Editing Web Ontology Language (section)

====Web-Ontology Working Group====
{{blockquote|As of Monday, the 31st of May, our working group will officially come to an end. We have achieved all that we were chartered to do, and I believe our work is being quite well appreciated.|James Hendler and Guus Schreiber|''Web-Ontology Working Group: Conclusions and Future Work''<ref name="web-ont" />}}

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) created the ''Web-Ontology Working Group'' as part of their Semantic Web Activity. It began work on November 1, 2001 with co-chairs James Hendler and Guus Schreiber.<ref name="web-ont">{{cite web |url=http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/WebOnt/#L151 |publisher=W3C |title=Web-Ontology (WebOnt) Working Group (Closed) }}</ref> The first working drafts of the [[abstract syntax]], reference and synopsis were published in July 2002.<ref name="web-ont" /> OWL became a formal [[Web standards|W3C recommendation]] on February 10, 2004 and the working group was disbanded on May 31, 2004.<ref name="web-ont" />