W3C Web Ontology (WebOnt) Working Group
new part of the
W3C Semantic Web Activity
49
members
, co-chaired by
Jim Hendler
and
Guus Schreiber
started in November 2001;
first face-to-face meeting
in January 2002
currently working on use cases and requirements
WebOnt Charter
good summary of Semantic Web technical issues
DAML+OIL (March 2001) is the starting point for the Ontology Web Language (OWL)
rules are specifically out of scope
may be addressed by a future working group
Mike Dean
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