Fwd: SKOS is a W3C Recommendation

[Alasdair J G Gray]

Hello,

Good news, SKOS has finally become a Recommendation :)

Now to get the vocabularies document rubber stamped.

Alasdair
(now in sunny Manchester)

>
> Begin forwarded message:
>
>> Resent-From: public-swd-wg at w3.org
>> From: "Ralph R. Swick" <swick at w3.org>
>> Date: 18 August 2009 18:34:20 BDT
>> To: public-swd-wg at w3.org
>> Subject: SKOS is a W3C Recommendation
>>
>> Currently on the W3C home page:
>>
>> From Chaos, Order: SKOS Recommendation Helps Organize Knowledge
>>
>>    2009-08-18: Today W3C announces a new standard that builds a
>> bridge
>>    between the world of knowledge organization systems - including
>>    thesauri, classifications, subject headings, taxonomies, and
>>    folksonomies - and the linked data community, bringing benefits to
>>    both. Libraries, museums, newspapers, government portals,
>>    enterprises, social networking applications, and other communities
>>    that manage large collections of books, historical artifacts, news
>>    reports, business glossaries, blog entries, and other items can
>>    now use Simple Knowledge Organization System (SKOS) to leverage
>>    the power of linked data. The Semantic Web Deployment Working
>>    Group also published today two Group Notes with the
>>    Recommendation, updating the SKOS Primer and SKOS Use Cases and
>>    Requirements. Read the press release [1] and testimonials [2]
>>    and learn more about the Semantic Web Activity.
>>    -- http://www.w3.org/News/2009#item140
>>
>>   [1] http://www.w3.org/2009/07/skos-pr
>>   [2] http://www.w3.org/2009/07/skos-testimonial
>>
>> Enormous thanks to Alistair, Sean, Antoine, Ed, Jon, Daniel, Tom,
>> and Guus for editing these documents and chairing the Group to
>> this achievement.
>>
>>
>
> --
> Sean Bechhofer
> School of Computer Science
> University of Manchester
> sean.bechhofer at manchester.ac.uk
> http://www.cs.manchester.ac.uk/people/bechhofer

Dr Alasdair J G Gray
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