W3C Tutorial (14): W3C RDF and OWL Activities

RDF Primer February 10, 2004 RDF Test Cases February 10, 2004 RDF Concept February 10, 2004 RDF Semantics February 10, 2004 RDF Schema February 10, 2004 RDF Syntax February 10, 2004 OWL Overview February 10, 2004 OWL Guide February 10, 2004 OWL Reference February 10, 2004 OWL Syntax February 10, 2004 OWL Test Cases February 10, 2004 OWL Use Cases February 10, 2004 Parsing OWL in RDF January 21, 2004 SPARQL Requirements March 25, 2005 SPARQL Language January 15, 2008 W3C Reference
W3C Semantic Web Activities

RDF and OWL are two important semantic web technologies. RDF and OWL are two important semantic web technologies. Semantic Web The Semantic Web is a framework for asset management, enterprise integration, and sharing and reuse of networked data. The Semantic Web provides a platform- and software-independent framework for sharing data between enterprises, applications, companies, groups, and individuals. RDF and OWL are key technologies of the Semantic Web. They elaborate on structured description and Web-based ontologies respectively. RDF - Resource Description Framework RDF is a language for expressing information on the World Wide Web. RDF can be used to describe web resources, such as title, author and version information, content description, availability schedule, and so on. If you need to learn more about RDF, visit our RDF tutorial. OWL - Web Ontology Language OWL is a language for defining ontologies. Ontologies describe domains of knowledge. Can be used by humans or software to share information about objects, which can be cars, houses, machines, books, products, financial transactions, and so on. OWL is designed to be used for processing information (rather than real information). If you need to learn more about OWL, visit our RDF tutorial. SPARQL - a query language for RDF SPARQL is a standard query language for RDF data, which provides developers with a way to write RDF information query programs across a wide range of WEB. W3C Specifications and Timelines	specification	Draft/Proposal	recommend