W3C Semantic Sensor Network Incubator Working Group meets

The W3C's incubator activity to pursue device ontology investigations is under way.

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) just began a new incubator working group to consider development of ontologies and semantics for devices. The group's charter outlines two goals:

  • the development of ontologies for describing sensors, and
  • the extension of the Sensor Markup Language (SML), one of the four SWE languages, to support semantic annotations.

The charter highlights the work done by the Device Ontology Working Group at MMI, and intends to reuse much of this work. For its part, MMI's Device Ontology group will be following the SSN-WG project closely; John Graybeal is serving as an Invited Expert on the W3C activity.

The W3C team met this week, and started a review of existing efforts working on device ontologies, device semantics, and related material. MMI will coordinate its own researches and forward it to the team for inclusion.

To participate in the W3C activity, W3C membership is required. See the charter for more information.

Posted April 10th, 2009 by graybeal
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