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<h1>Semantic Web Interest Group Charter</h1>
<p><strong>Note:</strong> This is the charter for the Semantic Web
Interest
Group (formerly the RDF Interest Group). This document supersedes
the
Interest Group's <a href="/2003/12/swa/swig-charter">previous
Charter</a>.</p>
<blockquote> <em>Per section <a href="http://www.w3.org/2005/10/Process-20051014/groups.html#GAGeneral">6
Working Groups, Interest Groups, and Coordination Groups</a>
of the W3C Process, this charter, and any changes to it, take
effect by way of an announcement to the W3C Membership via <a href="http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Member/w3c-ac-members/">w3c-ac-members</a>.</em></blockquote>
<h2>About</h2>
<p>The Semantic Web Interest Group is designed as a forum to support
developers and users of Semantic Web technologies such as RDF,
SPARQL, SKOS and OWL. The
group in particular serves to help developers create vocabularies
and
applications to support a Web data marketplace combining
harvesting,
syndication, metadata and Web Service techniques.</p>
<h2 class="toc">Table of Contents</h2>
<ol>
<li><a href="#Mission">Mission statement</a></li>
<li><a href="#Scope">Scope of the work</a></li>
<li><a href="#Deliverables">Deliverables</a></li>
<li><a href="#Coordination">Coordination with other Activities and
Groups</a></li>
<li><a href="#meetings">Meetings and Discussion fora</a></li>
<li><a href="#membership">Membership</a></li>
<li><a href="#Communications">Communication and Confidentiality</a></li>
<li><a href="#Duration">Duration</a></li>
<li><a href="#Ipr">Intellectual Property Rights (IPR)</a></li>
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<li><a href="#Contact">Contact</a></li>
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<h2><a name="Mission" id="Mission"></a></h2>
<h2>1. Mission statement</h2>
<p>The Semantic Web <a href="http://www.w3.org/2005/10/Process-20051014/groups.html#GroupsIG">Interest
Group</a> is a forum for W3C Members and non-Members to discuss
innovative
Semantic Web applications. The group will focus primarily on
applications of
the W3C Semantic Web technologies (<a href="http://www.w3.org/RDF/">RDF</a>,
<a href="http://www.w3.org/2004/OWL/">OWL</a>, <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/rdf-sparql-query/">SPARQL</a>,
etc), on potential
future work items related to technologies, and the relationship of
that work
to other activities of W3C and to the broader social and legal
context in
which the Web is situated.</p>
<p>The Semantic Web Interest Group hosts discussions of both
architectural/systems issues and application (e.g. <a href="/TandS">T&S</a>)
interests; it is a forum for developers and users
of Semantic Web technology. The group is a continuation of the
earlier RDF
Interest Group and issues addressed previously by the <a href="/PICS">PICS</a>
initiative. initiative. Specifically, the Interest
Group may explore the application of W3C Semantic Web technologies
in the
context of the social, legal, and technological issues surrounding
Internet
content selection, filtering, labelling, signing, quality
assurance etc. Work
items from other fora may be brought to the attention of the
Interest Group
for comment.</p>
<p>An important function of the Interest Group is information
sharing within
and between application communities. Conference announcements and
post-conference reviews to the Interest Group mailing list help
advise W3C
staff and W3C Members, as well as the Semantic Web Community at
large, where
the W3C might most effectively allocate resources.</p>
<h2><a name="Scope" id="Scope"></a>2. Scope of the work</h2>
<p>The Semantic Web Interest Group is designed as a forum to support
developers and users of Semantic Web technologies such as RDF,
SPARQL, and
OWL. The group in particular serves to help developers create
vocabularies
and applications to support a Web data marketplace combining
harvesting,
syndication, metadata and Web Service techniques.</p>
<p>Semantic Web developers are already collaborating on vocabularies
for
areas such as Sitemaps, robots.txt, RSS, Dublin Core, FOAF,
favicon,
relationships between relational databases and RDF, syntactic
inclusion and
association of metadata etc. The Interest Group provides a forum
to support
such collaborative vocabulary development, through the use of
email
discussion, scheduled topical chats (using IRC), Wiki and Weblog
tools.</p>
<h2><a name="Deliverables" id="Deliverables">3. Deliverables</a></h2>
<p>As an Interest Group, the Semantic Web Interest Group does not
develop
specifications or code, and, as a body, it does not have a
specific set of
deliverables. The Interest Group may be asked to review Last Call
Working
Drafts and Proposed Recommendations. The Interest Group may also
make
proposals to other W3C Groups through the W3C Team contact when
there is
evidence of sufficient Member interest in a work item.</p>
<p>The Interest Group may work on (non recommendation-track) <a href="http://www.w3.org/2005/10/Process-20051014/tr.html#Reports">W3C
technical
reports</a>, for publication as 'Interest Group Notes'.</p>
<h2><a name="Coordination" id="Coordination">4. Coordination with
other
Activities and Groups</a></h2>
<p>Informal coordination is done via the Interest Group's mailing
lists. More
formal coordination is done within the Semantic Web Coordination
Group. The
Chair is a member of the <a href="/2001/sw/CG/">W3C Semantic Web
Coordination
Group</a> (W3C <a href="/Member/">member</a> only).</p>
<p>Discussion of Web Service applications and technology is welcome
within
the Semantic Web Interest Group, however detailed collaboration
and design
discussions on the relationship between Semantic Web and Web
Service
technology should be directed to W3C's <a href="http://www.w3.org/2002/ws/swsig/">Semantic
Web Services Interest
Group</a>.</p>
The Semantic Web Interest Group is also a forum where W3C encourages
the
presentation of research work-in-progress. By tracking such work W3C
stays
informed of potential future standardization opportunities. The MIT
<a href="http://dig.csail.mit.edu/">Decentralized Information Group</a>
is one
example of such a research group who we hope will continue to
maintain close
ties with SWIG.
<h2><a id="meetings" name="meetings"></a>5. Meetings and Discussion
fora</h2>
<p>The Interest Group functions primarily through open e-mail
distribution
lists hosted by W3C. The main IG list is
<semantic-web@w3.org>, with a
publicly accessible <a href="http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/semantic-web/">archive</a>.
Other
lists sponsored by the Interest Group include <a href="http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-rdf-logic/"
checked="true">www-rdf-logic</a>,
<a href="http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-rdf-calendar/">www-rdf-calendar</a>,
<a href="http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-sparql-dev/">sparql-dev</a>,
<a href="http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-annotation/">www-annotation</a>,
and <a href="http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-vocabs/">public-vocabs</a>.
The <a href="/2001/sw/interest/">Interest Group</a> home page
provides the
authoritative list of W3C email lists sponsored by the Group.</p>
<p>The Semantic Web Interest Group exists primarily as an online
forum; it
does not typically conduct weekly phone conferences. The Interest
Group may
also conduct virtual meetings using email, IRC, wiki and
teleconference
facilities, although the large scale, International nature of the
group
motivates a focus on low cost, asynchronous mechanisms such as
email. The
Interest Group may on occasion meet or sponsor
"Birds-Of-a-Feather" sessions
at conferences, W3C Technical Plenaries or alongside other W3C
meetings, at
the discretion of the Chair and W3C staff contact.</p>
<p>The Interest Group communicates primarily in English, yet seeks
to serve
an International community. Individuals and groups that can help
support
cross-language discussion and collaboration are particularly
welcome as
participants in the Interest Group.</p>
<h2><a id="membership" name="membership"></a>6. Membership</h2>
<p>Any person interested in the application of or extensions to the
<a href="/RDF">Resource Description Framework</a> is eligible to
participate in
this Interest Group; W3C Membership is not a prerequisite.</p>
<h2><a id="Communications" name="Communications"></a>7.
Communications and
confidentiality</h2>
<p>The Semantic Web Interest Group is a public forum. SW IG mailing
lists and
their archives (primarily <a href="http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/semantic-web/">semantic-web</a>)
are publicly accessible.</p>
<h2><a id="Duration" name="Duration"></a>8. Duration</h2>
<p>The Semantic Web Interest Group is part of the W3C <a href="/2001/sw/">Semantic
Web Activity</a> and is chartered until the end of
the Activity, 28 February 2013.</p>
<h2><a name="Ipr" id="Ipr">9. Intellectual Property Rights (IPR)</a></h2>
<p>The Semantic Web Interest Group provides an opportunity to share
perspectives on Semantic Web technology and applications. W3C
advises that
information shared in the interest group through mailing list and
meetings is
publicly visible. W3C reminds participants to disclose, where
known, the IPR
status of information that they share in the Interest Group
meetings and
materials, in accordance with <a href="/Consortium/Patent-Policy-20030520.html#sec-Disclosure">Section
6</a>
of the W3C Patent Policy.</p>
<h2><a name="Contact" id="Contact">10. Contact</a></h2>
<p>The chair of the Interest Group is <a href="mailto:danbri@danbri.org">Dan
Brickley
<danbri@danbri.org></a>, the W3C Staff Contact is <a href="mailto:ivan@w3.org">Ivan
Herman <ivan@w3.org></a>.</p>
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<address class="contact"> <a href="http://www.w3.org/People/Ivan/">Ivan
Herman</a> <ivan@w3.org>, (W3C) Semantic Web Activity Lead
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