RIF Working Group
From RIF
The mission of the Rule Interchange Format (RIF) Working Group is to produce W3C Recommendations for rules interchange on the semantic web
Events
ATTENTION: March Telecons will be one hour earlier than usual in Europe
- F2F10 26-28 May, 2008, Galway
- Telecon 1 April 2008
- PROPOSED: Publish all documents as last call
- Telecon 25 March 2008 Agenda Minutes (draft)
- RESOLVED: Use fully-striped syntax for next WD (option 3 from here)
- Telecon 18 March 2008 Agenda Minutes
- RESOLVED: Open an issue on terminology around terms/functions/predicates and include an editorial comment in WD2 asking for feedback, but keep "atom" and "expr" for this draft.
- RESOLVED: remove nested Foralls for BLD WD2. Maybe we'll get some use case some day for putting them back in.
- Telecon 11 March 2008 Agenda Minutes
- RESOLVED: BLD builtins are not sensitive to order of evaluation (closing issue-40).
- RESOLVED: Approve Michael's alternative proposal on lists and update FLD+BLD syntax/semantics accordingly to reflect that and the previous resolution on lists
WG Contacts
- Email chairs+staff at team-rif-chairs@w3.org
- Chris Welty (email) , IBM Research, Chair
- Christian de Sainte Marie (email), ILOG, Chair
- Sandro Hawke (email), W3C, Staff contact
Info
- RIF Charter
- All Working Group participants are automatically subscribed to the group's main discussion list public-rif-wg@w3.org (public ). Non-participants may not subscribe to or post to the list, but they may read the archives on the web archive (including using the RSS feed of the archives).
- The group will also use the Member-confidential administrative list, member-rif-wg@w3.org (member-visible archive).
- Comments from the public to the Working Group are welcome at public-rif-comments@w3.org (public archive).
- The RIF Working group is part of the W3C Semantic Web activity
Deliverables
| UCR | Core | BLD | FLD | RDF+OWL | DTB | PRD | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wiki Page | UCR | Core | BLD | FLD | SWC | DTB | PRD |
| Latest Public Snapshot (TR) | 2006 | 30-Oct | 30-Oct | none | 30-Oct | none | none |
| Next TR Expected | 18-Apr | 18-Apr | 18-Apr | 18-Apr | 18-Apr | ||
| Latest Internal Snapshot | none | none | 19-Feb | 19-Feb | 19-Feb | none | 19-Feb |
| Issues/Actions | tracker | x | tracker | x | tracker | x | tracker |
Other Documents
- Arch (working version of the RIF Architecture draft)
- Implementation Plans
- Glossary
Older Task Areas
- Design Principles and Design Constraints
- Rulesystem Arrangement Framework (aka RIF-RAF)
- OWL Compatibility and RDF Compatibility
- Extensible_Design
Related work
- OMG PRR (beta 1 specification) (dated 4 November 2007)
- Comments are welcome, and should be directed to issues@omg.org by December 15, 2007.
Group Membership and Joining
The group holds telecons weekly and has 2-4 face-to-face meetings each year. See Meetings.
- List of participants (Member-only)
- list of participants (public)
- Join or quit the group
If you want to be involved without joining the Working Group, you are encouraged to review and comment on the Working Drafts as they become available. Feedback from people actually implementing the specifications is especially valuable.
Charter, Meeting Records, and History
The RIF Working Group Charter shows what the W3C has asked this working group to do. Meeting minutes and agendas are recorded here.
- Information about Meetings
- RIF WG Actions and issues tracker
- Record of WG Resolutions
- RIF common terms and glossary (these should be merged).
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
Staff
- Email chairs+staff at team-rif-chairs@w3.org
- Chris Welty (email) , IBM Research, Chair
- Christian de Sainte Marie (email), ILOG, Chair
- Sandro Hawke (email), W3C, Staff contact
