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The aim of this Semantic Web Best Practices and Deployment (SWBPD) Working Group is to provide hands-on support for developers of Semantic Web applications. With the publication of the revised RDF and the new OWL specification we expect a large number of new application developers. Some evidence of this could be seen at the last International Semantic Web Conference in Florida, which featured a wide range of applications, including 10 submissions to the Semantic Web Challenge. This working group will help application developers by providing them with "best practices" in various forms, ranging from engineering guidelines, ontology / vocabulary repositories to educational material and demo applications.
The group maintains a list of Semantic Web applications and demos for promoting the Semantic Web and for use by developers. More information about the rules for inclusion and how to get your application in the list is available.
When a document is published, it will contain information on where feedback should be sent. Public comments on the work of this Working Group may be sent to the WG mailing list, public-swbp-wg@w3.org. Please start the subject line of such a message with the string "comment:".
This area to grow as the Working Group produces documents.
note: W3C manual of style, Style for Group-internal Drafts, pubrules checker, spec-prod
The following task forces are in progress:
The following task forces have completed their deliverable(s) and are no longer convening:
The following task forces are on hold:
Other task forces that have expressions of interest from WG members include:
initially from the charter; changes to be negotiated with the relevant parties via the SemWeb CG:
This Working Group is chartered for a duration of 20 months, through 31 January 2006. The kick-off meeting was held on March 4-5 2004 at the W3C Tech Plenary in Cannes.
The Working Group will initiate task forces for producing Working Group notes. These task forces will typically operate in the following way:
To join this working group, review the charter etc. and have your Advisory Committee representative nominate you using the form from the CFP (member-confidential). If you are not affiliated with a W3C member organization but you feel you have expertise not currently represented in the group that you would like to contribute, contact the chairs.
Then, if you like, introduce yourself to the group with a short bio and and what you have to contribute, as well as what you hope to get from the group.
As of 2006-07-11T13:14:41Z the following participation appointments have been received from the respective Advisory Committee representatives:
| Responder | Selected representative |
|---|---|
| Mondeca | Bernard Vatant |
| Hewlett Packard Company | Brian McBride, Jeremy Carroll, David Booth |
| Agfa-Gevaert N. V. | Jos De Roo |
| Center for Mathematics and Computer Science (CWI) | Jacco van Ossenbruggen, Raphael Troncy |
| CNR--Instituto Elaborazione dell'Informazione | Aldo Gangemi, Nicola Guarino |
| Maryland Information and Network Dynamics Lab at the University of Maryland | Christian Halaschek-Wiener, David Wood |
| Stanford University | Deborah McGuinness, Natasha Noy |
| Bristol, University of | |
| Asemantics S.R.L. | Libby Miller |
| International Webmasters Association / HTML Writers Guild (IWA-HWG) | Pasquale Popolizio |
| Vodafone Group Services Limited | |
| Athena Information Technology (AIT) | Thanassis Tiropanis |
| Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique | Fabien Gandon, Benjamin Nguyen |
| Ibrow | Guus Schreiber (co-Chair) |
| Council for the Central Laboratory of the Research Councils (CCL) | Alistair Miles |
| Fraunhofer Gesellschaft | |
| America Online (AOL) | |
| National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) | Evan Wallace |
| Southampton, University of | Nicholas Gibbins |
| Boeing Company | Michael Uschold |
| W3C Team | Ralph Swick (Team contact) |
| Network Inference | Gary Ng, Jeff Pollock |
| Free University of Bozen-Bolzano | Enrico Franconi, Sergio Tessaris |
| Creative Commons | Ben Adida |
| (invited expert) | Patrick Hayes |
| Digital Enterprise Research Institute | Andreas Harth |
| Ontopia SA | Steve Pepper, Lars Marius Garshol |
| T-Online | |
| McDonald Bradley | Darren Govoni |
| IBM | Grady Booch, Philip Tetlow, Elias Torres, Chris Welty |
| University of Manchester | Alan Rector, Holger Knublauch |
| University of Bologna | Nicola Gessa, Marco Pirruccio, Valentina Presutti, Fabio Vitali |
| Internet Association Japan | Noboru Shimizu |
| Adobe Systems | |
| FZI | Daniel Oberle |
| Sandpiper Software, Inc. | Elisa Kendall |
| France Telecom | Alain Leger, Marco Nanni |
| USC/ISI | Jerry Hobbs, Feng Pan |
| IVML, National Technical University of Athens | Nikolaos Simou, Giorgos Stamou, Giorgos Stoilos, Vassilis Tzouvaras |
| Institut fuer wissenschaftliche Information | Thomas Baker |
| FSTC | Rachel Yager |
| CDAC | v n shukla |
| Vrije Universiteit | Mark van Assem |
| Language and Computing, nv | Christoffel Dhaen |
| University of Aberdeen, Computing Science | Jeff Pan |
| (invited expert) | Chris Menzel |
| IIT, NCSR | Vangelis Karkaletsis, Pantelis Nasikas, Konstantinos Stamatakis |
| Chinese Academy of Sciences | |
| Society for Technocal Communication | Alan Gaynor |
| TopQuadrant |
see also: DBWG details for this group (Member-only).
The Best Practices and Deployment WG charter delegates a portion of work from the W3C Membership as a whole to this group. The events below lead up to the creation of this group, and chart our progress:
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Ralph Swick, WG Team Contact