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The Semantic Web is a project that intends to create a universal medium for information exchange by putting documents with computer-processable meaning (semantics) on the World Wide Web. Currently under the direction of the Web's creator, Tim Berners-Lee of the World Wide Web Consortium, the Semantic Web extends the Web through the use of standards, markup languages and related processing tools.

Potential benefits of the Semantic Web


Humans are capable of using the Web, say, to find the Swedish word for "car," to reserve a library book, or to search for the cheapest DVD and buy it. But if you asked a computer to do the same thing, it wouldn't know where to start. That is because web pages are designed to be read by people, not machines. The Semantic Web is a project aimed to make web pages understandable by computers, so that they can search websites and perform actions in a standardized way.

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2nd International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC2003) - Upcoming meeting with calls for papers, sponsors, workshop and tutorial proposals, demos, and posters.
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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.
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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.

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Euler Proof Mechanism - A backward-chaining reasoner based on RDF and OWL, using resolution inference mechanism and following Euler paths.

Gnowsis - A framework for a personal semantic desktop system.

HP Labs Semantic Web Research - Works to further the vision through research, development and internal promotion. Features technology, tools, resources and contact information.
Meta Description: [ Solutions and Services research at HP Labs, the advanced research center for Hewlett-Packard. ]

ICS-FORTH RDFSuite: High-level Scalable Tools for the Semantic Web - 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.

IsaViz Overview - A visual authoring tool for RDF.

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.
Meta Description: [ KAON is an open-source ontology management infrastructure targeted for business applications. It includes a comprehensive tool suite allowing easy ontology creation and management and provides a framework for building ontology-based applications. An important focus of KAON is scalable and effici... ]

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.
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OntoWare - Collaborative project management and development environment for the Semantic Web
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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.
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Personal Data Protection in the Semantic Web - Masters of Engineering Thesis with a focus on PEDAL: Personal Data Access Language.
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Platypus Wiki - Uses RDF, RDF Schema, and OWL to create ontologies and manage metadata.
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Semantic Patterns Language - Explores Universal Semantic Code to help create applications for Semantic WEB.
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TopQuadrant - Company that providing consulting and tools for architectural design and implementation of Semantic Technology Solutions with an emphasis on Ontology Engineering.

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.

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