W3C Web Ontology (WebOnt) WG
- new part of the W3C Semantic Web Activity
- 52 members,
co-chaired by
Jim Hendler
and
Guus Schreiber
- WebOnt Charter
- good summary of Semantic Web technical issues
- DAML+OIL (March 2001) is the starting point for the
Ontology Web Language (OWL)
- rules, query, and services are specifically out of scope
- may be addressed by a future working group
- started in November 2001;
first face-to-face meeting
in January 2002
- a W3C Working Draft on
use cases and requirements
should be published soon
- the resulting language is expected to be called OWL for
"Ontology Web Language" or "Web Ontology Language"
- OWL is expected to ultimately replace
DAML+OIL,
but we recommend that users start now with DAML+OIL
and migrate to OWL as the language and supporting tools
become available
- see
here
for more information
