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This is the homepage of W3C's Semantic Web Interest Group (SWIG), previously known as the RDF Interest Group. It provides a public forum to discuss the use and development of the Semantic Web. See the group's charter for details of its role and purpose.
Meetings:
The Semantic Web Interest Group is designed as a forum to support developers and users of Semantic Web technologies (RDF, OWL, SPARQL, etc). The group in particular serves to help developers create vocabularies and applications to support a Web data marketplace combining harvesting, syndication, metadata and Web Service techniques.
Membership of the group is open to all interested parties who accept the group's charter; W3C Membership is not a prerequisite. To join the group, simply join our discussions; there is no formal list of members.
The Interest Group functions primarily through public email lists hosted by W3C. The main list is <semantic-web@w3.org> (see archives). Other lists sponsored by the Interest Group include www-rdf-logic, www-rdf-calendar, sparql-dev, and www-annotation. The www-rdf-interest (1999-2005) was previously the main list for the IG.) The Mailing List Administrivia page explains how to join these or other W3C discussion lists.
Many in the RDF/SW community make use of Internet Relay Chat (IRC)
channels for collaboration, in particular via the FreeNode network (channel #swig for general SWIG discussion).
Chris Schmidt's Lorebot
provides an RDF-based list of people
currently online in #swig. The #swig
scratchpad, a link annotation system, is provided by Edd Dumbill. It
selectively logs comments made in IRC, via an IRC bot 'dc_swig'
(see chump site for details).
Complete public logs
of the discussions on the #swig channel are also available (in text, html and
rdf flavours), thanks to Dave Beckett of ILRT.
Note: IRC discussion should be considered public (insecure, loggable etc). IRC chats are not a formal mechanism for W3C Interest Group communications and discussion; it may be useful to circulate summaries of IRC discussion to the archived RDF IG mailing lists.
IRC Resources: IRC Help, IRC.org, OpenProjects IRC (please read about freenode: using the network).
The SWIG has looked at various subject areas where "a little semantics goes a long way". Some simple shallow ontologies for concepts shared by many applications can play a very strong role in linking together many applications.
The Friend of a Friend (FOAF) system is one in which people can describe themselves in machine-processable form, including contact details and list of people thy know. Several million FOAF files link together across the web.
Many of these are discussed in a mixtire of email lists, IRC chat, and Wiki.
See also the Semantic Web Deployment which takes on specific efforts in this sort of area.
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