W3C issues Web Ontology Language candidate for recommendation

InfoWorld reports that the W3C has released the Web Ontology Language candidate for recommendation. This is a big step towards a more semantic web, and will prove to be tremendously useful to IAs working in large projects.

What is an ontology? According to Jim Hendler, co-chairman of the W3C Web Ontology Working Group, it is “the definition of a set of terms and how they relate to each other for a particular domain and that can be used on the Web in a number of different ways.”

August 19, 2003 | Archived in Information Architecture