Web Directory

» 2nd International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC2003)
   Upcoming meeting with calls for papers, sponsors, workshop and tutorial proposals, demos, and posters.
   http://iswc2003.semanticweb.org/

» Annotea Project
   Live early adoption and demonstration project enhancing the W3C collaboration environment with shared annotations.
   http://www.w3.org/2001/Annotea/

» Big Fractal Tangle
   Daily reflections on the ongoing evolution of the Semantic Web.
   http://bigfractaltangle.com

» 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.
   http://www.xml.com/lpt/a/2001/05/02/semanticwebsite.html

» Conceptual Graphs and SWeb
   Comparison of Conceptual Graphs as a logic layer to RDF.
   http://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/CG.html

» Euler Proof Mechanism
   A backward-chaining reasoner based on RDF and OWL, using resolution inference mechanism and following Euler paths.
   http://www.agfa.com/w3c/euler/

» Gnowsis
   A framework for a personal semantic desktop system.
   http://www.gnowsis.com/

» HP Labs Semantic Web Research
   Works to further the vision through research, development and internal promotion. Features technology, tools, resources and contact information.
   http://www.hpl.hp.com/semweb/

» ICS-FORTH RDFSuite: High-level Scalable Tools for the Semantic Web
   Tools for managing voluminous RDF description bases.
   http://139.91.183.30:9090/RDF/

» 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.
   http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/discovery/

» 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.
   http://iw.stanford.edu

» IsaViz Overview
   A visual authoring tool for RDF.
   http://www.w3.org/2001/11/IsaViz/

» Jeff Heflin's Publications
   Provide abstracts of downloadable technical papers on various Semantic Web topics like Dynamic Ontologies and Semantic Interoperability.
   http://www.cse.lehigh.edu/~heflin/pubs/

» KAON Ontology and Semantic Web Infrastructure
   Open source ontology management infrastructure. Includes a tool suite allowing easy ontology creation and management, as well as building ontology-based applications.
   http://kaon.semanticweb.org/

» OntoWare
   Collaborative project management and development environment for the Semantic Web
   http://ontoware.org

» 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.
   http://www.openshore.org

» Platypus Wiki
   Uses RDF, RDF Schema, and OWL to create ontologies and manage metadata.
   http://platypuswiki.sourceforge.net/

» 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.
   http://www.cs.vu.nl/~frankh/postscript/IJCAI99-III.html

» SEKT Project
   European project on developing Semantically Enabled Knowledge Technologies.
   http://www.sekt-project.com/

» SWAD-Europe Thesaurus Activity
   Open source systems and guidelines for using thesauri in a semantic web environment.
   http://www.w3c.rl.ac.uk/SWAD/thesaurus.html

» SemDis - Discovering Complex Relationships in Semantic Web
   A research project focused on design, prototyping and evaluation of a system that supports indexing and querying complex semantic relationships from the Web.
   http://lsdis.cs.uga.edu/proj/SemDis/

» Semantic Patterns Language
   Explores Universal Semantic Code to help create applications for Semantic WEB.
   http://sempl.net

» Semantic Web Applications and Perspectives
   The first Italian Workshop on Semantic Web Applications and Perspectives in collaboration with the W3C Italian Office.
   http://semanticweb.deit.univpm.it/swap2004/

» Semantic Web In One Day
   Experiment in applying and assembling existing Semantic Web technologies in one day.
   http://km.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de/projects/swsc

» Semantic Web Research Group
   People from the Maryland Information and Network Dynamics Lab working on the Semantic Web.
   http://www.mindswap.org/

» Semantic Web Roadmap
   An attempt to give a high-level plan of the architecture by Tim Berners-Lee.
   http://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/Semantic.html

» Semantic Weblog
   A weblog about PhD research on Semantic Web services and multiagent systems.
   http://www.rundom.com/semantic/

» TOOL: The Open Opinion Layer
   Paper exploring the development of a distributed open opinion architecture.
   http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue7_7/masum/index.html

» The Cognitive Web
   A human-centric web architecture comprised of semantic markup and fuzzy logics.
   http://www.cognitiveweb.org

» The Future of the Semantic Web
   Article on the semantic web and its significance for the scientific community by Dr. Albert Benschop (University of Amsterdam).
   http://www.sociosite.org/semantic.php

» 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. Originally published in the "New Architect" e-zine.
   http://www.ddj.com/architect/184414544

» The Next Web
   Article discusses the changes expected in the Web's next evolution. Written by David M. Ewalt; published in "Information Week."
   http://www.informationweek.com/story/IWK20021010S0016

» The SEWASIE project: Semantic Webs and AgentS in Integrated Economies
   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
   http://www.sewasie.org

» The Semantic Web
   Lengthy descriptive Scientific American article by Tim Berners-Lee, James Hendler and Ora Lassila.
   http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=the-semantic-web

» The Semantic Web Lifts Off
   Article on W3C's Semantic Web activity.
   http://www.ercim.org/publication/Ercim_News/enw51/berners-lee.html

» The Semantic Web: 1-2-3
   An XML hacker discusses XML, RDF and the Semantic Web. Features links to other resources.
   http://www.disobey.com/detergent/2002/sw123/

» The Semantic Web: A Primer
   Offers an introduction and discusses technologies and developments. By Edd Dumbill, published in O'Reilly XML.com.
   http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2000/11/01/semanticweb/

» 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.
   http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/network/2002/04/19/platform.html

» TopQuadrant
   Company that providing consulting and tools for architectural design and implementation of Semantic Technology Solutions with an emphasis on Ontology Engineering.
   http://www.topquadrant.com

» 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.
   http://sw.nokia.com/uriqa/URIQA.html

» 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.
   http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/Activity

» 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.
   http://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/Weaving/

» 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.
   http://www.w3.org/2000/10/swap/doc/cwm.html