL/errata">errata</a>
                     </p>
                     <div class="expand_description">
                        <p>This document specifies an XML serialization for OWL 2 that mirrors
        its structural specification. An XML schema defines this syntax and is
        available as a separate document, as well as being included here.</p>
                     </div>
                  </td>
               </tr>
               <tr>
                  <td>
                     <a href="../history/rdf-plain-literal" title="rdf:PlainLiteral: A Datatype for RDF Plain Literals publication history">2009-10-27</a>
                  </td>
                  <td>
                     <h4 class="w3c_status_title">
                        <a title="status is REC" href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/REC-rdf-plain-literal-20091027/">rdf:PlainLiteral: A Datatype for RDF Plain Literals</a>
                     </h4>
                     <p class="rec_support_data">
                        <a href="http://www.w3.org/2007/OWL/translation/rdf-plain-literal">translations</a>
	      &#xB7;
	    <a href="http://www.w3.org/2007/OWL/errata">errata</a>
                     </p>
                     <div class="expand_description">
                        <p>This document presents the specification of a primitive datatype for
        the plain literals of RDF.</p>
                     </div>
                  </td>
               </tr>
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                  <td>
                     <a href="../history/owl-features" title="OWL Web Ontology Language Overview publication history">2004-02-10</a>
                  </td>
                  <td>
                     <h4 class="w3c_status_title">
                        <a title="status is REC" href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/REC-owl-features-20040210/">OWL Web Ontology Language Overview</a>
                     </h4>
                     <p class="rec_support_data">
                        <a href="http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/RDFCore/translation/owl-features">translations</a>
	      &#xB7;
	    <a href="http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/WebOnt/errata#owl-features">errata</a>
                     </p>
                     <div class="expand_description">
                        <p>Please see the description of the newer, comparable document: "<a title="status is REC" href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/REC-owl2-overview-20091027/" shape="rect">OWL 2 Web
        Ontology Language Document Overview"</a>
                        </p>
                     </div>
                  </td>
               </tr>
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                  <td>
                     <a href="../history/owl-guide" title="OWL Web Ontology Language Guide publication history">2004-02-10</a>
                  </td>
                  <td>
                     <h4 class="w3c_status_title">
                        <a title="status is REC" href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/REC-owl-guide-20040210/">OWL Web Ontology Language Guide</a>
                     </h4>
                     <p class="rec_support_data">
                        <a href="http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/RDFCore/translation/owl-guide">translations</a>
	      &#xB7;
	    <a href="http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/WebOnt/errata#owl-guide">errata</a>
                     </p>
                     <div class="expand_description">
                        <p>Please see the description of the newer, comparable document: "OWL 2
        Web Ontology Language Primer"</p>
                     </div>
                  </td>
               </tr>
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                  <td>
                     <a href="../history/owl-ref" title="OWL Web Ontology Language Reference publication history">2004-02-10</a>
                  </td>
                  <td>
                     <h4 class="w3c_status_title">
                        <a title="status is REC" href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/REC-owl-ref-20040210/">OWL Web Ontology Language Reference</a>
                     </h4>
                     <p class="rec_support_data">
                        <a href="http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/RDFCore/translation/owl-ref">translations</a>
	      &#xB7;
	    <a href="http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/WebOnt/errata#owl-ref">errata</a>
                     </p>
                     <div class="expand_description">
                        <p>This document contains a structured informal description of the full
        set of OWL language constructs and is meant to serve as a reference for
        OWL users who want to construct OWL ontologies. See the newer,
        comparable document: "OWL 2 Web Ontology Language Structural
        Specification and Functional-Style Syntax"</p>
                     </div>
                  </td>
               </tr>
               <tr>
                  <td>
                     <a href="../history/owl-semantics" title="OWL Web Ontology Language Semantics and Abstract Syntax publication history">2004-02-10</a>
                  </td>
                  <td>
                     <h4 class="w3c_status_title">
                        <a title="status is REC" href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/REC-owl-semantics-20040210/">OWL Web Ontology Language Semantics and Abstract Syntax</a>
                     </h4>
                     <p class="rec_support_data">
                        <a href="http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/RDFCore/translation/owl-semantics">translations</a>
	      &#xB7;
	    <a href="http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/WebOnt/errata#owl-semantics">errata</a>
                     </p>
                     <div class="expand_description">
                        <p>See the newer, comparable document: "OWL 2 Web Ontology Language
        Structural Specification and Functional-Style Syntax"</p>
                     </div>
                  </td>
               </tr>
               <tr>
                  <td>
                     <a href="../history/owl-test" title="OWL Web Ontology Language Test Cases publication history">2004-02-10</a>
                  </td>
                  <td>
                     <h4 class="w3c_status_title">
                        <a title="status is REC" href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/REC-owl-test-20040210/">OWL Web Ontology Language Test Cases</a>
                     </h4>
                     <p class="rec_support_data">
                        <a href="http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/RDFCore/translation/owl-test">translations</a>
	      &#xB7;
	    <a href="http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/WebOnt/errata#owl-test">errata</a>
                     </p>
                     <div class="expand_description">
                        <p>See the newer, comparable document: "<a title="status is REC" href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/REC-owl2-conformance-20091027/" shape="rect">OWL 2
        Web Ontology Language Conformance</a>"</p>
                     </div>
                  </td>
               </tr>
               <tr class="lastRow">
                  <td>
                     <a href="../history/webont-req" title="OWL Web Ontology Language Use Cases and Requirements publication history">2004-02-10</a>
                  </td>
                  <td>
                     <h4 class="w3c_status_title">
                        <a title="status is REC" href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/REC-webont-req-20040210/">OWL Web Ontology Language Use Cases and Requirements</a>
                     </h4>
                     <p class="rec_support_data">
                        <a href="http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/RDFCore/translation/webont-req">translations</a>
	      &#xB7;
	    <a href="http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/WebOnt/errata#webont-req">errata</a>
                     </p>
                     <div class="expand_description">
                        <p>See the newer, comparable document: "<a title="status is REC" href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/REC-owl2-conformance-20091027/" shape="rect">OWL 2
        Web Ontology Language New Features and Rationale</a>"</p>
                     </div>
                  </td>
               </tr>
            </tbody>
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      </div>
      <h3 id="notes">Group Notes</h3>
      <div class="data lMargin rMargin">
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               <tr>
                  <td class="table_datecol">
                     <a href="../history/rif-owl-rl" title="OWL 2 RL in RIF publication history">2010-06-22</a>
                  </td>
                  <td>
                     <h4 class="w3c_status_title">
                        <a title="status is NOTE" href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2010/NOTE-rif-owl-rl-20100622/">OWL 2 RL in RIF</a>
                     </h4>
                     <div class="expand_description">
                        <p>A detailed explanation of how to implement OWL 2 RL reasoning using RIF Core.</p>
                     </div>
                  </td>
               </tr>
               <tr>
                  <td>
                     <a href="../history/owl2-manchester-syntax" title="OWL 2 Web Ontology Language Manchester Syntax publication history">2009-10-27</a>
                  </td>
                  <td>
                     <h4 class="w3c_status_title">
                        <a title="status is NOTE" href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/NOTE-owl2-manchester-syntax-20091027/">OWL 2 Web Ontology Language Manchester Syntax</a>
                     </h4>
                     <div class="expand_description">
                        <p>The Manchester syntax is a user-friendly compact syntax for OWL 2
        ontologies; it is frame-based, as opposed to the axiom-based other
        syntaxes for OWL 2. The Manchester Syntax is used in the OWL 2 Primer,
        and this document provides the language used there. It is expected that
        tools will extend the Manchester Syntax for their own purposes, and
        tool builders may collaboratively extend the common language.</p>
                     </div>
                  </td>
               </tr>
               <tr>
                  <td>
                     <a href="../history/owl2-dr-linear" title="OWL 2 Web Ontology Language Data Range Extension: Linear Equations publication history">2009-10-27</a>
                  </td>
                  <td>
                     <h4 class="w3c_status_title">
                        <a title="status is NOTE" href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/NOTE-owl2-dr-linear-20091027/">OWL 2 Web Ontology Language Data Range Extension: Linear Equations</a>
                     </h4>
                     <div class="expand_description">
                        <p>This document specifies a syntax and semantics for incorporating
        linear equations with rational coefficients solved in the reals in OWL
        2.</p>
                     </div>
                  </td>
               </tr>
               <tr>
                  <td>
                     <a href="../history/swbp-n-aryRelations" title="Defining N-ary Relations on the Semantic Web publication history">2006-04-12</a>
                  </td>
                  <td>
                     <h4 class="w3c_status_title">
                        <a title="status is NOTE" href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/NOTE-swbp-n-aryRelations-20060412/">Defining N-ary Relations on the Semantic Web</a>
                     </h4>
                     <div class="expand_description">
                        <p>This document presents ontology patterns for representing n-ary
        relations in RDF and OWL and discusses what users must consider when
        choosing these patterns.</p>
                     </div>
                  </td>
               </tr>
               <tr>
                  <td>
                     <a href="../history/swbp-xsch-datatypes" title="XML Schema Datatypes in RDF and OWL publication history">2006-03-14</a>
                  </td>
                  <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>
                     </div>
                  </td>
               </tr>
               <tr>
                  <td>
                     <a href="../history/swbp-specified-values" title="Representing Specified Values in OWL: &quot;value partitions&quot; and &quot;value sets&quot; publication history">2005-05-17</a>
                  </td>
                  <td>
                     <h4 class="w3c_status_title">
                        <a title="status is NOTE" href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/NOTE-swbp-specified-values-20050517">Representing Specified Values in OWL: "value partitions" and "value sets"</a>
                     </h4>
                     <div class="expand_description">
                        <p>This document describes two methods to represent various descriptive
        "features" (also known variously as "qualities", "attributes" or
        "modifiers") and their specified values: 1) as partitions of classes;
        and 2) as enumerations of individuals. It does not discuss the use of
        datatypes to represent lists of values.</p>
                     </div>
                  </td>
               </tr>
               <tr>
                  <td>
                     <a href="../history/swbp-classes-as-values" title="Representing Classes As Property Values on the Semantic Web publication history">2005-04-05</a>
                  </td>
                  <td>
                     <h4 class="w3c_status_title">
                        <a title="status is NOTE" href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/NOTE-swbp-classes-as-values-20050405">Representing Classes As Property Values on the Semantic Web</a>
                     </h4>
                     <div class="expand_description">
                        <p>This document addresses the issue of using classes as property
        values in OWL and RDF Schema.</p>
                     </div>
                  </td>
               </tr>
               <tr>
                  <td>
                     <a href="../history/owl-parsing" title="OWL Web Ontology Language Parsing OWL in RDF/XML publication history">2004-01-21</a>
                  </td>
                  <td>
                     <h4 class="w3c_status_title">
                        <a title="status is NOTE" href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/NOTE-owl-parsing-20040121">OWL Web Ontology Language Parsing OWL in RDF/XML</a>
                     </h4>
                     <div class="expand_description">
                        <p>See the newer, comparable document: "<a title="status is REC" href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/REC-owl2-xml-serialization-20091027/" shape="rect">OWL
        2 Web Ontology Language Mapping to RDF Graphs</a>".</p>
                     </div>
                  </td>
               </tr>
               <tr>
                  <td>
                     <a href="../history/lbase" title="LBase: Semantics for Languages of the Semantic Web publication history">2003-10-10</a>
                  </td>
                  <td>
                     <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>
                     </div>
                  </td>
               </tr>
               <tr class="lastRow">
                  <td>
                     <a href="../history/owl-xmlsyntax" title="OWL Web Ontology Language XML Presentation Syntax publication history">2003-06-11</a>
                  </td>
                  <td>
                     <h4 class="w3c_status_title">
                        <a title="status is NOTE" href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/NOTE-owl-xmlsyntax-20030611/">OWL Web Ontology Language XML Presentation Syntax</a>
                     </h4>
                     <div class="expand_description">
                        <p>See the newer, comparable document: "<a title="status is REC" href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/REC-owl2-xml-serialization-20091027/" shape="rect">OWL
        2 Web Ontology Language XML Serialization</a>".</p>
                     </div>
                  </td>
               </tr>
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      <h2 id="obsolete">Obsolete Specifications</h2>
      <p>These specifications have either been superseded by others,
      or have been abandoned. They remain available for archival
      purposes, but are not intended to be used.</p>
      <h3 id="retired">
	    Retired
	  </h3>
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                     <a href="../history/owl-time" title="Time Ontology in OWL publication history">2006-09-27</a>
                  </td>
                  <td>
                     <h4 class="w3c_status_title">
                        <a title="status is RETIRED" href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-owl-time-20060927/">Time Ontology in OWL</a>
                     </h4>
                     <div class="expand_description">
                        <p>This document presents an ontology of temporal concepts,
OWL-Time (formerly DAML-Time) [4,10], for describing the temporal content of Web pages
and the temporal properties of Web services. The ontology provides
a vocabulary for expressing facts about topological relations among
instants and intervals, together with information about durations,
and about datetime information. We also demonstrate in detail,
using the Congo.com and Bravo Air examples from OWL-S [11], how this time ontology can be used to support
OWL-S, including use cases for defining input parameters and
(conditional) output parameters. A use case for meeting scheduling
is also shown. In the appendix we also describe a time zone
resource in OWL we developed for not only the US but also the
entire world, including the time zone ontology, the US time zone
instances, and the world time zone instances.<br />
                        </p>
                     </div>
                  </td>
               </tr>
               <tr>
                  <td>
                     <a href="../history/wordnet-rdf" title="RDF/OWL Representation of WordNet publication history">2006-06-19</a>
                  </td>
                  <td>
                     <h4 class="w3c_status_title">
                        <a title="status is RETIRED" href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-wordnet-rdf-20060619/">RDF/OWL Representation of WordNet</a>
                     </h4>
                     <div class="expand_description">
                        <p>This document presents a standard conversion of Princeton
WordNet to RDF/OWL. It describes how it was converted and gives
examples of how it may be queried for use in Semantic Web
applications.</p>
                     </div>
                  </td>
               </tr>
               <tr class="lastRow">
                  <td>
                     <a href="../history/swbp-image-annotation" title="Image Annotation on the Semantic Web publication history">2006-03-22</a>
                  </td>
                  <td>
                     <h4 class="w3c_status_title">
                        <a title="status is RETIRED" href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-swbp-image-annotation-20060322/">Image Annotation on the Semantic Web</a>
                     </h4>
                     <div class="expand_description">
                        <p>
      Many applications that involve multimedia content make use of
      some form of metadata that describe this content.  The goals of
      this document are (i) to explain what the advantages are of
      using Semantic Web languages and technologies for the creation,
      storage, manipulation, interchange and processing of image
      metadata, and (ii) to provide guidelines for doing so. The document
      gives a number of use cases that illustrate ways to exploit
      Semantic Web technologies for image annotation, an overview of RDF
      and OWL vocabularies developed for this task and an overview of
      relevant tools.
    </p>
                        <dl>
                           <dt>Lastest version: </dt>
                           <dd>
     
      http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/mmsem/XGR-image-annotation/</dd>
                           <dt>Previous version:</dt>
                           <dd>
     
      http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-swbp-image-annotation-20060322/</dd>
                        </dl>
                        <p>Copyright &#xA9; 2007 W3C<sup>&#xAE;</sup> (MIT, ERCIM, Keio), All Rights Reserved. W3C liability, trademark and document use rules apply.</p>
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