The Protocol for Web Description Resources (POWDER) Working Group published four Working Drafts today. The purpose of the Protocol for Web Description Resources (POWDER) is to provide a means for individuals or organizations to describe a group of resources through the publication of machine-readable metadata. Description Resources (Last Call); which details the creation and lifecycle of Description Resources (DRs), which encapsulate metadata Grouping of Resources (Last Call); which describes how sets of IRIs can be ...

The “RDFa in XHTML: Syntax and Processing” document has been translated into French by Jean-Jacques Solari under the title “RDFa dans XHTML — Syntaxe et traitement”.

Yahoo! has just published a SW Case Study. The Case Study describes the SearchMonkey application that reuses structural data embedded in Web pages (in, eg, RDFa, eRDF, or microformats) to produce more compelling search results.

The W3C Semantic Web Deployment Working Group and the XHTML2 Working Group published the W3C Recommendation RDFa in XHTML: Syntax and Processing. This specification allows publishers to express structured data on the Web within XHTML, enabling a new world of user functionality, allowing users to transfer structured data between applications and web sites, and allowing browsing applications to improve the user experience. For those looking for an introduction to the use of RDFa and some ...

The Semantic Web Deployment Working Group has published the Group Note of Best Practice Recipes for Publishing RDF Vocabularies. This document describes best practice recipes for publishing vocabularies or ontologies on the Web (in RDF Schema or OWL). It is intended for the creators and maintainers of vocabularies in RDFS and OWL (vocabulary and ontology are used interchangeably in the context of this specification). It provides step-by-step instructions for publishing vocabularies on the Web, giving ...