Open Directory - Reference: Knowledge Management: Knowledge Representation: Semantic Web
See also: This category in other languages: - Live early adoption and demonstration project enhancing the W3C collaboration environment with shared annotations. - Daily reflections on the ongoing evolution of the Semantic Web. - A blog about digital advertising, cloud computing, social networks, collective intelligence, the semantic web, and the transition between our analogue past and digital future - Paper discusses how syntactic (keyword-based) search can be extended to semantic (concept-based) search while preserving efficient retrieval models and data structures of the syntactic search. - Comparison of Conceptual Graphs as a logic layer to RDF. - A simple browser for navigating the Semantic Web. The browser renders all information, that it can find on the Semantic Web about a specific resource, as an HTML page. - A backward-chaining reasoner based on RDF and OWL, using resolution inference mechanism and following Euler paths. - A social bookmarking tool which allows people to tag webpages with Wikipedia terms. - Homepage of a Semantic Web textbook, featuring free slide sets of tutorials on semantic technologies. - Connects people and communities by with semantic technology. It enables to share and distribute knowledge. - A framework for a personal semantic desktop system. - Works to further the vision through research, development and internal promotion. Features technology, tools, resources and contact information. - Distributed higher order logic inferencing store and framework for the Semantic Web (Web 3.0) implemented in Python and released as Open Source. - Tools for managing voluminous RDF description bases. - 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. - Internet Search Environment Number is a newly proposed standard for organizing search environments on the Internet. The foundation aims at promoting it. - Framework for explaining Semantic Web tasks by storing, exchanging, combining, annotating, comparing and rendering proofs fragments provided by engines embedded in Semantic Web applications. - A visual authoring tool for RDF. - Provide abstracts of downloadable technical papers on various Semantic Web topics like Dynamic Ontologies and Semantic Interoperability. - Open source ontology management infrastructure. Includes a tool suite allowing easy ontology creation and management, as well as building ontology-based applications. - Offers Semantic Web tools for download, including: Jena .NET, RDF Buddy and Triple Machine. - Collaborative project management and development environment for the Semantic Web - A consultancy specialising in digital media technical strategy with a focus on semantic web publishing architecture, ontology modelling and text analysis for semantic annotation. - An ontology visualisation / semantic web experiment. Demo's of semantic javascript widgets. - Website of a Semantic Web application (Ontoolsearch) that makes use of ontologies for searching software tools in the learning domain. - Semantic Hypertext Object Repository. A repository with a free definable meta model where structured documents can be imported after parsing and transforming into XML. - Uses RDF, RDF Schema, and OWL to create ontologies and manage metadata. - Survey and analysis of traditional, new, and arising Web standards and how they can be used to represent machine-processable semantics of Web sources. - Prescient Software provides bespoke semantic web software and knowledge management tools to a range of business users. - European project on developing Semantically Enabled Knowledge Technologies. - A semantic search engine for biological knowledge by the University of Arizona. - Aims to establish Semantics as a core pillar of modern computer engineering. - SUPER (Semantics Utilised for Process Management within and between Enterprises) offers ontology tools for download and has PHD programms. - A research project focused on design, prototyping and evaluation of a system that supports indexing and querying complex semantic relationships from the Web. - Provides consulting and modeling for architectural design employing Semantic Technology in the creation of large enterprise ontologies. - A blog and community about the Semantic Web, Natural Language Processing, Information Retrieval, and related topics. - This is an initiative by the European Commission to support the data exchange of pan-European eGovernment projects. It features a repository for semantic interoperability assets that are open for reuse in other projects, e.g. XML schema or multi-lingual taxonomies. - Explores Universal Semantic Code to help create applications for Semantic WEB. - The Business Special Interest Group provides a survey of companies, technologies and products likely to support Semantic Web projects. - Provides companies, institutions and organizations with professional services related to the Semantic Web. [A-1160 Wien] - Experiment in applying and assembling existing Semantic Web technologies in one day. - Online Journal on Semantic Web research. Listed in the ACM Digital Library. - People from the Maryland Information and Network Dynamics Lab working on the Semantic Web. - A non-profit organisation incorporated in Karlsruhe, Germany for the purpose of promoting and exchanging scholarly work in Semantic Web and related fields throughout the world. - Provides reviews, news, case studies on Semantic Web technology. Presents the history, definitions, categories and applications. - A weblog about PhD research on Semantic Web services and multiagent systems. - News and analysis related to the Semantic Web. Focus on the transition from academia to mainstream consumer, business and government use. - Blog on Semantic technologies and their business application - Social recommendation and personalization technology for retail and media websites. - Paper exploring the development of a distributed open opinion architecture. - A human-centric web architecture comprised of semantic markup and fuzzy logics. - Article on the semantic web and its significance for the scientific community by Dr. Albert Benschop (University of Amsterdam). - 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. - A Bristol University project to create a globally-linked database to aid searching. Includes development, research, staff and publications. - An XML hacker discusses XML, RDF and the Semantic Web. Features links to other resources. - Company that providing consulting and tools for architectural design and implementation of Semantic Technology Solutions with an emphasis on Ontology Engineering. - URIQA proposes an extension to the HTTP 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. Offers an additional Semantic Web Service Interface. - 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. - 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. - Blog about web mining. Contains all levels articles about web mining and web knowledge exploration. Source of ideas and research results. - 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. - About a flash application that provides immediate access to facts. It visualizes information and helpsdiscover relations. Furthermore, it allows to collect interesting bits of information. - Offers live, embeddable information summaries from sites which use RDF, RDFa or Microformats. - Article on W3C's Semantic Web activity. (October 01, 2002) - Article by Uche Ogbuji discusses the limits of today's Web and the challenge of how agents can infer relationships and act on them. Originally published in the "New Architect" e-zine. Explains the basics of RDF. (June 01, 2002) - Discusses the problems with current notions, popularity ranking and collaborative filtering and suggests next steps. By Andy Oram, published in O'Reilly Network. (April 19, 2002) - 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. (May 02, 2001) - Lengthy descriptive Scientific American article by Tim Berners-Lee, James Hendler and Ora Lassila. (May 01, 2001) - Offers an introduction and discusses technologies and developments. By Edd Dumbill, published in O'Reilly XML.com. (November 01, 2000) - An attempt to give a high-level plan of the architecture by Tim Berners-Lee. (September 14, 1998)