- From: McBride, Brian <brian.mcbride@hp.com>
- Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2007 11:50:48 +0000
- To: Richard Cyganiak <richard@cyganiak.de>, "renato@ebi.ac.uk" <renato@ebi.ac.uk>
- Cc: Ehsan Sadeghi <ehsansad48@gmail.com>, "semantic-web@w3.org" <semantic-web@w3.org>
I have not been following this thread, but just to clarify, RDF first became a recommendation 22 Feb 1999. http://www.w3.org/TR/1999/REC-rdf-syntax-19990222/ Brian > -----Original Message----- > From: semantic-web-request@w3.org > [mailto:semantic-web-request@w3.org] On Behalf Of Richard Cyganiak > Sent: 07 December 2007 11:38 > To: renato@ebi.ac.uk > Cc: Ehsan Sadeghi; semantic-web@w3.org > Subject: Re: What is a semantic web application > > > > On 6 Dec 2007, at 21:59, Renato golin wrote: > > and (in my humble opinion) the reason for RDF (much older) > not being > > as accepted as XSD in the industry today. > > Just one correction: XML and XSD standards have been around > *much* longer than RDF. > > XML has become a W3C Recommendation in 1998. > XML Schema has become a W3C Recommendation in 2001. > > Furthermore, XML is a derivate of SGML, which became an ISO > standard in 1986. Therefore, XML already had considerable > industry backing, from day one. > > Development of RDF started in 1999. RDF, RDF Schema and OWL > have become W3C Recommendations in 2004. > > Best, > Richard > > > > > > > > hope that helps, > > --renato > > > > > > >
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