This page lists the latest versions of all W3C
Recommendatations and Notes that have been published by the various
Semantic Web Activity Groups or relevant Incubator Groups. For a more
complete lists of specifications, including older, obsolete versions and
drafts, see the general page on W3C documents.
See also the list of translations for RDF,
GRDDL,
RDFa,
RDB2RDF,
SPARQL,
OWL,
POWDER,
PROV,
and RIF
You may want to look at the collection of SW
Case Studies and Use Cases to see how organizations are using these
technologies today.
Resource Description Framework (RDF)
- RDF Primer, W3C Recommendation, February 10, 2004, Frank
Manola and Eric
Miller, eds.
- RDF/XML Syntax Specification (Revised), W3C
Recommendation, February
10, 2004, Dave Beckett, ed.
- RDF Vocabulary Description Language 1.0: RDF
Schema, W3C Recommendation, February
10, 2004, Ramanathan V. Guha and Dan
Brickley, eds.
- Resource Description Framework (RDF): Concepts and
Abstract Syntax, W3C Recommendation, February
10, 2004, Graham Klyne and Jeremy J.
Carroll, eds.
- RDF Semantics, W3C Recommendation, February 10, 2004, Patrick
Hayes, ed.
- RDF Test Cases, W3C Recommendation, February 10, 2004, Jan
Grant and Dave
Beckett, eds.
- rdf:PlainLiteral: A Datatype for RDF Plain
Literals, W3C Recommendation, October
27, 2009, Jie Bao, Sandro Hawke, Boris Motik, Peter F. Patel-Schneider,
and Axel
Polleres, eds.
- N-Triples, W3C Working Group Note, April 9, 2013,
Gavin
Carothers, ed.
- N-Quads, W3C Working Group Note, April 9, 2013,
Gavin
Carothers, ed.
Gleaning Resource Descriptions from Dialects of
Languages (GRDDL)
- Gleaning Resource Descriptions from Dialects of
Languages (GRDDL), W3C Recommendation, September
11, 2007, Dan Connolly ed.
- GRDDL Test Cases, W3C Recommendation, September 11, 2007, Chimezie
Ogbuji ed.
- GRDDL Primer, W3C Working Group Note, September 11, 2007, Harry
Halpin ed.
- GRDDL Use Cases: Scenarios of extracting RDF data
from XML documents, W3C Working Group Note, April 6, 2007
Fabien
Gandon ed.
RDFa in XHTML: Syntax and Processing
- RDFa Core 1.1, W3C Recommendation, June 7, 2012,
Ben
Adida, Mark
Birbeck, Shane
McCarron, and Ivan
Herman, eds.
- XHTML+RDFa 1.1, W3C Recommendation, June 7, 2012,
Shane
McCarron, ed.
- RDFa Lite 1.1, W3C Recommendation, June 7, 2012,
Manu
Sporny, ed.
- RDFa 1.1 Primer, W3C Working Group Note, June 7, 2012, Ben
Adida, Ivan
Herman, Manu
Sporny, and Mark
Birbeck, eds.
RDB2RDF
- A Direct Mapping of Relational Data to RDF,
W3C Recommendation, September27,
2012, Marcelo Areanas, Alexandre
Bertails, Eric
Prud’hommeaux, and Juan Sequeda, eds.
- R2RML: RDB to RDF Mapping Language, W3C
Recommendation, September27,
2012, Souripriya Das, Seema Sundara, and Richard
Cyganiak, eds.
Rule Interchange Format (RIF)
- RIF Core Dialect (Second Edition), W3C
Recommendation, February
5, 2013, Harold Boley, Michael Kifer, Adrian Paschke, Axel Polleres, Dave Reynolds, and eds.
- RIF Basic Logic Dialect (Second Edition), W3C
Recommendation, February
5, 2013, Harold Boley and Michael
Kifer, eds.
- RIF Production Rule Dialect (Second Edition),
W3C Recommendation, February
5, 2013, Christian de Sainte Marie
and Gary
Hallmark, eds.
- RIF Framework for Logic Dialects (Second Edition),
W3C Recommendation, February
5, 2013, Harold Boley and Michael
Kifer, eds.
- RIF Datatypes and Built-Ins 1.0 (Second Edition),
W3C Recommendation, February
5, 2013, Axel Polleres, Harold Boley, and Michael
Kifer, eds.
- RIF RDF and OWL Compatibility (Second Edition),
W3C Recommendation, February
5, 2013, Jos de Bruijn, ed.
- RIF Overview (Second Edition), W3C Working
Group Note, February 5,
2013, Harold Boley and Michael
Kifer, ed.
- OWL 2 RL in RIF (Second Edition), W3C Working
Group Note, February 5,
2013, Dave Reynolds, ed.
- RIF in RDF (Second Edition), W3C Working Group
Note, February 5, 2013,
Sandro Hawke and Axel
Polleres, ed.
- RIF Use Cases and Requirements (Second Edition),
W3C Working Group Note, February
5, 2013, Adrian Paschke, Leora Morgenstern, David
Hirtle, Alen
Ginsberg, Paula-Lavinia
Patranjan, and Frank McCabe, ed.
- RIF Test Cases (Second Edition), W3C Working
Group Note, February 5,
2013, Stella Mitchell, Leora
Morgenstern, and Adrian Paschke, ed.
- RIF Primer (Second Edition), W3C Working Group
Note, February 5, 2013,
Leora Morgenstern, Chris
Welty, Harold
Boley, and Gary
Hallmark, ed.
SKOS Simple Knowledge Organization System
- SKOS Simple Knowledge Organization System
Reference, W3C Recommendation, August
18, 2009, Alistair Miles and Sean
Bechhofer, eds.
- SKOS Simple Knowledge Organization System Primer,
W3C Working Group Note, August
18, 2009, Antoine Isaac and Ed Summers,
eds.
- SKOS Use Cases and Requirements, W3C Working
Group Note, August 18,
2009, Antoine Isaac, Jon Phipp, and Daniel Rubin, eds.
SPARQL Query Language for RDF
- SPARQL 1.1 Overview, W3C
Recommendation, March
21, 2013,
- SPARQL 1.1 Query Language, W3C
Recommendation, March
21, 2013,
Steve Harris
and Andy Seaborne,
eds.
- SPARQL 1.1 Update, W3C
Recommendation, March
21, 2013,
Paul Gearon,
Alexandre Passant,
and Axel Polleres,
eds.
- SPARQL 1.1 Service Description, W3C
Recommendation, March
21, 2013,
Gregory Todd Williams,
ed.
- SPARQL 1.1 Federated Query, W3C
Recommendation, March
21, 2013,
Eric Prud'hommeaux
and Carlos Buil-Aranda,
eds.
- SPARQL 1.1 Query Results JSON Format, W3C
Recommendation, March
21, 2013,
Andy Seaborne,
ed.
- SPARQL 1.1 Query Results CSV and TSV Formats, W3C
Recommendation, March
21, 2013,
Andy Seaborne,
ed.
- SPARQL Query Results XML Format (Second Edition), W3C
Recommendation, March
21, 2013,
Sandro Hawke,
ed.
- SPARQL 1.1 Entailment Regimes, W3C
Recommendation, March
21, 2013,
Birte Glimm
and Chimezie Ogbuji,
eds.
- SPARQL 1.1 Protocol, W3C
Recommendation, March
21, 2013,
Lee Feigenbaum
and Gregory Todd Williams,
eds.
- SPARQL Graph Store HTTP Protocol, W3C
Recommendation, March
21, 2013,
Chimezie Ogbuji,
ed.
Web Ontology Language (OWL 2)
- OWL 2 Web Ontology Language Document Overview
(Second Edition), W3C Recommendation, December
11, 2012,
- OWL 2 Web Ontology Language Structural
Specification and Functional-Style Syntax (Second Edition), W3C
Recommendation, December
11, 2012, Boris Motik, Peter F. Patel-Schneider,
and Bijan
Parsia, eds.
- OWL 2 Web Ontology Language Mapping to RDF Graphs
(Second Edition), W3C Recommendation, December
11, 2012, Peter F. Patel-Schneider
and Boris
Motik, eds.
- OWL 2 Web Ontology Language Direct Semantics
(Second Edition), W3C Recommendation, December
11, 2012, Boris Motik and Peter F. Patel-Schneider,
eds.
- OWL 2 Web Ontology Language RDF-Based Semantics,
W3C Recommendation, December
11, 2012, Michael Schneider, ed.
- OWL 2 Web Ontology Language Conformance, W3C
Recommendation, December
11, 2012, Michael Smith, Ian Horrock, Markus Krötzsch, and Birte
Glimm, eds.
- OWL 2 Web Ontology Language Profiles, W3C
Recommendation, December
11, 2012, Boris Motik, Bernardo Cuenca Grau, Ian
Horrock, Zhe
Wu, Achille
Fokoue, and Carsten
Lutz, eds.
- OWL 2 Web Ontology Language Primer, W3C
Recommendation, December
11, 2012, Pascal Hitzler, Markus Krötzsch, Bijan
Parsia, Peter
F. Patel-Schneider, and Sebastian Rudolph, eds.
- OWL 2 Web Ontology Language Quick Reference Guide,
W3C Recommendation, December
11, 2012, Elisa F. Kendall, Deborah L.
McGuinness, and Peter F. Patel-Schneider,
eds.
- OWL 2 Web Ontology Language XML Serialization,
W3C Recommendation, December
11, 2012, Boris Motik, Bijan Parsia, and Peter F.
Patel-Schneider, eds.
- OWL 2 Web Ontology Language Manchester Syntax,
W3C Working Group Note, December
11, 2012, Matthew Horridge and Peter F.
Patel-Schneider, eds.
- OWL 2 Web Ontology Language Data Range Extension:
Linear Equations, W3C Working Group Note, December 11, 2012, Bijan
Parsia and Uli
Sattler, eds.
PROV family of documents (PROV)
- PROV-Overview: An Overview of the PROV Family of Documents, W3C Working Group Note, April 30, 2013, Paul Groth and Luc Moreau, eds.
- PROV Model Primer, W3C Working Group Note, April 30, 2013,
Yolanda Gil
and Simon Miles,
eds.
- PROV-O: The PROV Ontology, W3C Recommendation, April 30, 2013,
Timothy Lebo,
Satya Sahoo,
and Deborah McGuinness,
eds.
- PROV-DM: The PROV Data Model, W3C Recommendation, April 30, 2013,
Luc Moreau
and Paolo Missier,
eds.
- PROV-N: The Provenance Notation, W3C Recommendation, April 30, 2013,
Luc Moreau
and Paolo Missier,
eds.
- Constraints of the PROV Data Model, W3C Recommendation, April 30, 2013,
James Cheney,
Paolo Missier,
and Luc Moreau,
eds.
- PROV-XML: The PROV XML Schema, W3C Working Group Note, April 30, 2013,
Hook Hua,
Cirt Tilmes,
and Stephan Zednik,
eds.
- PROV-AQ: Provenance Access and Query, W3C Working Group Note, April 30, 2013,
Graham Klyne
and Paul Groth,
eds.
- PROV-Dictionary: Modeling Provenance for Dictionary Data Structures, W3C Working Group Note, April 30, 2013,
Tom De Nies
and Sam Coppens,
eds.
- Dublin Core to PROV Mapping, W3C Working Group Note, April 30, 2013,
Daniel Garijo
and Kai Eckert,
eds.
- Linking Across Provenance Bundles, W3C Working Group Note, April 30, 2013,
Luc Moreau
and Timothy Lebo,
eds.
Protocol for Web Description Resources (POWDER)
- Protocol for Web Description Resources (POWDER):
Description Resources, W3C Recommendation, September 1, 2009, Phil
Archer, Kevin
Smith, and Andrea
Perego, eds.
- Protocol for Web Description Resources (POWDER):
Grouping of Resources, W3C Recommendation, September 1, 2009, Phil
Archer, Andrea
Perego, and Kevin
Smith, eds.
- Protocol for Web Description Resources (POWDER):
Formal Semantics, W3C Recommendation, September
1, 2009, Stasinos Konstantopoulos
and Phil
Archer, eds.
- Protocol for Web Description Resources (POWDER):
Primer, W3C Working Group Note, September
1, 2009, Kai Scheppe, ed.
- Protocol for Web Description Resources (POWDER):
Test Suite, W3C Working Group Note, September
10, 2009, Antonis Kukurikos and Phil
Archer, eds.
- POWDER: Use Cases and Requirements, W3C
Working Group Note, June
4, 2009, Phil Archer, ed.
Semantic Web Deployment
- Best Practice Recipes for Publishing RDF
Vocabularies, W3C Working Group Note, August
28, 2008, Diego Berrueta and Jon Phipps,
eds.
- Defining N-ary Relations on the Semantic Web,
W3C Working Group Note, April
12, 2006, Natasha Noy and Alan Rector, eds.
- XML Schema Datatypes in RDF and OWL, W3C
Working Group Note, March
14, 2006, Jeremy J. Carroll and Jeff Z.
Pan, eds.
- A Survey of RDF/Topic Maps Interoperability
Proposals, W3C Working Group Note, March
9, 2006, Steve Pepper, Fabio Vitali, Nicola Gessa, and Valentina
Presutti, eds.
- A Semantic Web Primer for Object-Oriented Software
Developers, W3C Working Group Note, March
9, 2006, Holger Knublauch, Daniel
Oberle, Phil
Tetlow, and Evan
Wallace, eds.
- Representing Specified Values in OWL: "value
partitions" and "value sets", W3C Working Group Note, May 17, 2005,
Alan
Rector, ed.
- Representing Classes As Property Values on the
Semantic Web, W3C Working Group Note, April
5, 2005, Natasha Noy, ed.
Miscellaneous Notes
- HTML Data Guide, W3C Interest Group Note, March 8, 2012, Jeni
Tennison, eds.
- Microdata to RDF—Transformation from
HTML+Microdata to RDF, W3C Interest Group Note, October 9, 2012,
Gregg
Kellog, ed.
- Describing Linked Datasets with the VoID
Vocabulary, W3C Interest Group Note, March
3, 2011, Keith Alexander, Richard
Cyganiak, Michael
Hausenblas, and Jun Zhao, eds.
- Cool URIs for the Semantic Web, W3C Interest
Group Note, March 31,
2008, Leo Sauermann and Richard
Cyganiak, eds.
- LBase: Semantics for Languages of the Semantic Web,
W3C Interest Group Note, October
3, 2003, Ramanathan V. Guha and Patrick
Hayes, eds.
- An RDF Schema for P3P, W3C Interest Group
Note, January 25, 2002,
Brian McBride Rigo Wenning, and Lorrie
Cranor, eds.
- An RDF Schema for the XML Information Set, W3C
Interest Group Note, April
6, 2001, Richard Tobin, ed.
- Harvesting RDF Statements from XLinks, W3C
Note, September 29, 2000,
Ron Daniel Jr., ed.
- The Cambridge Communiqué, W3C Note, September 29, 2000, Ralph
R. Swick and Henry
S. Thompson, eds.
- A Discussion of the Relationship Between
RDF-Schema and UML, W3C Note, August
4, 1998, Walter W. Chang, ed.
Health Care and Life Science Related Notes
- Semantic Web Applications in Neuromedicine (SWAN)
Ontology, W3C Interest Group Note, October
20, 2009, Paolo Ciccarese, ed.
- SIOC, SIOC Types and Health Care and Life Sciences,
W3C Interest Group Note, October
20, 2009, Alexandre Passant, ed.
- SWAN/SIOC: Alignment Between the SWAN and SIOC
Ontologies, W3C Interest Group Note, October
20, 2009, Alexandre Passant and Paolo
Ciccarese, eds.
- A Prototype Knowledge Base for the Life Sciences,
W3C Interest Group Note, June
4, 2008, Alan Ruttenberg, Jonathan
Rees, Susie
Stephens, Matthias
Samwald, and Kei-Hoi
Cheung, eds.
- Experiences with the conversion of SenseLab
databases to RDF/OWL, W3C Interest Group Note, June 4, 2008,
Matthias
Samwald and Kei-Hoi
Cheung, eds.
Incubator Group Reports
- Image Annotation on the Semantic Web, W3C
Incubator Group Report, August
14, 2007, Raphaël Troncy, Jacco van Ossenbruggen,
Jeff
Z. Pan, and Giorgos
Stamou, eds.
- W3C Geospatial Vocabulary, W3C Incubator Group
Report, October 23, 2007,
Raj Singh and Chris Goad, eds.
- Uncertainty Reasoning for the World Wide Web,
W3C Incubator Group Report, March
31, 2008, Kenneth J. Laskey, Kathryn B.
Laskey, Paulo
C. G. Costa, Mieczyslaw
M. Kokar, Trevor
Martin, and Thomas
Lukasiewicz, eds.
- Product Modelling using Semantic Web Technologies,
W3C Incubator Group Report, March
31, 2008, Michel Böhms, David Leal, Henson Graves, and Kendall
Grant Clark, eds.
- RDB2RDF, W3C Incubator Group Report, January 26, 2009,
Ashok
Malhotra, ed.
- A Standards-based, Open and Privacy-aware Social
Web, W3C Incubator Group Report, December
6, 2010, Harry Halpin, Mischa Tuffield, Daniel
Appelquist, Dan
Brickley, Melvin
Carvahlo, Renato
Iannella, Alexandre
Passant, Christine
Perey, and Henry
Story, eds.
- A Provenance XG Final Report, W3C Incubator
Group Report, December
14, 2010, Yolanda Gil, James Cheney, Paul Groth, Olaf Hartig, Simon Miles, Luc Moreau, and Paulo Pinheiro da Silva,
eds.
- Semantic Sensor Network XG Final Report, W3C
Incubator Group Report, June
28, 2011, Laurent Lefort, Cory Henson, and Kerry
Taylor, eds.
- Library Linked Data Incubator Group Final Report,
W3C Incubator Group Report, October
25, 2011, Thomas Baker, Emmanuelle Bermès, Karen
Coyle, Gordon
Dunsire, Antoine
Isaac, Peter
Murray, Jodi
Schneider, Ross
Singer, Ed
Summers, William
Waites, and Marcia
Zeng, eds.
- Library Linked Data Incubator Group: Use Cases,
W3C Incubator Group Report, October
25, 2011, Daniel Vila Suero, ed.
- Library Linked Data Incubator Group: Datasets,
Value Vocabularies, and Metadata Element Sets, W3C Incubator Group
Report, October 25, 2011,
Antoine Isaac, William Waites, Jeff Young, and Marcia Zeng, eds.