OWL Working Group

The OWL Web Ontology Language is designed for use by applications that need to process the content of information instead of just presenting information to humans. OWL facilitates greater machine interpretability of Web content than that supported by XML, RDF, and RDF Schema (RDF-S) by providing additional expressive power along with a formal semantics.

The group's work is complete with the publication of OWL 2 (Second Edition). There may be new Errata and discussion on public-owl-dev@w3.org.

Second Edition Deliverables

See Documentation Roadmap for more details

First Edition Deliverables

Editors' Drafts (Wiki)

• Document Overview
• Structural Specification and Functional-Style Syntax
• Mapping to RDF Graphs
• Direct Semantics
• RDF-Based Semantics
• Conformance
• Profiles
• Primer
• New Features and Rationale
• Quick Reference Guide
• XML Serialization
• RDF Plain Literal

• Manchester Syntax
• Data Range Extension

Inputs

• OWL 1
• OWL 1.1
• OWLED space
• Issues
  • OWLED issues list
  • WebOnt WG issues list

Membership

• List of participants (Member-only)
• List of participants (public)

Charter, Meeting Records, and History

• The OWL Working Group Charter shows what the W3C has asked this working group to do.
• Meeting minutes and agendas are recorded here.
• Other records, including editors' drafts, issue list, and comments/responses
• History

W3C Working Group Resources

• W3C Guidebook — the Art of Consensus Guide W3C member confidential
• W3C Editor's Home Page
• W3C Process Document (the W3C governing document)
• W3C Groups, Participants (dbwg) W3C member confidential

OWL 1.0 Resources

• OWL Specifications
• OWL Tutorials
• Papers and Presentations
• Projects and Applications
• Ontologies

Staff

• Email chairs+staff at team-owl-chairs@w3.org
• Ian Horrocks (email) , Oxford University, Chair
  
• Alan Ruttenberg (email) , Science Commons, Chair
  
• Sandro Hawke (email), W3C, Staff contact
• Ivan Herman (email), W3C, alternate staff contact, Semantic Web Activity Lead