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                    <h1 id="title" class="title" property="org:name">W3C Semantic Web Activity</h1>
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                        <li class="toc_prefix">On this page →</li>
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                            <a href="#publs">publications, interviews</a>
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                        <h2>What is the Semantic Web?</h2>
                        <div class="intro">
                            <p property="dc:description" datatype="">The 
                            <strong>Semantic Web</strong>provides a common framework that allows 
                            <strong>data</strong> to be shared and reused across application, enterprise, and
                            community boundaries. It is a collaborative effort led by W3C with participation
                            from a large number of researchers and industrial partners. It is based on the
                            Resource Description Framework (
                            <a href="/RDF/">RDF</a>). See also the separate 
                            <a href="SW-FAQ">FAQ</a> for further information.</p>
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                            <p>The Semantic Web is a web of data. There is lots of data we all use every day,
                            and it is not part of the web. I can see my bank statements on the web, and my
                            photographs, and I can see my appointments in a calendar. But can I see my photos
                            in a calendar to see what I was doing when I took them? Can I see bank statement
                            lines in a calendar?</p>
                            <p>Why not? Because we don't have a web of data. Because data is controlled by
                            applications, and each application keeps it to itself.</p>
                            <p>The Semantic Web is about two things. It is about common formats for
                            integration and combination of data drawn from diverse sources, where on the
                            original Web mainly concentrated on the interchange of documents. It is also
                            about language for recording how the data relates to real world objects. That
                            allows a person, or a machine, to start off in one database, and then move
                            through an unending set of databases which are connected not by wires but by
                            being about the same thing.</p>
                            <p> 
                            See also 
                            <a href="http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/anews/" title="Activity News">the activity
                            news</a> for an account of recent events, publications, etc.
                            For links to tools, books, further details on the technologies, 
                            you can also refer to the 
                            <a href="http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/wiki">Semantic Web Standards Wiki</a>
                            (and you are welcome to modify those pages when necessary and appropriate). 
                            You may also want to look at the collection of 
                            <a href="http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/sweo/public/UseCases/">SW Case Studies and Use
                            Cases</a> to see how organizations are using these technologies today.
                            Finally, for an exhaustive list of all the specifications published by 
                            the activity, please refer to the separate <a href="Specs.html">list
                            of publications</a>.</p>
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                            <h2 id="publs">Publications / Articles / Interviews</h2>
                            <p>The following is a partial list of various publications and or interviews by
                            the W3C Staff that help explain the goals and objectives of the Semantic Web.</p>
                            <ul>
                                <li>
                                <a href="http://semanticweb.com/the-semantic-link-podcast-rss-feed-is-live_b17505">
                                "Semantic Link Podcast Series"</a>, organized by Paul Miller, featuring
                                Andraž Tori, Bernadette Hyland, Christine Connors, Eric Franzon, Eric Hoffer,
                                Ivan Herman, Paul Miller, and Peter Brown.</li>
                                <li>
                                <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KY5skobffk0 ">"Tim Berners-Lee and
                                Tim O'Reilly"</a>, Web 2.0 Summit 09 discussion (October 2009).</li>
                                <li>
                                <a href="http://blip.tv/file/2707910/">Interview with Tim Berners Lee</a> at a
                                technology symposium at the Embassy of Finland in Washington, (October
                                2009).</li>
                                <li>
                                <a href="http://thefigtrees.net/lee/sw/sciam/semantic-web-in-action">The
                                Semantic Web in Action</a>, by Lee Feigenbaum, Ivan Herman, Tonya
                                Hongsermeier, Eric Neumann, and Susie Stephens, Scientific American, 297(6),
                                pp. 90-97, (December 2007).</li>
                                <li>
                                <a href="http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?articleID=00048144-10D2-1C70-84A9809EC588EF21&amp;catID=2">
                                The Semantic Web</a>, Scientific American, May 2001, Tim Berners-Lee, James
                                Hendler and Ora Lassila.</li>
                            </ul>
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                            <h2 id="pres">Presentations</h2>
                            <p>Details of 
                            <a rel="rdfs:seeAlso" href="http://www.w3.org/2007/11/Talks/Semantic_Web.html">
                            recent and upcoming</a> Semantic Web related talks, given by the 
                            <a href="/People/">W3C Staff</a>, the staff of the 
                            <a href="/Consortium/Offices/">W3C Offices</a>, and members of the W3C Working
                            Groups are available separately. A list of 
                            <em>all</em> Semantic Web related talks since 2004 is 
                            <a href="http://w3.org/brief/MjQ3">also available</a>.</p>
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                                <a id="groups">Groups</a>
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                            <p id="forums">The following groups are part of the Semantic Web Activity.</p>
                            <h3 id="agroups">Active Groups</h3>
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                                    <a rel="foaf:homepage" href="http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/CG/"
                                    property="dc:title org:name">Semantic Web Coordination Group</a>
                                </h4>
                                <p property="dc:description" datatype="">The 
                                <a href="/2001/sw/CG/">Semantic Web Coordination Group</a> is tasked to
                                provide a forum for managing the interrelationships and interdependencies
                                among groups focusing on standards and technologies that relate to this goals
                                of the Semantic Web Activity. This group is designed to coordinate,
                                facilitate and (where possible) help shape the efforts of other related
                                groups to avoid duplication of effort and fragmentation of the Semantic Web
                                by way of incompatible standards and technologies.</p>
                            </div>
                            <div id="rdb2rdf" about="[act:#rdb2rdf]" typeof="foaf:Agent dc:Agent">
                                <h4>
                                    <a rel="foaf:homepage" href="http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/rdb2rdf/"
                                    property="dc:title org:name">RDB2RDF Working Group</a>
                                </h4>
                                <p property="dc:description" datatype="">The mission of the 
                                <a href="http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/rdb2rdf/">RDB2RDF Working Group</a> is to
                                standardize a language for mapping relational data and relational database
                                schemas into RDF and OWL, tentatively called the RDB2RDF Mapping Language,
                                R2RML.</p>
                            </div>
                            <div id="rdfa" about="[act:#rdfa]" typeof="foaf:Agent dc:Agent">
                                <h4>
                                    <a rel="foaf:homepage" href="http://www.w3.org/2010/02/rdfa/"
                                    property="dc:title org:name">RDF Web Applications Working Group</a>
                                </h4>
                                <p property="dc:description" datatype="">The mission of the 
                                <a href="http://www.w3.org/2010/02/rdfa/">RDF Web Applications Working
                                Group</a>, formerly known as the W3C RDFa Working Group, is to support the developing
                                use of RDFa for embedding structured data in Web documents in general. The
                                Working Group will publish W3C Recommendations to extend and enhance the
                                currently published RDFa 1.0 documents, including an API. The Working Group
                                will also support the 
                                <a href="http://www.w3.org/html/wg/">HTML Working Group</a> in its work on
                                incorporating RDFa in HTML5 and XHTML5.</p>
                            </div>
                            <div id="rdf-wg" about="[act:#rdf-wg]" typeof="foaf:Agent dc:Agent">
                                <h4>
                                    <a rel="foaf:homepage" href="http://www.w3.org/2011/rdf-wg/"
                                    property="dc:title org:name">RDF Working Group</a>
                                </h4>
                                <p property="dc:description" datatype="">The mission of the 
                                <a href="http://www.w3.org/2011/rdf-wg/">RDF Working Group</a>, is to update
                                the 2004 version of the 
                                <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/REC-rdf-concepts-20040210/">Resource
                                Description Framework (RDF)</a> Recommendation. The scope of work is to extend
                                RDF to include some of the features that the community has identified as both
                                desirable and important for interoperability based on experience with the
                                2004 version of the standard, but without having a negative effect on
                                existing deployment efforts.</p>
                            </div>
                            <div id="sparql" about="[act:#sparql]" typeof="foaf:Agent dc:Agent">
                                <h4>
                                    <a rel="foaf:homepage" href="http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/DataAccess/"
                                    property="dc:title org:name">SPARQL Working Group</a>
                                </h4>
                                <p property="dc:description" datatype="">Formerly known as RDF Data Access
                                Working Group, it developed the SPARQL Query Language recommendation 
                                <a href="http://www.w3.org/blog/SW/2008/01/15/sparql_is_a_recommendation">
                                published in January 2008</a>. The group is currently chartered to make small
                                updates to the SPARQL specification that have been identified as users and
                                implementers as feasible and useful extensions.</p>
                            </div>
                            <div id="prov" about="[act:#prov]" typeof="foaf:Agent dc:Agent">
                                <h4>
                                    <a rel="foaf:homepage" href="http://www.w3.org/2011/prov/"
                                    property="dc:title org:name">Provenance Working Group</a>
                                </h4>
                                <p property="dc:description" datatype="">The mission of the 
                                <a href="http://www.w3.org/2011/prov/">Provenance Working Group</a> is to
                                support the widespread publication and use of provenance information of Web
                                documents, data, and resources. The Working Group will publish W3C
                                Recommendations that define a language for exchanging provenance information
                                among applications.</p>
                            </div>
                            <div id="swig" about="[act:#swig]" typeof="foaf:Agent dc:Agent">
                                <h4>
                                    <a rel="foaf:homepage" href="http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/interest/"
                                    property="dc:title org:name">Semantic Web Interest Group</a>
                                </h4>
                                <p property="dc:description" datatype="">The Semantic Web Interest Group is a
                                forum for W3C Members and non-Members to discuss innovative applications of
                                the Semantic Web. The Interest Group also initiates discussion on potential
                                future work items related to enabling technologies that support the Semantic
                                Web, 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>
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                            <div id="hcls" about="[act:#hcls]" typeof="foaf:Agent dc:Agent">
                                <h4>
                                    <a rel="foaf:homepage" href="http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/hcls/"
                                    property="dc:title org:name">Semantic Web Health Care and Life Sciences
                                    Interest Group</a>
                                </h4>
                                <p property="dc:description" datatype="">The Semantic Web Health Care and
                                Life Sciences Interest Group is designed to improve collaboration, research
                                and development, and innovation adoption in the health care and life science
                                industries. Aiding decision-making in clinical research, Semantic Web
                                technologies will bridge many forms of biological and medical information
                                across institutions.</p>
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                                <a id="completed">Completed Groups</a>
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                            <p>The following groups have completed their deliverables and are no longer
                            expected to hold regular meetings.</p>
                            <div id="owl" about="[act:#owl]" typeof="foaf:Agent dc:Agent">
                                <h4>
                                    <a rel="foaf:homepage" href="http://www.w3.org/2007/OWL/"
                                    property="dc:title org:name">OWL Working Group</a>
                                </h4>
                                <p property="dc:description" datatype="">The mission of the OWL Working
                                Group, is to produce a W3C Recommendation that refines and extends the 2004
                                version of 
                                <a href="/TR/owl-guide/">OWL</a>. The proposed extensions are a small set
                                that: have been identified by users as widely needed, and have been
                                identified by tool implementers as reasonable and feasible extensions to
                                current tools.</p>
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                            <div id="rif" about="[act:#rif]" typeof="foaf:Agent dc:Agent">
                                <h4>
                                    <a rel="foaf:homepage" href="http://www.w3.org/2005/rules/wg/"
                                    property="dc:title org:name">Rules Interchange Format Working Group</a>
                                </h4>
                                <p property="dc:description" datatype="">This Working Group is chartered to
                                produce a core rule language plus extensions which together allow rules to be
                                translated between rule languages and thus transferred between rule systems.
                                The Working Group will have to balance the needs of a community diverse
                                including Business Rules and Semantic users Web specifying extensions for
                                which it can articulate a consensus design and which are sufficiently
                                motivated by use cases.</p>
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                            <h3>
                                <a id="pastGroups">Past Groups</a>
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                            <div id="rdf" about="[act:#rdf]" typeof="foaf:Agent dc:Agent">
                                <h4>
                                    <a rel="foaf:homepage" href="http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/RDFCore/"
                                    property="dc:title org:name">RDF Core Working Group</a>
                                </h4>
                                <p property="dc:description" datatype="">The RDF Core Working Group was 
                                <a href="/2001/sw/RDFCoreWGCharter">chartered</a> to consider update to the
                                RDF Model and Syntax Recommendation, and to a few revisions to the RDF Schema
                                specification.</p>
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                            <div id="webont" about="[act:#webont]" typeof="foaf:Agent dc:Agent">
                                <h4>
                                    <a rel="foaf:homepage" href="http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/WebOnt/"
                                    property="dc:title org:name">Web Ontology Working Group</a>
                                </h4>
                                <p property="dc:description" datatype="">The Web Ontology Working Group was 
                                <a href="/2001/sw/WebOnt/charter">chartered</a> to build upon the RDF Core
                                work a language for defining structured web based ontologies which will
                                provide richer integration and interoperability of data among descriptive
                                communities.</p>
                            </div>
                            <div id="swd" about="[act:#swd]" typeof="foaf:Agent dc:Agent">
                                <h4>
                                    <a rel="foaf:homepage" href="http://www.w3.org/2006/07/SWD/"
                                    property="dc:title org:name">Semantic Web Deployment Working Group</a>
                                </h4>
                                <p property="dc:description" datatype="">The mission of this Working Group is
                                to provide guidance in the form of W3C Technical Reports on issues of
                                practical RDF development and deployment practices in the areas of publishing
                                vocabularies, OWL usage, and integrating RDF with HTML documents.</p>
                                <p>This group is also responsible for the development of the 
                                <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/rdfa-syntax">RDFa</a> and 
                                <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/skos-reference">SKOS</a> specifications.</p>
                            </div>
                            <div id="swbpd" about="[act:#swbpd]" typeof="foaf:Agent dc:Agent">
                                <h4>
                                    <a rel="foaf:homepage" href="http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/BestPractices/"
                                    property="dc:title org:name">Semantic Web Best Practices and Deployment
                                    Working Group</a>
                                </h4>
                                <p property="dc:description" datatype="">The focus of the 
                                <a href="/2001/sw/BestPractices/">Semantic Web Best Practices and Deployment
                                Working Group</a> was to provide hands-on support for developers of Semantic
                                Web applications.</p>
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                            <div id="sweo" about="[act:#sweo]" typeof="foaf:Agent dc:Agent">
                                <h4>
                                    <a rel="foaf:homepage" href="http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/sweo/"
                                    property="dc:title org:name">Semantic Web Education and Outreach Interest
                                    Group</a>
                                </h4>
                                <p property="dc:description" datatype="">The Semantic Web Education and
                                Outreach Interest Group (SWEO) was chartered to collect proof-of-concept
                                business cases, demonstration prototypes, etc, based on successful
                                implementations of Semantic Web technologies, collect user experiences,
                                develop and facilitate community outreach strategies, training and
                                educational resources.</p>
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                            <div id="powder" about="[act:#powder]" typeof="foaf:Agent dc:Agent">
                                <h4>
                                    <a rel="foaf:homepage" href="http://www.w3.org/2007/powder/"
                                    property="dc:title org:name">POWDER Working Group</a>
                                </h4>
                                <p property="dc:description" datatype="">The mission of the Protocol for Web
                                Description Resources (POWDER) Working Group is to develop a mechanism
                                through which structured metadata ("Description Resources") can be
                                authenticated and applied to groups of Web resources. This mechanism will
                                allow retrieval of the description resources without retrieval of the
                                resources they describe.</p>
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                            <div id="grddl" about="[act:#grddl]" typeof="foaf:Agent dc:Agent">
                                <h4>
                                    <a rel="foaf:homepage" href="http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/grddl-wg/"
                                    property="dc:title org:name">GRDDL Working Group</a>
                                </h4>
                                <p property="dc:description" datatype="">The mission of this Working Group
                                was to complement the concrete RDF/XML syntax with a mechanism to relate
                                other XML syntaxes (especially XHTML dialects or "microformats") to the RDF
                                abstract syntax via transformations identified by URIs.</p>
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