Rule Interchange Format (RIF) is Now a W3C Recommendation Standard
- A new standard for the interoperation and interchange between
various rule languages and rule engines
- A concrete XML serialization language for, e.g., model-based
languages
such as OMG PRR, OMG SBVR, and the RIF RuleML subfamily of the
overarching
RuleML language family
- A standard for rules on the (Semantic) Web supporting data
integration,
and for business rules, making businesses more agile
- The new W3C RIF recommendation standard is to be featured at the
RuleML
Semantic Rules track at SemTech 2010 and at RuleML-2010 colocated
with the
Business Rules Forum
22 June 2010
Today W3C published a new standard for building rule systems on the
Web.
Declarative rules allow the integration and transformation of data
from
multiple sources in a distributed, transparent and scalable manner.
The new
standard, called Rule Interchange Format (RIF), was developed with
participation from the Business Rules, Logic Programming, and
Semantic Web
communities to provide interoperability and portability between
different
systems using declarative technologies. Corporate Semantic Web at the
Freie
Universitaet Berlin (www.corporate-semantic-web.de) actively
contributed and
co-edited several of the standards of RIF.
W3C News announcement: W3C RIF Supports Data Integration, Enterprise
Agility
http://www.w3.org/News/2010#entry-8839
The new RIF recommendation is part of the Semantic Web layer cake
http://www.w3.org/2007/03/layerCake.png
and, via the RIF RuleML Rosetta Ring, it can be used as a subfamily
of
the overarching RuleML language family which among others contains
SWRL
(RuleML+OWL), Reaction RuleML (including rule-based Complex Event
Processing), Fuzzy RuleML, etc.
http://ruleml.org/
The new RIF standard will be featured at the RuleML Semantic Rules
track at
the Semantic Technologies conference in San Francisco
http://semtech2010.semanticuniverse.com/rules
and at the 4th International Web Rule Symposium -- RuleML-2010
colocated
with the Business Rules Symposium in Washington DC
http://2010.ruleml.org
To learn more about RIF you can start with the Overview:
http://www.w3.org/TR/rif-overview/
or the FAQ:
http://www.w3.org/2005/rules/wiki/RIF_FAQ
Further information:
MITnews article, which provides a nice high-level view, written for
an
audience who has never heard of the Semantic Web:
http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2010/semantic-web-0622.html
Handbook of Research on Emerging Rule-Based Languages and
Technologies: Open
Solutions and Approaches
http://www.igi-global.com/bookstore/TitleDetails.aspx?TitleId=465
(free sample chapter about Rule Markup Languages and Semantic Web
Rule
Languages available from the menue)
Press Contact:
Sebastian Krebs
Freie Universitaet Berlin
Department of Computer Science and Mathematics
Institute of Computer Science
Corporate Semantic Web
Königin-Luise-Straße 24/26
14195 Berlin
Phone: +49-30-838 75256
email: sekrebs@zedat.fu-berlin.de
