Part of a series on
Semantic Web |
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| Background |
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The World Wide Web, The Internet, Databases, Semantic networks, Knowledge bases, Ontologies
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| Sub-topics |
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Linked Data, Data Web, Hyperdata, Dereferenceable URIs, Ontologies, Rule bases, Data Spaces
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| Related Topics |
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Web 2.0, Web 3.0, Plain Old Semantic HTML, Search engine optimization, Open Database Connectivity, References, Information architecture, Knowledge management, Topic Maps, XML, Description logic
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| Standards |
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W3C based
RDF, OWL, URI, HTTP, SPARQL, GRDDL, RDFS
Common Vocabularies
FOAF, SIOC, Dublin Core, SKOS
Semantic Annotation
RDFa, Microformats, eRDF
Rules
Rule Interchange Format, Semantic Web Rule Language
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| People |
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Tim Berners-Lee, James Hendler, Ora Lassila, Nigel Shadbolt, Wendy Hall, Kingsley Idehen, Dan Brickley, Libby Miller, Dave Beckett
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| Key Semantic-Web Organizations |
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W3C, WRSI, MIT, OpenLink Software, Talis Group, Oracle , ClearForest, University of Southampton, DERI
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The Rule Interchange Format (RIF) is a W3C recommendation-track effort to develop a format for interchange of rules in rule-based systems on the semantic web. The goal is to create an interchange format for different rule languages and inference engines. The RIF initiative is closely related to Ontologies. Whereas ontologies describe distributed information objects in a computer executable manner, rules in this sense combine such information and derive new information on top of ontologies.
History
The RIF working group was chartered in late 2005. Among its goals was drawing in members of the commercial rules marketplace. The working group started with more than 50 members and two chairs drawn from industry, Christian de Saint-Marie of ILOG, and Chris Welty of IBM.
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