References and Background Reading

Database and Information Systems Research for Semantic Web and Enterprises, Website for last Spring’s NSF workshop on Databases and the Semantic Web; includes paper downloads, and a workshop summary.

http://lsdis.cs.uga.edu/SemNSF/

Research Challenges and Perspectives of the Semantic Web, Report of the European Commission – National Science Foundation Strategic Research Workshop, Sophia, 2001

http://www.ercim.org/EU-NSF/Semweb.pdf

Inference Engines for the Semantic Web

http://www.semanticweb.org/inference.html

An excellent and short overview of the choices available for inference on the semantic web, with a brief discussion of tradeoffs involves, and extensive references.

Semantic Web Annotation and Authoring

http://km.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de/annotation/index.html

A portal into issues surrounding annotation, with links to annotation tools.

Markup Languages – Comparisons and Examples, Yolanda Gil and Varun Ratnakar

http://trellis.semanticweb.org/expect/web/semanticweb/comparison.html

A comparison of the features of XML Schema, RDF, and DAML.

XML Query Languages – Experiences and Exemplars

http://www-db.research.bell-labs.com/user/simeon/xquery.html

This paper identifies essential features of an XML query language by examining four existing query languages: XML-QL, YATL, Lorel, and XQL. The authors are primarily from the database community.

Requirements for a Web Ontology Language, W3C Working Draft, March 7, 2002

http://www.w3.org/TR/webont-req/

Web Service Description Requirements, W3C Working Draft, April 29, 2002

http://www.w3.org/TR/ws-desc-reqs/

Web Ontology Issue Status

http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/WebOnt/webont-issues.html

A list of (primarily low-level) unresolved language issues.