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

Big Fractal Tangle  bigfractaltangle.com Daily reflections on the ongoing evolution of the Semantic Web.

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

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

cwm  www.w3.org/2000/10/swap/doc/cwm.html 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  www.episem-action.org European research project with the goal to develop a software framework for building ontology-based collaboration platforms.

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

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

Gnowsis  www.gnowsis.com A framework for a personal semantic desktop system.

HP Labs Semantic Web Research  www.hpl.hp.com/semweb 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 the Semantic Web  139.91.183.30:9090/RDF Tools for managing voluminous RDF description bases.

ILRT Semantic Web Research Group  www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/discovery 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  iw.stanford.edu 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  www.net.intap.or.jp/e/s-web/index.html Committee in Japan to produce research and development in the Semantic Web.

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

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

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

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

Next Web Generation  www.nextwebgeneration.org 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  ontoware.org Collaborative project management and development environment for the Semantic Web

OpenSHORE.org  www.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  web.mit.edu/ryanlee/www/thesis/thesis.html Masters of Engineering Thesis with a focus on PEDAL: Personal Data Access Language.

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

Practical Knowledge Representation for the Web  www.cs.vu.nl/~frankh/postscript/IJCAI99-III.html 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  www.daml.ri.cmu.edu/Cal/index.shtml Project to develop interoperability between RDF based calendar descriptions and Personal Information Manager Systems such as Microsoft's Outlook.

SEKT Project  www.sekt-project.com European project on developing Semantically Enabled Knowledge Technologies.

Semantic Patterns Language  sempl.net Explores Universal Semantic Code to help create applications for Semantic WEB.

The Semantic Web  www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/projects/semantic_web A Bristol University project to create a globally-linked database to aid searching. Includes development, research, staff and publications.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

TopQuadrant  www.topquadrant.com 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  sw.nokia.com/uriqa/URIQA.html 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  www.w3.org/2001/sw/Activity 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  www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/Weaving 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.

Semantic Web Applications and Perspectives  semanticweb.deit.univpm.it/swap2004 The first Italian Workshop on Semantic Web Applications and Perspectives in collaboration with the W3C Italian Office. (December 10, 2004)

The Next Web  www.informationweek.com/story/IWK20021010S0016 Article discusses the changes expected in the Web's next evolution. Written by David M. Ewalt; published in "Information Week." (October 14, 2002)

The Semantic Web Lifts Off  www.ercim.org/publication/Ercim_News/enw51/berners-lee.html Article on W3C's Semantic Web activity. (October 1, 2002)

The Languages of the Semantic Web  www.ddj.com/architect/184414544 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. (June 1, 2002)

The Semantic Web: It's Whom You Know  www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/network/2002/04/19/platform.html 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)

Building a Semantic Web Site  www.xml.com/lpt/a/2001/05/02/semanticwebsite.html 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 2, 2001)

The Semantic Web  www.sciam.com/article.cfm?articleID=00048144-10D2-1C70-84A9809EC588EF21 Lengthy descriptive Scientific American article by Tim Berners-Lee, James Hendler and Ora Lassila. (May, 2001)

The Semantic Web: A Primer  www.xml.com/pub/a/2000/11/01/semanticweb Offers an introduction and discusses technologies and developments. By Edd Dumbill, published in O'Reilly XML.com. (November 1, 2000)

Semantic Web Roadmap  www.w3.org/DesignIssues/Semantic.html An attempt to give a high-level plan of the architecture by Tim Berners-Lee. (September 14, 1998)