The mission of this Working Group is to provide guidance in the form of W3C Technical Reports on issues of practical RDF development and deployment practices in the areas of publishing vocabularies, OWL usage, and integrating RDF with HTML documents.
The Semantic Web Deployment Working Group Charter shows what the W3C has asked this working group to do.
The Semantic Web Best Practices and Deployment Working Group initiated work on some of the items for which this working group is now responsible.
The following W3C Member organizations have appointed participants to this Working Group. [details (member-only)]. To become a participant in the Working Group, please have your W3C Advisory Committee representative appoint you using the join/leave Web forms. This will also automatically subscribe you to the WG mailing list.
The Working Group has invited the following to participate as individual Invited Experts: Jon Phipps (SKOS), Margherita Sini (SKOS), Manu Sporny (RDFa).
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