European Semantic Web Update
by
Dan Brickley
Table of contents
INTAP talk: European Semantic Web Update
Introduction
W3C Semantic Web Activity
Where are we up to?
RDF's advantage: Mixing independent vocabularies
Characteristics of RDF/RDFS
Basic OWL
Characteristics of OWL
European Perspective
SWAD-Europe Overview
What kinds of things do we do?
Technology and Application areas
Collecting (and answering) FAQs...
Supporting SW developers through the Semantic Web Interest Group
Surveying European SW projects
EU 5th Framework (completing in 2004)
Related Work
6th Framework (recently started)
FP6 (continued)
FP6 (continued...)
Other EU...
Possible near-term work items for W3C
Business Futures
Deployment issues
Deployment examples
What needs to be done?
Conclusions
Thank you
Appendix: RDF Data Access: query and protocol