Will W3C be standardizing any particular ontologies?
In general, ontologies should be created and maintained by various, specialized communities. The preference of W3C is to let these other communities develop their own ontologies; this is the case for well known ontologies like the Dublin Core, FOAF, DOAP, etc. There are cases, however, when ontologies are developed at W3C. This is the case when, for example, another W3C technology needs its own, specialized ontology (EARL is a good example), when W3C feels that the existence of a particular ontology is crucial for the advancement of the Semantic Web, or when the community prefers to use, for example, the facilities offered by the Incubator Activity of W3C.
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