Web Services Directory

SOAP is governed by the World Wide Web Consortium. Full information on the specification of the standard can be found at the W3C site.

WSDL is governed by the World Wide Web Consortium. Full information on the specification of the standard can be found at the W3C site.

Official home page of the W3C Scalabel Vector Graphics format

Home page for the W3C Semantic Web project. Starting point for information, articles and the summary of W3C projects and activities.

W3C home page for XKMS. The XML Key Management Specification (XKMS) comprises two parts -- the XML Key Information Service Specification (X-KISS) and the XML Key Registration Service Specification (X-KRSS).

XPath is a language for addressing parts of an XML document, designed to be used by both XSLT and XPointer.

WC3 home page for RDF. The Resource Description Framework (RDF) integrates a variety of applications from library catalogs and world-wide directories to syndication and aggregation of news, software, and content to personal collections of music, photos, and events using XML as an interchange syntax. The RDF specifications provide a lightweight ontology system to support the exchange of knowledge on the Web.

The Web Ontology Working Group is chartered to build upon the RDF Core work a language for defining structured web based ontologies which will provide richer integration and interoperability of data among descriptive communities.

The mission of this working group is to develop an XML compliant syntax used for representing the signature of Web resources and portions of protocol messages (anything referencable by a URI) and procedures for computing and verifying such signatures. This is a joint Working Group of the IETF and W3C