Re: SKOS is a W3C Recommendation

Congrats from my corner as well. A solid and useful work!

Cheers,
             Michael
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On 18 Aug 2009, at 18:46, "Dan Brickley" <danbri@danbri.org> wrote:

> On 18/08/2009 19:34, Ralph R. Swick wrote:
>> Currently on the W3C home page:
>>
>>  From Chaos, Order: SKOS Recommendation Helps Organize Knowledge
>>
>>     2009-08-18: Today W3C announces a new standard that builds a  
>> bridge
>>     between the world of knowledge organization systems - including
>>     thesauri, classifications, subject headings, taxonomies, and
>>     folksonomies - and the linked data community, bringing benefits  
>> to
>>     both. Libraries, museums, newspapers, government portals,
>>     enterprises, social networking applications, and other  
>> communities
>>     that manage large collections of books, historical artifacts,  
>> news
>>     reports, business glossaries, blog entries, and other items can
>>     now use Simple Knowledge Organization System (SKOS) to leverage
>>     the power of linked data. The Semantic Web Deployment Working
>>     Group also published today two Group Notes with the
>>     Recommendation, updating the SKOS Primer and SKOS Use Cases and
>>     Requirements. Read the press release [1] and testimonials [2]
>>     and learn more about the Semantic Web Activity.
>>     -- http://www.w3.org/News/2009#item140
>>
>>    [1] http://www.w3.org/2009/07/skos-pr
>>    [2] http://www.w3.org/2009/07/skos-testimonial
>>
>> Enormous thanks to Alistair, Sean, Antoine, Ed, Jon, Daniel, Tom,
>> and Guus for editing these documents and chairing the Group to
>> this achievement.
>
> Ah, you made my day :) This is really great news! Good things are  
> worth waiting for... congratulations to everyone who worked so long  
> on getting this so well specified, implemented and used!
>
> cheers,
>
> Dan
>

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