W3C Semantic Web Best Practices and Deployment Working Group (original) (raw)
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The aim of this Semantic Web Best Practices and Deployment (SWBPD) Working Group is to provide hands-on support for developers of Semantic Web applications. With the publication of the revised RDF and the new OWL specification we expect a large number of new application developers. Some evidence of this could be seen at the last International Semantic Web Conference in Florida, which featured a wide range of applications, including 10 submissions to the Semantic Web Challenge. This working group will help application developers by providing them with "best practices" in various forms, ranging from engineering guidelines, ontology / vocabulary repositories to educational material and demo applications.
The group maintains a list of Semantic Web applications and demos for promoting the Semantic Web and for use by developers. More information about the rules for inclusion and how to get your application in the list is available.
Current Events/Documents
- The Working Group has completed its primary deliverables and is closed effective 29 September 2006; seethank you message on behalf of the W3C Director. The Semantic Web Deployment Working Group,Semantic Web Education and Outreach Interest Group, and Multimedia Semantics Incubator Group have charters to take further steps in some of the areas undertaken by the SWBPD Working Group.
Best Practice and Deployment Documents
When a document is published, it will contain information on where feedback should be sent. Public comments on the work of this Working Group may be sent to the WG mailing list, public-swbp-wg@w3.org. Please start the subject line of such a message with the string "comment:".
This area to grow as the Working Group produces documents.
Working Group Notes
- Defining N-ary Relations on the Semantic Web: Use With Individuals
W3C Working Group Note 12 April 2006, Noy and Rector (eds.) - Representing Classes As Property Values on the Semantic Web
W3C Working Group Note 5 April 2005, Noy (ed.) - Representing Specified Values in OWL: "value partitions" and "value sets"
W3C Working Group Note 17 May 2005, Rector (ed.) - A Semantic Web Primer for Object-Oriented Software Developers
W3C Working Group Note 9 March 2006, Knublauch, Oberle, Tetlow, Wallace (eds.) - A Survey of RDF/Topic Maps Interoperability Proposals
W3C Working Group Note 10 February 2006, Pepper, Vitali, Garshol, Gessa, Presutti (eds.) - XML Schema Datatypes in RDF and OWL
W3C Working Group Note 14 March 2006, Carroll, Pan (eds.)
Working Drafts
- Best Practice Recipes for Publishing RDF Vocabularies
W3C Working Draft 14 March 2006, Miles, Baker, Swick (eds.)
[editors' draft] - Image Annotation on the Semantic Web
W3C Working Draft 22 March 2006, van Ossenbruggen, Troncy, Stamou, Pan (eds.)
[editors' draft] - RDF/A Primer 1.0; Embedding RDF in XHTML
W3C Working Draft 10 March 2006, Adida, Birbeck (eds.)
[editors' draft] - RDF/OWL Representation of WordNet
W3C Working Draft 19 June 2006, van Assem, Gangemi, Schreiber (eds.)
[editors' draft] - SKOS Core Vocabulary Specification
W3C Working Draft 2 November 2005, Miles, Brickley (eds.)
[editors' draft] - SKOS Core Guide
W3C Working Draft 2 November 2005, Miles, Brickley (eds.)
[editors' draft] - Quick Guide to Publishing a Thesaurus on the Semantic Web
W3C Working Draft 17 May 2005, Miles (ed.)
[editor's draft] - Time Ontology in OWL
W3C Working Draft 27 September 2006, Hobbs, Pan (eds.)
[editors' draft]
Indexes and Collections
A weblog for the SWAD-Europe project, tracking work in progress and events and items of interest, including a list of applications and demos.
DOAP (Description of a Project) Bulletin Board
A place to link DOAP Descriptions for applications and demos that themselves concern the Semantic Web.
A collection of Semantic Web tutorial resources.
Other Editor's Drafts
Ontology Engineering Patterns
- Simple part-whole relations in OWL Ontologies, Rector, Welty (eds.)
Porting Thesauri
RDF in XHTML
- RDF/A Syntax; A collection of attributes for layering RDF on XML languages, Birbeck, Pemberton, Adida (eds.)
- CURIE Syntax 1.0; A compact syntax for expressing URIs, Birbeck (ed.)
- Gleaning Resource Descriptions from Dialects of Languages (GRDDL), Hazaël-Massieux, Connolly (eds.)
RDF/Topic Maps Interoperability
Software Engineering
- Ontology Driven Architectures and Potential Uses of the Semantic Web in Software Engineering, Tetlow, Pan, Oberle, Wallace, Uschold, Kendall (eds.)
Vocabulary Management
- Managing a Vocabulary for the Semantic Web, Baker (ed.) [work suspended]
WordNet
- OntoWordNet; an OWL ontology, Gangemi
- WordNet datamodel, Gangemi
- MILE schema for lexical entries, Gangemi
- Porting Wordnets to the Semantic Web, Gangemi (ed.)
- Wordnet in RDFS and OWL, Carroll, Pan (eds.)
note: W3C manual of style,Style for Group-internal Drafts,pubrules checker,spec-prod
Task Forces
The following task forces are in progress:
ADTF - Applications and Demos
description |search archive
Coordinators: Libby Miller, Brian McBride
Nearby: SWAD-Europe Applications and Demos Weblog
HTML - Embedding RDF in HTML
description | archives
Coordinator: Ben Adida
MM - Multimedia Annotation
description |search archive
Coordinators: Giorgos Stamou, Jacco van Ossenbruggen, Jeff Z. Pan
OEP - Ontology Engineering and Patterns
description |search archive
Coordinators: Chris Welty and Deb McGuinness
PORT - Porting Thesaurii to RDF and OWL
description |TF archive |search WG archive
Coordinator: Alistair Miles
RDFTM - RDF/Topic Maps Interoperability
description |search archive
Coordinator: Steve Pepper
SE - Software Engineering
description |search archive
Coordinator: Phil Tetlow & Jeff Z. Pan
VM - Vocabulary Management
description |search archive
Coordinator: Tom Baker
WordNET
description |search archive
Coordinator: Aldo Gangemi
The following task forces have completed their deliverable(s) and are no longer convening:
XSCH - XML Schema Datatypes
description |search archive
Coordinator: Jeremey Carroll & (open - XML Schema WG)
The following task forces are on hold:
WRLD - World View
description |search archive
Coordinator: Jim Hendler
Other task forces that have expressions of interest from WG members include:
- Links to MPEG
- Style conventions (naming, namespaces, uri, rdf:label usage)
- Tools index
- Ontology Design Issues
- Units and measures
Schedule/Milestones
initially from the charter; changes to be negotiated with the relevant parties via the SemWeb CG:
This Working Group is chartered for a duration of 20 months, through 31 January 2006. The kick-off meeting was held on March 4-5 2004 at the W3C Tech Plenary in Cannes.
The Working Group will initiate task forces for producing Working Group notes. These task forces will typically operate in the following way:
- The time frame of a task force is short-term, e.g. 4 (2-6) months
- The editors/coordinators of a task force are selected from the Working Group participants.
- A task force may recommend non-Member individuals with relevant skills to participate in the task force as invited experts. The normal invited expert process will be followed. Final decision on any task force issue rests with the whole Working Group.
- The task force size should be 4-8 people
- Task forces use the regular Working Group communication channels.
- The result of this work is proposed to the full Working Group for consideration and discussion on next steps.
Membership
To join this working group, review the charter etc.and have your Advisory Committee representative nominate you using the form from the CFP(member-confidential). If you are not affiliated with a W3C member organization but you feel you have expertise not currently represented in the group that you would like to contribute, contact the chairs.
Then, if you like, introduce yourself to the group with a short bio and and what you have to contribute, as well as what you hope to get from the group.
As of 2006-07-11T13:14:41Z the following participation appointments have been received from the respective Advisory Committee representatives:
| Responder | Selected representative |
|---|---|
| Mondeca | Bernard Vatant |
| Hewlett Packard Company | Brian McBride, Jeremy Carroll, David Booth |
| Agfa-Gevaert N. V. | Jos De Roo |
| Center for Mathematics and Computer Science (CWI) | Jacco van Ossenbruggen, Raphael Troncy |
| CNR--Instituto Elaborazione dell'Informazione | Aldo Gangemi, Nicola Guarino |
| Maryland Information and Network Dynamics Lab at the University of Maryland | Christian Halaschek-Wiener, David Wood |
| Stanford University | Deborah McGuinness, Natasha Noy |
| Bristol, University of | |
| Asemantics S.R.L. | Libby Miller |
| International Webmasters Association / HTML Writers Guild (IWA-HWG) | Pasquale Popolizio |
| Vodafone Group Services Limited | |
| Athena Information Technology (AIT) | Thanassis Tiropanis |
| Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique | Fabien Gandon, Benjamin Nguyen |
| Ibrow | Guus Schreiber (co-Chair) |
| Council for the Central Laboratory of the Research Councils (CCL) | Alistair Miles |
| Fraunhofer Gesellschaft | |
| America Online (AOL) | |
| National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) | Evan Wallace |
| Southampton, University of | Nicholas Gibbins |
| Boeing Company | Michael Uschold |
| W3C Team | Ralph Swick (Team contact) |
| Network Inference | Gary Ng, Jeff Pollock |
| Free University of Bozen-Bolzano | Enrico Franconi, Sergio Tessaris |
| Creative Commons | Ben Adida |
| (invited expert) | Patrick Hayes |
| Digital Enterprise Research Institute | Andreas Harth |
| Ontopia SA | Steve Pepper, Lars Marius Garshol |
| T-Online | |
| McDonald Bradley | Darren Govoni |
| IBM | Grady Booch, Philip Tetlow, Elias Torres, Chris Welty |
| University of Manchester | Alan Rector, Holger Knublauch |
| University of Bologna | Nicola Gessa, Marco Pirruccio, Valentina Presutti, Fabio Vitali |
| Internet Association Japan | Noboru Shimizu |
| Adobe Systems | |
| FZI | Daniel Oberle |
| Sandpiper Software, Inc. | Elisa Kendall |
| France Telecom | Alain Leger, Marco Nanni |
| USC/ISI | Jerry Hobbs, Feng Pan |
| IVML, National Technical University of Athens | Nikolaos Simou, Giorgos Stamou, Giorgos Stoilos, Vassilis Tzouvaras |
| Institut fuer wissenschaftliche Information | Thomas Baker |
| FSTC | Rachel Yager |
| CDAC | v n shukla |
| Vrije Universiteit | Mark van Assem |
| Language and Computing, nv | Christoffel Dhaen |
| University of Aberdeen, Computing Science | Jeff Pan |
| (invited expert) | Chris Menzel |
| IIT, NCSR | Vangelis Karkaletsis, Pantelis Nasikas, Konstantinos Stamatakis |
| Chinese Academy of Sciences | |
| Society for Technocal Communication | Alan Gaynor |
| TopQuadrant |
see also: DBWG details for this group (Member-only).
Charter/History
The Best Practices and Deployment WG charter delegates a portion of work from the W3C Membership as a whole to this group. The events below lead up to the creation of this group, and chart our progress:
- 29 Sep 2006: WG closed
- 4-5 Nov 2005: Face-To-Face in Galway [minutes]
- 3-4 March 2005: Face-To-Face at theTechnical Plenary and WG Meeting Week, Boston.agenda, [minutes]
- SemWeb Best Practices and Deployment F2F 1-2 Nov 2004, Bristol UK [minutes]
- Semantic-Web Best Practices and Deployment (SWBPD) Working Group Kick-off meeting Tech Plenary Cannes, 4-5 March 2004 [minutes]
- 2004-02-25: W3C Announces the Launch of Phase Two of the Semantic Web Activity, and the creation of the Best Practices and Deployment Working Group.
Background References
- W3C Process of 19 July 2001, supplementary Art of Consensus Guide
- Tips for scribes
- W3C Editor's home page
- Task Force description template
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Ralph Swick, WG Team Contact
Guus Schreiber, co-Chair
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