Semantic Web Timeline
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1997 W3C PICS Next Generation Labels Working Group
1997 Meta Content Framework (MCF) - created by Ramanathan V. Guha. MCF is a direct precursor to RDF.
1998 RDF at W3C
1999 Weaving the Web: The Original Design and Ultimate Destiny of the World Wide Web. Tim Berners-Lee.
2000 OIL in a Nutshell. Dieter Fensel, Ian Horrocks Frank van Harmelen, Stefan Decker, Michael Erdmann, Michel C. A. Klein
2001 OIL: an ontology infrastructure for the Semantic Web. Dieter Fensel, Ian Horrocks, Frank van Harmelen, Deborah McGuiness, Peter F. Patel-Schneider
2001 The Semantic Web. A new form of Web content that is meaningful to computers will unleash a revolution of new possibilities. Scientific American Vol. 284, No. 5, pp34-43, MAY 2001. Tim Berners-Lee, James Hendler and Ora Lassila.