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... an RDF query language and data access protocol could be used in the construction of novel, useful Semantic Web applications in areas like web publishing, personal information management, transportation, and tourism.

RDF Data Access Use Cases and Requirements

Current Events

Earlier meetings are indexed below.

@@obSemWebToDo: RSS feed. via GRDDL?

Schedule/Milestones

No next face-to-face meeting is scheduled. The normal 8 week notice rule (with exception by WG conensus) applies.

Feb 2004
group formation
22-23 Apr 2004 Amsterdam
first face-to-face meeting hosted by @semantics
12 Oct 2004
Publish Working Draft of Design (1): SPARQL Query Language for RDF
21 July 2005
Publish Last Call Working Draft of SPARQL QL, i.e. drafts that addresses all QL issues.
...
see history below
14 September 2005
SPARQL Protocol for RDF W3C Last Call Working Draft
21 Nov - 5 Dec
publication moratorium around AC meeting (see Jacobs 5 Jul)
28 November - 1 December 2005
W3C advisory committee meeting
~ Dec 2005
Candidate Recommendation for SPARQL query language, protocol, results format, and requirements/use cases

Dependencies:

20 Dec - 2 Jan
publication moratorium around holidays (see Jacobs 5 Jul)
Jan 2006
end of scheduled duration; conclude or renew
27 Feb - 3 March 2006 Cannes-Mandelieu, France
W3C tech plenary
~ Jul 2006
PR. dependencies:

see charter for more

@@todo: use WG markup guidelines to formalize schedule; make available as RDF calendar, iCalendar

Membership

  1. Agfa-Gevaert N. V.
    • Jos De Roo (intro. near Bruxelles, Belgium)
    • Dirk Colaert (intro near Bruxelles, Belgium)
  2. Asemantics S.R.L.
  3. Free University of Bozen-Bolzano
    • Enrico Franconi (intro)
    • Andrei Lopatenko
    • Sergio Tessaris
  4. FSTC (Financial Services Technology Consortium)
    • Rachel Yager
  5. Hicks & Associates, Inc.
    • Bryan Thompson, (intro)
  6. HP
    • Andy Seaborne (intro. near BRS)
    • Kevin Wilkinson
  7. IBM Corporation
  8. Maryland Information and Network Dynamics Lab at the University of Maryland
    • Kendall Clark (intro near College Park, Maryland, USA, DCA)
    • Bijan Parsia (intro)
  9. Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. (MEI)
    • Yoshio Fukushige (intro; near Tokyo, Japan)
  10. Nippon Telegraph & Telephone Corp. (NTT)
  11. Oracle Corporation
    • Souripriya Das
  12. Profium Ltd.
    • Janne Saarela (intro. in Espoo, Finland near HEL)
    • Timo Westkämper
  13. Southampton, University of
    • Stephen Harris (intro; near Southampton, United Kingdom)
  14. Vrije Universiteit
  15. Invited Expert
    • Pat Hayes
  16. Invited Expert
    • Howard Katz (intro near YVR)
  17. W3C
    • Dan Connolly, chair (intro. near MCI)
    • Eric Prud'hommeaux, team contact (intro. near NRT)

Former WG members include Dave Beckett of the University of Bristol (intro, resignation), Farrukh Najmi (resignation), Simon Raboczi and Tom Adams of Tucana (intro; resignation 1 Feb), Jeff Pollock and Rob Shearer of Network Inference (intro).

See the forms for a W3C member organization to join the WG and to nominate a participant. If you're 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 chair and team contact. We will eventually need you to agree to the W3C patent policy and such, so you might as well get an account and fill in the invited expert application while you're at it.

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.

@@todo: formalize using foaf? or by querying DBWG records?

admin stuff: DBWG records, patent policy status, list tool, w3t-semweb-review

Charter, History

The Data Access Working Group Charter shows what the W3C has asked this working group to do. The following events chart our progress:

in Nov 2005
teleconferences: 22 Nov, 15 Nov, 8 Nov, 1 Nov
in Oct 2005
teleconferences: 25 Oct, 18 Oct, 11 Oct
in September 2005
teleconferences: 27 Sep, 20 Sep (unofficial), 13 Sep, 6 Sep
in August 2005
teleconferences: 30 Aug, 16 Aug, 9 Aug, 2 Aug
in July 2005
teleconferences: 26 Jul, 19 Jul, 12 Jul, 5 Jul
21 July 2005
last call WD of SPARQL Query Language for RDF
in June 2005
28 Jun, 14 Jun, 7 Jun
in May 2005
teleconferences: 31 May, 24 May, 17 May, 3 May
in Apr 2005
teleconferences: 26 Apr, 19 Apr, 12 Apr, 5 Apr
in Mar 2005
teleconferences: 29 Mar, 22 Mar, 15 Mar, 8 Mar
28 Feb - 1 Mar 2005 in Boston, MA
5th ftf meeting, as part of the W3C Technical plenary
in Feb 2005
teleconferences: 22 Feb, 15 Feb, 8 Feb, 1 Feb
19-20 January 2005 Helsinki, Finland
4th ftf meeting
in Jan 2005
teleconferences: 11 Jan
in Dec 2004
teleconferences: 14 Dec, 7 Dec
in Nov 2004
teleconferences: 30 Nov, 23 Nov, 16 Nov, 9 Nov, 2 Nov
in Oct 2004
teleconferences: 5 Oct, 12 Oct, 19 Oct, 26 Oct
12 Oct 2004
First Working Draft of Design: SPARQL Query Language for RDF
in Sep 2004
teleconference: 28 Sep
16-17 Sep 2004 Bristol, United Kingdom
3rd ftf meeting
in Aug 2004
teleconferences: 31Aug, 24 Aug, 17 Aug
in July 2004
teleconferences: 27 Jul 20 Jul, 6 Jul
14-15 July 2004 in Carlsbad, CA, U.S.A
2nd face-to-face meeting
in June 2004
teleconferences 29Jun, 22 Jun, 15Jun, 8Jun, 1 Jun
in May 2004
teleconferences 25 May, 11 May, 4 May
22-23 April Amsterdam
1st ftf meeting
in April 2004
teleconferences: 15Apr, 8Apr, 1Apr
in March 2004
teleconferences: 17 Mar, 25 Mar
3 March 2004
Querying the Web panel at the W3C Technical Plenary
1 March 2004
RDF Data Access Working Group presentation to the SemWeb IG meeting
25 Feb 2004
W3C Semantic Web Activity is Renewed. RDF Data Access WG is chartered.

See also:

Eric Prud'hommeaux and Dan Connolly
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