Current XGs (see details):
2008-05-01: W3C launched the Product Modelling Incubator Group today to define a small core of basic classes and properties for product modelling; see the news story.
2008-04-15: The Uncertainty Reasoning for the World Wide Web Incubator Group published their final report.; see the news story.
2008-04-15: The Common Web Language Incubator Group published their final report; see the news story.
2008-04-09: W3C launched the Rich Web Application Backplane Incubator Group today to explore and refine the architecture of a "Rich Web Application Backplane" -- a set of common building blocks for Web applications. (News archive)
2008-03-04: W3C launched the RDB2RDF Incubator Group today to Study Mapping Relational Data into RDF. The mission of this Incubator Group is twofold: (1) to examine and classify existing approaches to mapping relational data into RDF and assess whether standardization is possible and/or necessary in this area, and (2) to examine and classify existing approaches to mapping OWL classes to Relational data, or, more accurately, SQL queries, moving towards the goal of defining a standard in this area. (News archive)
See Past News
To join one of the following Incubator Groups (XGs), please see the instructions on the home page for that XG. You may also consult the IPP home page for information about joining all XGs.
| Group, Charter | Chair | Start Date | End Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Emotion Markup Language (charter) |
Marc Schröder, German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) GmbH | 29 November 2007 | 20 November 2008 |
| Emergency Information Interoperability Framework (charter) |
Renato Iannella, NICTA, and Chamindra de Silva, Lanka Software Foundation/Virtusa | 11 December 2007 | 1 December 2008 |
| SWS Testbed (charter) |
Charles Petrie (Stanford University) and Amit Sheth (University of Georgia) | 5 March 2007 | 4 December 2008 |
| RDB2RDF (charter) |
Ashok Malhotra, Oracle | 4 March 2008 | 7 February 2009 |
| Rich Web Application Backplane (charter) |
Charlie Wiecha, IBM | 9 April 2008 | 8 April 2009 |
| Product Modelling (charter) |
Michel Böhms, TNO | 1 May 2008 | 30 April 2009 |
See Closed XGs
The W3C Incubator Activity fosters rapid development, on a time scale of a year or less, of new Web-related concepts. Target concepts include innovative ideas for specifications, guidelines, and applications that are not (or not yet) clear candidates as Web standards developed through the more thorough process afforded by the W3C Recommendation Track. Advantages of the Incubator Activity include:
The Incubator Activity is being operated on an experimental basis, and will be reviewed periodically with the W3C Membership. If it proves to be useful, all or elements of the concepts being tested could be incorporated into future versions of the W3C Process Document.
2007-12-11: W3C launched the Emergency Information Interoperability Framework Incubator Group today to review and analyse the current state-of-the-art in vocabularies used in emergency management functions and to investigate the path forward via an emergency management systems information interoperability framework. (News archive)
2007-11-29: W3C launched the Emotion Markup Language Incubator Group today with a new charter. (News archive)
2007-10-31: W3C published two Incubator Reports from the Geospatial XG titled Geospatial Vocabulary and Geospatial Ontologies. (News archive)
2007-08-16: W3C published an Incubator Report from the Multimedia Semantics XG titled Image Annotation on the Semantic Web. (News archive)
2007-07-25: W3C published an Incubator Report from the Multimedia Semantics XG titled Multimedia Vocabularies on the Semantic Web. (News archive)
2007-02-20: W3C published the Final Report of the (First) W3C Emotion Incubator Group. (News archive)
2007-02-05: W3C launches the Uncertainty Reasoning for the World Wide Web Incubator Group. (News archive)
2007-02-05: W3C launches the SWS Testbed Incubator Group. (News archive)
2007-02-20: W3C published the Final Report of the W3C Content Label Incubator Group: W3C Content Labels. (News archive)
2006-11-06: W3C launches the Common Web Language Incubator Group. (News archive)
2006-07-19: W3C launches the Emotion Incubator Group. (News archive)
2006-07-05: W3C launches the Geospatial Incubator Group. (News archive)
2006-04-25: W3C launches the Multimedia Semantics Incubator Group. (News archive)
2006-02-08: W3C launches the Incubator Activity. Read the press release. (News archive)
| Group, Charter | XGR | Start Date | End Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Emotion (charter) |
Final Report of the W3C Emotion Incubator Group | 19 July 2006 | 10 July 2007 |
| Content Label (charter) |
W3C Content Labels | 8 February 2006 | 20 February 2007 |
| Multimedia Semantics (charter) |
Image Annotation on the Semantic Web, Multimedia Vocabularies on the Semantic Web | 25 April 2006 | 16 August 2007 |
| Geospatial (charter) |
Geospatial Vocabulary and Geospatial Ontologies | 05 July 2006 | 31 October 2007 |
| Uncertainty Reasoning for the World Wide Web (charter) |
Uncertainty Reasoning for the World Wide Web | 5 March 2007 | 22 April 2008 |
| Common Web Language (charter) |
Common Web Language | 6 November 2006 | 1 May 2008 |