creating a strong infrastructure for the Semantic Web, whilst working with various members of the Web community to ensure that data remains interoperable...
SWAG was proposed and set up in January 2001 by William Loughborough, Sean B. Palmer, Seth Russell, and Aaron Swartz. Its aims are to facilitate Semantic Web interoperability by working on the following projects:-
The central project was the creation of the Semantic Web dictionary at webns.net. By creating this dictionary, browsable by RDF bots/scutters and humans alike, SWAG aimed to provide an accessible respository of predicates classes and other information from schemata on the Semantic Web. This would be very useful for creators of new schemata (to check to see if they were reinventing the wheel or not), users of schemata (to check to find out whether a required term already exists or not), and creators of programs.
Its achievments so far have been:-
Unfortunately, after a series of setbacks such as data loss on the main server, and rejection of a paper to the SWWS conference, the group is currently (April 2003) in a semi-hiatus. Work still continues scarcely on the SWAG mailing list, however. Note that there were four group emails in 2002 compared to one thousand and twenty two in 2001.
More information about SWAG is available from the following sources:-