Recovered from the Wayback Machine.
W3C is pleased to announce the advancement of the Resource Description Framework (RDF) to Proposed Recommendation.
Relieved more like it as these long awaited specifications finally reach the “proposed recommended” state, one short step before becoming formal recommendations.
These documents (RDF/XML Syntax Specification, RDF Vocabulary Description Language 1.0, RDF Semantics, RDF Primer, RDF Test Cases, and RDF: Concepts and Abstract Syntax) represent a great deal of time and effort on the part of the RDF working group members, who are to be congratulated in finishing this important milestone.
In addition to the RDF documents, the OWL Web Ontology Language also made proposed recommendation status. Someone at the W3C must have said: let’s get this show on the road, children.
Semantic Web, or should I say, semantic web, here we come.
(Thanks to Dave Beckett and Danny Ayers for heads up.)