2nd International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC200
Upcoming meeting with calls for papers, sponsors, workshop and tutorial proposals, demos, and posters.
A simple, prima facie argument in favor of the Sem
Article by Bijan Parsia, published in Monkeyfist.com.
Annotea project
Live Early Adoption and Demonstration project enhancing the W3C collaboration environment with shared annotations.
Big Fractal Tangle
Daily reflections on the ongoing evolution of the Semantic Web.
Building a Semantic Web Site
Even though the Semantic Web may yet seem a remote dream, there are already tools one can use to make a tiny step forward by building "semantic web sites," which can be much easier to navigate than ordinary sites.
Conceptual Graphs and SWeb
Comparison of Conceptual Graphs as a logic layer to RDF.
cwm
A general purpose data processor written in Python. Core language is RDF, extended to include rules, using RDF/XML or RDF/N3 serializations as required.
EpiSEM-ACTION project
European research project with the goal to develop a software framework for building ontology-based collaboration platforms.
Euler Proof Mechanism
A backward-chaining reasoner based on RDF and OWL, using resolution inference mechanism and following Euler paths.
HP Labs Semantic Web Research
Works to further the vision through research, development and internal promotion. Features technology, tools, resources and contact information.
ICS-FORTH RDFSuite: High-level Scalable Tools for
Tools for managing voluminous RDF description bases.
ILRT Semantic Web Research Group
Tools for storage and query of structured data and applications for digital libraries and project management. From the Institute for Learning and Research Technology at the University of Bristol.
Inference Web
Framework for explaining Semantic Web tasks by storing, exchanging, combining, annotating, comparing and rendering proofs fragments provided by engines embedded in Semantic Web applications.
INTAP Semantic Web Committee
Committee in Japan to produce research and development in the Semantic Web.
Jeff Heflin's Publications
Provide abstracts of downloadable technical papers on various Semantic Web topics like Dynamic Ontologies and Semantic Interoperability.
KAON Ontology and Semantic Web Infrastructure
Open source ontology management infrastructure. It includes a comprehensive tool suite allowing easy ontology creation and management, as well as building ontology-based applications.
Next Web Generation
A Research Group from University of Innsbruck involved in various projects combining and improving recent trends like Web Services, Semantic Portals and Grid Technology.
OntoWare
Collaborative project management and development environment for the Semantic Web
OpenSHORE.org
Semantic Hypertext Object Repository. A repository with a free definable meta model where structured documents can be imported after parsing and transforming into XML.
Personal Data Protection in the Semantic Web
Masters of Engineering Thesis with a focus on PEDAL: Personal Data Access Language.
Platypus Wiki
Uses RDF, RDF Schema, and OWL to create ontologies and manage metadata.
Practical Knowledge Representation for the Web
Survey and analysis of traditional, new, and arising Web standards and how they can be used to represent machine-processable semantics of Web sources.
Retsina Semantic Web Calendar Agent Homepage
Project to develop interoperability between RDF based calendar descriptions and Personal Information Manager Systems such as Microsoft's Outlook.
SEKT Project
European project on developing Semantically Enabled Knowledge Technologies.
Semantic Patterns Language
Explores Universal Semantic Code to help create applications for Semantic WEB.
Semantic Web Applications and Perspectives
The first Italian Workshop on Semantic Web Applications and Perspectives in collaboration with the W3C Italian Office.
Semantic Web Business Special Interest Group
Provides a survey of companies, technologies and products likely to support Semantic Web projects.
Semantic Web Research Group
People from the Maryland Information and Network Dynamics Lab working on the Semantic Web.
Semantic Web roadmap
An attempt to give a high-level plan of the architecture of the Semantic Web by Tim Berners-Lee.
Semantic Weblog
A weblog about PhD research on Semantic Web services and multiagent systems.
SemanticWeb.org
Portal of the Semantic Web Community. Projects, tools and ongoing events.
Semaview
Consulting company aimed towards bringing Semantic Web technology from academia to business.
SemDis - Discovering Complex Relationships in Sema
A research project focused on design, prototyping and evaluation of a system that supports indexing and querying complex semantic relationships from the Web.
Shalil Majithia
Website of Shalil Majithia, researcher of Semantic Web into Service-Oriented Architectures.
SWAD-Europe Thesaurus Activity
Open source systems and guidelines for using thesauri in a semantic web environment.
TAP: Building the Semantic Web
TAPache, a system based on a module for Apache, for easily publishing and consuming data based on RDF.A joint project between Stanford, IBM and W3C.
The Cognitive Web
A human-centric web architecture comprised of semantic markup and fuzzy logics.
The future of the semantic web
Article on the semantic web and its significance for the scientific community by Albert Benschop.
The Languages of the Semantic Web
Article by Uche Ogbuji discusses the limits of today's Web and the challenge of how agents can infer relationships and act on them. Published in "New Architect" e-zine.
The Next Web
Article discusses the changes expected in the Web's next evolution. Written by David M. Ewalt; published in "Information Week."
The Semantic Web
Lengthy descriptive Scientific American article by Tim Berners-Lee, James Hendler and Ora Lassila.
The Semantic Web
A Bristol University project to create a globally-linked database to aid searching. Includes development, research, staff and publications.
The Semantic Web and Libraries
Draft of a column in progress and related feedback.
The Semantic Web Lifts Off
Article on W3C's Semantic Web activity.
The Semantic Web: 1-2-3
An XML hacker discusses XML, RDF and the Semantic Web. Features links to other resources.
The Semantic Web: A Primer
Offers an introduction and discusses technologies and developments. By Edd Dumbill, published in O'Reilly XML.com.
The Semantic Web: It's Whom You Know
Discusses the problems with current notions, popularity ranking and collaborative filtering and suggests next steps. By Andy Oram, published in O'Reilly Network.
The Semantopic Map
Collaborative project to demonstrate the capacities of the technology, while building a useful index of topics and resources. Features general concepts and the relationships between them.
The SEWASIE project: Semantic Webs and AgentS in I
SEWASIE is a collaboration of a number of research groups aiming to design and implement an advanced search engine accessing heterogeneous data sources on the web, using semantic enrichment to provide the basis of structured secure web-based communication.
TOOL: The Open Opinion Layer
Paper exploring the development of a distributed open opinion architecture.
URI Query Agent Model
URIQA proposes an extension to web architecture used to indicate to a web server that it should resolve the specified URI in terms of knowledge about the resource denoted by that URI rather than in terms of a representation of the resource.
W3C Semantic Web Activity Statement
The W3C Semantic Web Activity has been established to serve a leadership role, in both the design of specifications and the open, collaborative development of technology for the Semantic Web.
Weaving the Web
The original design and ultimate destiny of the World Wide Web, by its inventor, Tim Berners-Lee. Features a linked glossary, a time line, errata and an excerpt from Chapter 1.