Re: Semantic Web Best Practices and Deployment Working Group now closed

Hi all,

Thanks to everyone involved in making the SWBPD WG a success.  I wish  
you all well and look forward to occasionally seeing you at conferences.

Please join me in thanking Guus and Ralph for a job well done.

Regards,
Dave


On 29 Sep2006, at 11:42, Susan Lesch wrote:

> Dear Advisory Committee Representatives, Working Group  
> participants, and Chairs,
>
> Based on the successful completion of its deliverables, the  
> Semantic Web Best
> Practices and Deployment Working Group is now closed.
>
> Please join us in congratulating all participants on the successful  
> completion
> of the group's deliverables. We wish to thank co-Chairs Guus  
> Schreiber and
> David Wood for their leadership and contributions to W3C.
>
> More information about the Semantic Web Best Practices and  
> Deployment Working
> Group is available on their home page:
>
>     http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/BestPractices/
>
> ------------------------------------------
> Semantic Web Best Practices and Deployment
> Working Group Achievements
> ------------------------------------------
>
> The Semantic Web Best Practices and Deployment Working Group was  
> chartered to
> provide hands-on support for developers of Semantic Web  
> applications in
> various forms, ranging from engineering guidelines, ontology /  
> vocabulary
> repositories to educational material and demo applications. During its
> lifetime the group produced these W3C technical reports:
>
> Working Group Notes
>
>   Defining N-ary Relations on the Semantic Web: Use With
>   Individuals
>     12 April 2006
>     http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/NOTE-swbp-n-aryRelations-20060412/
>
>   Representing Classes As Property Values on the Semantic Web
>     5 April 2005
>     www.w3.org/TR/2005/NOTE-swbp-classes-as-values-20050405/
>
>   Representing Specified Values in OWL: "value partitions" and
>   "value sets"
>     17 May 2005
>     www.w3.org/TR/2005/NOTE-swbp-specified-values-20050517/
>
>   A Semantic Web Primer for Object-Oriented Software Developers
>     9 March 2006
>     www.w3.org/TR/2006/NOTE-sw-oosd-primer-20060309/
>
>   A Survey of RDF/Topic Maps Interoperability Proposals
>     10 February 2006
>     www.w3.org/TR/2006/NOTE-rdftm-survey-20060210/
>
>   XML Schema Datatypes in RDF and OWL
>     14 March 2006
>     www.w3.org/TR/2006/NOTE-swbp-xsch-datatypes-20060314/
>
> Working Drafts
>
>   Best Practice Recipes for Publishing RDF Vocabularies
>     14 March 2006
>     www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-swbp-vocab-pub-20060314/
>
>   Image Annotation on the Semantic Web
>     22 March 2006
>     www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-swbp-image-annotation-20060322/
>
>   RDF/A Primer 1.0; Embedding RDF in XHTML
>     10 March 2006
>     www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-xhtml-rdfa-primer-20060516/
>
>   RDF/OWL Representation of WordNet
>     19 June 2006
>     www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-wordnet-rdf-20060619/
>
>   SKOS Core Vocabulary Specification
>     2 November 2005
>     www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-swbp-skos-core-spec-20051102/
>
>   SKOS Core Guide
>     2 November 2005
>     www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-swbp-skos-core-guide-20051102/
>
>   Quick Guide to Publishing a Thesaurus on the Semantic Web
>     17 May 2005
>     www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-swbp-thesaurus-pubguide-20050517/
>
>   Time Ontology in OWL
>     27 September 2006
>     www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-owl-time-20060927/
>
> ----------
> Next Steps
> ----------
>
> The new Semantic Web Deployment Working Group [1] has been  
> chartered to
> continue work on practical RDF development and deployment practices  
> in the
> areas of publishing vocabularies, OWL usage, and integrating RDF  
> with HTML
> documents. The group's first teleconference is 10 October 2006.
>
>     [1] http://www.w3.org/2006/07/SWD/
>
> The new Semantic Web Education and Outreach Interest Group [2] has  
> been
> established to develop strategies and materials to increase  
> awareness and
> educate the Web community regarding related Semantic Web solutions and
> technologies. This group is planning to hold its first face-to-face  
> meeting
> mid November in the Boston area.
>
>     [2] http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/sweo/
>
> The W3C Multimedia Semantics Incubator Group [3] is working on  
> materials to
> increase metadata interoperability, add formal semantics to, and  
> provide best
> practices for annotation of metadata for multimedia content in the  
> Web. This
> group began in June 2006.
>
>     [3] http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/mmsem/
>
> This announcement follows the Process Document section 5.5  
> "Activity Closure" [4].
>
> For Tim Berners-Lee, W3C Director;
> Susan Lesch, W3C Communications Team
>
> [4] http://www.w3.org/2005/10/Process-20051014/ 
> activities#ActivityTermination
>
>

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