The W3C are stepping up work on the
Semantic Web
once more. They have recently launched
a new Semantic Web Activity area This interview with
Tim Berners-Lee gives a useful overview of the directions the W3C are taking:
There are also a lot of Members who have serious need for ontologies. There’s a
clearly understood need for ontologies in a large number of industries, and a ripe
need for standardization, with things like OIL and DARPA’s
DAML effort. We’re
expecting ontology work to come into W3C as a Working Group quite soon.
