W3C Web Ontology Working Group Activities

Peter F. Patel-Schneider

In the W3C Web Ontology Working Group I created and presented a number of designs for a web ontology language. I made several presentations at the face-to-face meetings of the group. I also prepared a number of documents on the syntax and semantics of OWL, an ontology language for the Web being designed by the working group.

I was the main editor for the semantic definition of OWL, OWL Web Ontology Language: Semantics and Abstract Syntax. I edited several of the other documents on OWL.

W3C OWL Recommendations

• Peter F. Patel-Schneider, Patrick Hayes, and Ian Horrocks. OWL Web Ontology Language Semantics and Abstract Syntax. W3C Recommendation 10 February 2004, http://www.w3.org/TR/owl-semantics/.
• Mike Dean, Guus Schreiber, Sean Bechhofer, Frank van Harmelen, Jim Hendler, Ian Horrocks, Deborah L. McGuinness, Peter F. Patel-Schneider, and Lynn Andrea Stein. OWL Web Ontology Language Reference. W3C Recommendation 10 February 2004, http://www.w3.org/TR/owl-ref/.

Presentations

• A Proposal for the Web Ontology Language. Presented at the first face-to-face meeting of the W3C Web Ontology Working Group, Murray Hill, New Jersey, January 20002.
• Representation and a Proposal to WebOnt. Presented at the first face-to-face meeting of the W3C Web Ontology Working Group, Murray Hill, New Jersey, January 20002.
• Options for the Web Ontology Language. Presented at the second face-to-face meeting of the W3C Web Ontology Working Group, Amsterdam, Netherlands, April 2002.
• Semantics for the Proposed Web Ontology Knowledge Base Language. Presented at the second face-to-face meeting of the W3C Web Ontology Working Group, Amsterdam, Netherlands, April 2002.