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RDF and OWL Are W3C Recommendations

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the standardization-baby dept.

J1 writes "The World Wide Web Consortium today released the Resource Description Framework (RDF) and the OWL Web Ontology Language (OWL) as W3C Recommendations. RDF is used to represent information and to exchange knowledge in the Web. OWL is used to publish and share sets of terms called ontologies, supporting advanced Web search, software agents and knowledge management. Read the press release for the full list of twelve documents, read the testimonials, and visit the Semantic Web home page."

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  1. The semantic web... by schon · · Score: 5, Interesting

    When I first read about "the semantic web", my first thoughts were "how the hell is this useful?"

    About a year later, I noticed that Clay Shirkey had written an interesting article on the Semantic Web...

    It's a bit of a long read, but it does sum up the issues with it quite handily.

  2. Re:This is good news by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Surely it's about time for Slashdot to go XHTML+CSS?

    I'd be thrilled if they even just went to valid HTML. Then we could move to a nice HTML 4.01 transitional with CSS. Heck, they still haven't replaced their .gifs with 8-bit .pngs which would save them a chunk bandwidth (it all adds up!).

  3. Review vocabulary by Deraj+DeZine · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I've been looking for some sort of RDF review vocabulary so that I can incorporate product reviews into RSS feeds (but also store them seperately in a complete archive or something). With some sort of review aggregator/grabber, it seems like this would be simple to find out if your friends (as opposed to zealots) liked/disliked a product. The best-looking review vocabulary I've found is the Ideagraph one. Any tools that support reviews with such a format? Or any repositories for RDF reviews? Other formats?

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