Semantically-Enabled Standard development

Today, XML technologies are routinely used to define semi-normative versions of IT standards by a number of SDOs (Standard Development Organisations). Some SDOs (W3C, OGC or OASIS) have started to work on the addition of Semantic Web technologies (ontologies, RDF/linked data) to their standard development toolbox for a number of reasons: richer expressivity, web-ification of shared resources, basis for harmonisation. This presentation will cover the work done within the W3C Semantic Sensor Network Incubator Activity (SSN-XG) on the transition to semantically-enabled standards and discuss how machine-processable ontologies can be designed and used to upgrade services based on existing XML-based standards.