W3C Holon Graph Community Group
We Need Supporters to Launch
Update: We ended up with more than forty people supporting with the first twenty minutes, well over the necessary five minimum. As of now, the W3C Holon Graph Community Group is LIVE! If you are interested in participating, go to the linked page and Join the Group. I have some work I need to do over the weekend, but I’ll get together a founding meeting and start updating the blog within the next week or so.
The W3C Holon Graph Community Group is now proposed — and we need your support to launch.
After months of development, the proposal for the Holon Graph Community Group at W3C is live as of today.
A holon is an entity that is also a system — a concept Arthur Koestler introduced in The Ghost in the Machine that turns out to map beautifully onto the RDF 1.2 stack. A holon graph formalises this using the tools we already have: RDF for the knowledge graph, SHACL for boundary constraints, SPARQL for projection, Prov-O for event and context tracking.
The result is a graph-based state machine with applications across:
🗺️ Mapping and GIS
🏭 Supply chain and operations
🤖 AI grounding and conversational systems
🎮 Games, simulations, and narrative structures
🏛️ Decision support and digital twins
The Community Group will develop holon envelope ontologies, architectural patterns, and usage specifications — and help developers build holon-native applications on the W3C stack.
To launch, we need 5 supporters. If you work in knowledge graphs, semantic web, ontology, digital twins, or AI grounding and want to help shape this space at a standards level, I’d love your support.
Questions? Drop them in the comments or message me directly.
#KnowledgeGraphs #SemanticWeb #RDF #W3C #HolonGraph #Ontology #DigitalTwin #AI
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Maybe when w3c makes their password retrieval less obnoxious. Otherwise I'd gladly support it.
Kurt, thank for setting up this working group. I talked to Ora Lassila at KGC Conference last month and send him a copy of the spec. I have not heard from him yet. He told me after the publication of RDF 1.2 specs at end of the year, the RDF specification will be open like HTML and contributions to RDF standard will be easier to integrated. My hope is that the holonic extension to RDF will be part of RDF spec down the road. I truly believe that it needs to be part of the RDF fabric, thus being agnostic of any domain.
I just join the group. I am not so familiar with the W3C process related to Community WG but I will do my best to stay engaged as much as possible.