The World Wide Web Consortium is responsible for defining some of the most important specification that enable interoperability on the Web. These specs include XML, HTML, CSS, RDF, SOAP and WSDL.
This page collects RDF data sets that are part of the Semantic Web.
To be part of the Semantic Web, data has to be accessible as RDF over the HTTP protocol through at least one of the access methods listed below. The more methods the better (but avoid aliases). See also tutorial on How to publish Linked Data on the Web.
JustSystems has kindly agreed to sponsor me as a W3C Fellow for work on XBRL and the Semantic Web. XBRL gives precise semantics to financial reports and has the backing of financial institutions around the world. There is tremendous potential for combining XBRL with the Semantic Web as a means to support the analysis and exploration of huge amounts of financial data. I hope to explore this potential in collaboration with XBRL International, the research groups working in this area, and the many
The W3C OWL Working Group published seven documents related to the OWL 2 Web Ontology Language. OWL 2 extends OWL adding new features that users have requested and that software providers are prepared to implement.