Semantic Web
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The Semantic Web describes a sea change in the web from a web of documents to a web of data, or a true database of the world's knowledge. It is sometimes used to describe, or used interchangeably with the term Web 3.0.
Semantic
Meaning.
Web
An interlinked, self-supporting structure.
Semantic Feeds
PingTheSemanticWeb is a project to create a living web feed of Semantic Web data.
- PingTheSemanticWeb: http://pingthesemanticweb.com/
Semantic Apps
- Top 10 Semantic Apps to Watch: http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/10_semantic_apps_to_watch.php[8]
Semantic Search
- Possibilities for Video Games and the Semantic Web: http://www.semanticfocus.com/blog/entry/title/possibilities-for-video-games-and-the-semantic-web/
- Semantic Search - Myth and Reality: http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/semantic_search_the_myth_and_reality.php
Semantic Web Search
- Semantic Web Search is a search engine for the Semantic Web: http://www.altsearchengines.com/2009/11/01/semantic-web-search-is-a-search-engine-for-the-semantic-web/
- A Search Engine for the Semantic Web (BETA) -- Web Service API documentation: http://www.semanticwebsearch.com/query/reference.rsp#query
Security and Privacy
- Security and Privacy on Social Networks and the Semantic Web: http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/ensuring_security_and_privacy_through_xmpp.php
- The Dark side of the Internet - Security Issues in Semantic Web: http://www.canopusconsulting.com/canopusarchives/?p=20
Business Model
- What Web 3.0 Business Models? Some Take-Aways from the Web 3.0 Conference: http://www.semanticsincorporated.com/2008/10/what-business-models-for-the-web-30-some-take-aways-from-the-web-30-conference.html
- Leveraging The Semantic Web: http://www.forbes.com/technology/2008/10/20/internet-web-online-tech-cx_dw_1021jargonspy.html
Marketing
- Marketer's Guide to Semantic Web - Creating More Relevant Ads: http://threeminds.organic.com/2008/10/marketers_guide_to_semantic_we.html
Companies
Apture
- Apture: http://apture.com
- Apture Experience (Apture demos for grabbing data from various sites): http://www.apture.com/experience/
True Knowledge
- The Natural Language Question Answering Wikipedia for Facts: http://www.semanticfocus.com/blog/entry/title/true-knowledge-the-natural-language-question-answering-wikipedia-for-facts/
- True Knowledge API Demo - GeoLocation: http://www.trueknowledge.com/api/demo/geolocation/
- Knowledge Plaza: Sophisticated Knowledge Workspace: http://blogs.zdnet.com/collaboration/?p=327
- True Knowledge API lies at the heart of real business model: http://blogs.zdnet.com/semantic-web/?p=273
Adaptive Blue
- SmartLinks from AdaptiveBlue: http://www.adaptiveblue.com/demo_smart_links.html
Zemanta
- Zemanta - Plaint text to Metadata-enhanced text: http://www.zemanta.com/
- Demo of Text-transformation: http://www.zemanta.com/demo/
Calais
Metadata Extraction from unstructured and semi-structured data.
Semantic Hacker
- Semantic Hacker - A service and API for creating Semantic metadata from regular sites: http://www.semantichacker.com/
FALCON
- FALCON (Semantic Search for n3 & RDF triples on the web): http://iws.seu.edu.cn/services/falcons/objectsearch/index.jsp
Yahoo
Yahoo! was the first major search engine to announce RDFa-enhanced search results, and also the first to introduce the "drill-down by source" left-hand menu, which Google recently copied.
- The Future of Web 3.0 According to Yahoo!: http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/yahoo_the_future_of_web_30.php
Yes Google, is now a Semantic Web company. (well... sort of)
- Did Google Just Expose Semantic Data in Search Results?: http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/google_semantic_data.php
- Tim Berners-Lee: Google could be superseded by the semantic Web: http://news.cnet.com/8301-13953_3-9891949-80.html
Conferences
- Linking Open Data (LOD) Triplification Challenge: http://blog.semantic-web.at/2009/03/23/open-now-lod-triplification-challenge-2009/
Research Labs
MIT
- SIMILE project -- Semantic Interoperability of Metadata and Information in unLike Environments: http://simile.mit.edu/
- HAYSTACK group -- Research on Information Access, Analysis, Management, and Distribution: http://groups.csail.mit.edu/haystack/index.html
Nokia
- Nokia Research Center -- Semantic Web: http://research.nokia.com/research/programs/semantic-web/index.html
- Nokia Semantic Web Server: http://sw.nokia.com/
HP
- HP Labs Semantic Web Research: http://www.hpl.hp.com/semweb/index.html
Tools
- Semantic Web Development Tools: http://esw.w3.org/SemanticWebTools[9]
- Comprehensive list of 800+ Semantic Web Tools: http://www.mkbergman.com/new-version-sweet-tools-sem-web/
- OpenLink's Virtuoso
- Semantic Web Client Library -- Querying the complete Semantic Web with SPARQL: http://www4.wiwiss.fu-berlin.de/bizer/ng4j/semwebclient/
- Semantic Web Application Platform - SWAP: http://www.w3.org/2000/10/swap/
- OWLIM: http://www.ontotext.com/owlim
- OpenCyc: http://www.opencyc.org/
- Web-Enabled Temporal Analysis System (WebTAS): http://www.issinc.com/products/webtas/[10]
- Environmental Systems Research Institute (ESRI): http://www.esri.com
- TomSawyer Perspectives: http://www.tomsawyer.com/home/ [11]
- FalconView: http://www.falconview.org/trac/FalconView
Sindice
Sindice Provides Data Web ServicesOver 10 billion pieces of reusable information can already be found across 100 million web pages which embed RDF and Microformats. Start consuming this data today with Sindice Data Web services.
- Sindice: http://sindice.com/
SWOOGLE
- Swoogle: http://swoogle.umbc.edu/
- Swoogle API: http://www.programmableweb.com/api/swoogle
- Swoogle Web Services/API Manual: http://swoogle.umbc.edu/index.php?option=com_swoogle_manual&manual=search_overview
Resources
- W3C - Semantic Web standards: http://www.w3.org/standards/semanticweb/
- W3C Semantic Web Logos and Policies: http://www.w3.org/2007/10/sw-logos.html
- Sweet Tools (Complete list of SemWeb, RDF and OWL tools): http://www.mkbergman.com/?page_id=325
- Semantic Web Client Library (Querying the complete Semantic Web with SPARQL): http://www4.wiwiss.fu-berlin.de/bizer/ng4j/semwebclient/
- The Rationale for Semantic Technologies: http://www.mkbergman.com/1015/the-rationale-for-semantic-technologies/
- BBC Academy - Silver Oliver on the Semantic Web: http://www.bbc.co.uk/academy/news/view/semantic_web
DEMOS
- Injecting Facebook Data into the Semantic Data Web: http://www.openlinksw.com/blog/~kidehen/?id=1237
- Semantic Web Tutorial: http://slholmes.org/blog/?page_id=167
- A semantic web map meshup: http://www.johngoodwin.me.uk/boundaries/meshup.html
Tutorials
- W3C Semantic Web Tutorial: http://www.w3.org/2008/Talks/0305-C-SHALS/#(1)
- Java/JRuby Developers, Say Open 'Sesame' to the Semantic Web: http://www.devx.com/Java/Article/38970/1954?pf=true
- IBM Tuotials - Planning a Semantic Web site: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/library/x-plansemantic/?ca=dgr-lnxw06XMLPlanSemantic&S_TACT=105AGX59&S_CMP=GR
- SLUG - Semantic Web Crawler: http://code.google.com/p/slug-semweb-crawler/
- Semantic Exchange: http://semanticexchange.com/meta/
- dooit - a live Getting Real experiment - Semantic ToDO List: http://bnode.org/blog/2008/09/08/dooit-a-live-getting-real-experiment
- Debugging Semantic Web sites with cURL: http://dowhatimean.net/2007/02/debugging-semantic-web-sites-with-curl
- The Challenge of Building the Semantic Web: http://milicicvuk.com/blog/2011/10/20/the-challenge-of-building-the-semantic-web/
- Visualising Related Entries in Wikipedia Using Gephi: http://blog.ouseful.info/2012/07/03/visualising-related-entries-in-wikipedia-using-gephi/
- Mapping How Programming Languages Influenced Each Other According to Wikipedia: http://blog.ouseful.info/2012/07/03/mapping-how-programming-languages-influenced-each-other-according-to-wikipedia/#comments
- Get Real Data from the Semantic Web: http://architects.dzone.com/articles/get-real-data-semantic-web
External Links
- wikipedia: Semantic_Web
- wikipedia: Semantic_Web_Stack
- wikipedia: Topic Maps
- wikipedia: Geographic information system (GIS)
- The Semantic Web - A new form of Web content that is meaningful to computers will unleash a revolution of new possibilities (By Tim Berners-Lee, James Hendler and Ora Lassila): http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=the-semantic-web
- Tim Berners-Lee -- The Semantic Web: http://www.preoccupations.org/2004/09/tim_bernerslee_.html
- Semantic Web - Road map: http://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/Semantic.html
- Semantic Web - Use Cases (W3C): http://www.w3.org/2001/12/semweb-fin/w3csw
- Semantic Web explained for the layman/executive: http://www.semanticarts.com/blog/bid/123231/Semantic-Technology-What-it-is-why-you-should-care/
- What are the justifications for Semantic Web technologies? : http://fadyart.com/en/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=84:what-are-the-justifications-for-semantic-web-technologies&catid=31:ontologies-general&Itemid=41
- Elevator Pitches for the use of Semantic Web technologies: http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?OntologySummit2011_MakingTheCase_CommunityInput#nid2LX6
- The Shaky Semantics of the Semantic Web: http://www.mkbergman.com/?p=426
- Semantic Web - Concept vs Document: http://geonames.wordpress.com/2006/10/21/semantic-web-concept-vs-document/
- IBM, "The Future of the Web is Semantic", DATE [1]
- Bernard Horan, "THE SEMANTIC WEB: A BLUFFER'S GUIDE", Sun Microsystems. 2007. [2] http://www.bcs-spa.org/resources/semantic-web.pdf
- RDF as self-describing data: http://dallemang.typepad.com/my_weblog/2008/08/rdf-as-self-describing-data.html
- How Google beat Amazon and Ebay to the Semantic Web (fictional article from 2002 about Google overtaking Amazon and eBay in online retail, via the Semantic Web): http://www.ftrain.com/google_takes_all.html
- The Smarter, Semantic Web - Privacy Threat or Solution?: http://threeminds.organic.com/2008/10/the_smarter_semantic_web_priva.html
- Freebase Officially LinkedData with RDF Service: http://www.semanticfocus.com/blog/entry/title/freebase-officially-linked-data-with-release-of-rdf-service/
- Possibilities for Video Games and the Semantic Web: http://www.semanticfocus.com/blog/entry/title/possibilities-for-video-games-and-the-semantic-web/
- Building Semantics is Different from Building the Web: http://www.semanticfocus.com/blog/entry/title/building-semantics-is-different-from-building-the-web/
- How to Achieve the Semantic Web: http://www.internetevolution.com/author.asp?section_id=542&doc_id=153487
- On the Difference Between "Semantic" and "Semantic Web": http://novaspivack.typepad.com/nova_spivacks_weblog/2008/05/on-the-differen.html
- Reuters CEO sees "semantic web" in its future: http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2008/02/reuters-ceo-sees-semantic-web.html
- The Semantic Question: To Delete or Not To Delete: http://www.designmills.com/2008/09/12/the-semantic-question-to-delete-or-not-to-delete/
- Semantic Web Getting Real : http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/02/10/2041235&from=rss
- 10 Semantic Apps to Watch - One Year Later: http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/10_semantic_apps_to_watch_one_year_later.php
- 10 More Semantic Apps to Watch: http://www.nytimes.com/external/readwriteweb/2008/11/20/20readwriteweb-10_more_semantic_apps_to_watch.html?ei=5070&emc=eta1
- Semantic Web a Concise Introduction: http://videolectures.net/pintro05_studer_swci/
- The Semantic Web, Syllogism, and Worldview: http://www.shirky.com/writings/semantic_syllogism.html
- The Semantic Web in Action: http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=semantic-web-in-actio
- Semantic Knowledge: http://www.semantic-knowledge.com/
- Agent Based Semantic Web: http://www.semanticuniverse.com/articles-agent-based-semantic-web.html
- 12 Companies Targeting Tech Early Adopters: http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/the_services_that_power_readwriteweb_2feb09.php
- Unified Medical Language System (UMLS): http://www.nlm.nih.gov/research/umls/\
- The Emerging-Semantics Web (”The Semantic Web is Dead”): http://www.yahooresearchberkeley.com/blog/2007/05/16/the-emerging-semantics-web-the-semantic-web-is-dead/
- Yahoo! adds RDF support to SearchMonkey and BOSS: http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/blogger/2009/02/12/yahoo-adds-rdf-support-to-searchmonkey-and-boss/
- Is the Relational Database Doomed?: http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/is_the_relational_database_doomed.php
- The Semantic Web - Web 3.0: http://www.tamingthebeast.net/blog/online-world/semantic-web-30-0707.htm
- Semantic Web Patterns: A Guide to Semantic Technologies: http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/semantic_web_patterns.php
- The Semantic Web Will Change the World... and Marketing too: http://www.bestrank.com/blog/semantic-web-will-change-the-world
- Mining The Thought Stream: http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/02/15/mining-the-thought-stream/
- The Secret History of Sillicon Valley: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFSPHfZQpIQ
- Shirky, Syllogism and the Semantic Web: http://semantic-conference.blogs.com/semtech06/2007/03/shirky_syllogis.html#comments
- Semantic DataBase Blog: http://semanticdb.blogspot.com/
- Programming the Semantic Web - Rough Cuts Version (Book by O'Reilly Media): http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596802066/#top
- The Next Step to the 'Semantic Web': http://onlinejournalismblog.com/2009/03/22/the-next-step-to-the-semantic-web/
- The Web of Data - Creating Machine-Accessible Information: http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/web_of_data_machine_accessible_information.php
- Can Semantic Technologies help brands profit from social media?: http://cloudofdata.com/2009/04/eric-hillerbrand-sees-a-profitably-semantic-future-for-our-relationship-with-brands/
- THE GLOBAL BRAIN, THE SEMANTIC WEB, SINGULARITY and 360-2020 CONSCIOUSNESS: http://knol.google.com/k/twain/the-global-brain-the-semantic-web/31fjy9fjsu1x2/19#
- Semantic Web Awareness: http://blogs.talis.com/nodalities/2009/04/semantic-web-awareness.php
- Tying Web 3.0, the Semantic Web and Linked Data Together --- Part 1/3: Web 3.0 Will Not Solve Information Overload
- Legal Ontologies Spin a Semantic Web: http://www.law.com/jsp/law/careercenter/lawArticleCareerCenter.jsp?id=1202431256007&rss=careercenter
- How The Semantic Web Works: http://computer.howstuffworks.com/semantic-web.htm
- What is the Semantic Web really all about?: http://network.nature.com/people/jhendler/blog/2009/06/16/what-is-the-semantic-web-really-all-about
- ReadWriteWeb Interview With Tim Berners-Lee, Part 1: Linked Data: http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/interview_with_tim_berners-lee_part_1.php
- ReadWriteWeb Interview With Tim Berners-Lee, Part 2: Search Engines, User Interfaces for Data, Wolfram Alpha, And More...: http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/readwriteweb_interview_with_tim_berners-lee_part_2.php
- Garlik releases Open Source RDF triple store, claims capacity for 60 billion triples: http://cloudofdata.com/2009/07/garlik-releases-open-source-rdf-triple-store-claims-capacity-for-60-billion-triples/
- Developers Guide to Semantic Web Toolkitsfor different Programming Languages (2007): http://www4.wiwiss.fu-berlin.de/bizer/toolkits/#php
- Spicing Up Your Blog: Apture vs. Zemanta Balloons: http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/spicing_up_your_blog_apture_vs_zemanta_balloons.php
- Semantic Web is a Program: http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/semantic_web_is.php
- Are Semantic Technologies losing the moment?: http://blog.value-it.isoco.net/?p=102
- Web creator rejects net tracking: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7299875.stm
- Top 10 Semantic Web Products of 2009: http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/top_10_semantic_web_products_of_2009.php
- Building Competency in Semantic Web Technology: http://www.semanticuniverse.com/topquadrant-monthly-column/group-blog-entry-building-competency-semantic-web-technology.html
- Sir Tim Berners-Lee on Linked Data and the Semantic Web: http://www.governingpeople.com/Home/19272
- The Maturing Semantic Web -- Lessons in Web-Scale Knowledge Representation: http://hse.ru/data/031/998/1224/Greaves.pdf
- The Drive To Social Intelligence: http://www.semanticweb.com/news/the_drive_to_social_intelligence_149683.asp?c=rss
- Case Study -- Use of Semantic Web Technologies on the BBC Web Sites: http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/sweo/public/UseCases/BBC/
- The MultiLingual Semantic Web Matters For Businesses And EveryDay Web Users: http://www.semanticweb.com/news/the_multilingual_semantic_web_matters_for_businesses_and_everyday_web_users_153309.asp#more
- Semantic Web In Action - Apture: http://davidkuhta.com/2010/01/semantic-technologies-in-action-apture/
- Semantic Web In Action - OpenAmplify: http://davidkuhta.com/2010/02/semantic-technologies-in-action-openamplify/
- Semantic Web In Action - Triplify: http://davidkuhta.com/2010/02/semantic-web-in-action-triplify/
- The Birth of the Scheduled Web: http://www.novaspivack.com/uncategorized/the-birth-of-the-scheduled-web
- BBC World Cup 2010 dynamic semantic publishing: http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/legacy/bbcinternet/2010/07/bbc_world_cup_2010_dynamic_sem.html
- World Cup 2010 and BBC's call to action around Linked Data: http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/bbcinternet/2010/07/the_world_cup_and_a_call_to_ac.html
- Bridging the gap - How Semantic Web can move into the mainstream through SXSW: http://semanticuniverse.com/blogs-bridging-gap-how-semantic-web-can-move-mainstream-through-sxsw.html
- Beyond Social - Read/Write in The Era of Internet of Things: http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/beyond_social_web_internet_of_things.php
- Extractiv Launches "Semantics as a Service" Platform: http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/extractiv_launches_semantics_as_a_service_platform.php
- Web Science - the new frontier: http://nbbusinessjournal.canadaeast.com/journal/article/1235974
- Putting the Semantic Web to work in e-Commerce with GoodRelations: http://www.zdnet.com/blog/semantic-web/putting-the-semantic-web-to-work-in-e-commerce-with-goodrelations/356
- The Semantic Web 1-2-3: http://www.disobey.com/detergent/2002/sw123/
- The common, layered Semantic Web technology stack: http://smiy.wordpress.com/2011/01/10/the-common-layered-semantic-web-technology-stack/
- Ajax Timelines and the Semantic Web: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/9301
- Is Semantic Web and Linked Data Good Enough? SPARQL & DBPedia vs. Python & IMDbPY: http://ileriseviye.org/blog/programlama/is-semantic-web-and-linked-data-good-enough-sparql-dbpedia-vs-python-imdbpy/
- Beyond Freebase and DBpedia: http://gen5.info/q/2012/06/19/beyond-freebase-and-dbpedia/
- What is Happening in the W3C Semantic Web Activity? (2012 status update): http://videolectures.net/w3cworkshop2012_herman_w3c_semantic/
- Can the Semantic Web revolutionize healthcare analytics?: http://ehrintelligence.com/2014/03/27/can-the-semantic-web-revolutionize-healthcare-analytics/
- The Semantic Web - Moving Forward in 2015: http://www.dataversity.net/semantic-web-moving-forward-2015/
- Semantics at Play - Electronic Arts’ Linked Data Journey: http://2017.semantics.cc/aaron-bradley-eamonn-glass
References
- ↑ MIT World -- The Semantic Web (with Tim Berners-Lee, 2004): http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/236
- ↑ MIT Technology Review: http://www.technologyreview.com/video/semantic
- ↑ Semantic Web concise presentation (by Tom Llube) - DAVOS 2009: http://www.victorgodot.com/newmedia/?p=147
- ↑ Beginner's Introduction to the Semantic Web: http://infomesh.net/2001/swintro/
- ↑ SUN's Overview of the Semantic Web: http://blogs.sun.com/bblfish/entry/restful_semantic_web_services
- ↑ Nova Spivack at The Next Web Conference 2008: http://www.vimeo.com/1062481?pg=embed&sec=1062481
- ↑ 17 Semantic Web, RDF, and OWL Videos: http://www.semanticfocus.com/blog/entry/title/17-semantic-web-rdf-and-owl-videos/
- ↑ Where Are All The RDF-based Semantic Web Apps?: http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/rdf_semantic_web_apps.php
- ↑ Which Tools and Libraries do you use to develop Semantic Web applications ?: http://answers.semanticweb.com/questions/75/which-tools-and-libraries-do-you-use-to-develop-semantic-web-applications
- ↑ ISS Releases New Version of WebTAS: http://www.issinc.com/iss-releases-new-version-of-webtas/
- ↑ Tom Sawyer Software Releases Tom Sawyer Perspectives, Version 3.0 (2011): http://www.prweb.com/releases/prwebdatavisualization/tomsawyersoftware/prweb8690493.htm
See Also
Linked Data | AI | Semantic Search | DL | Ontology | RDF | SPARQL | Data Visualization | World Wide Web | Web 2.0 | Web 3.0 | Web 4.0
