Top semsters will be packing their swimming togs, sun lotion and scuba gear as well as their laptops this weekend and traveling to the Semantic Web Interest Group (SWIG) meeting in Cannes in the beautiful South of France next Monday and Tuesday. The SWIG bash is part of the W3C Technical Plenary Meeting which continues for the rest of the week.

Chaired by the 'Father of FOAF' Dan Brickley, the meeting has a packed agenda with contributions from, amongst many others, Libby Miller who talks about RDF Calendar and also the interesting work in progress on RDF image annotation and 'our man on the Med' Danny Ayers who travels over the border from his home in Italy to talk about using XHTML Outlines and XSLT to extract RDF from web pages and his own implementation XOW.

Rumour has it however that the real action will be at the beach bar where the detailed planning for the recently announced Semantic Web Activity Phase 2 will be taking place between other strenuous activities such as the traditional beach tennis match between the 'URI is an identifier' and the 'URI is a physical resource' camps.

Phase 2 will see the creation of two new Working Groups, the Semantic Web Best Practices and Deployment WG and the RDF Data Access WG. SchemaWeb users will be pleased to see that the Best Practices and Deployment WG charter contains the following fragment:

We are honoured!

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