The Internet Relay Chat (IRC) #rdfig channel is now available, offering real time collaboration to Semantic Web Developers at irc://irc.openprojects.net:6667/rdfig. The IRC channel extends t... [Apr. 23, 2001]

The Basic Semantic Web Language (BSWL) is a proposal for a "stripped down RDF-in-XML syntax" that uses a simpler abstract data model than the RDF Model and Syntax specification. BSWL also uses a sim... [Jul. 16, 2001]

Meaning Definition Language (MDL) is intended to bridge the gap between structure and meaning by modeling a definition of the meanings (such as the properties or objects) conveyed by the structure o... [Sep. 6, 2001]

The Monastic XML site offers a guide interpreting "what XML is good at" from Simon St.Laurent, author of several books (including XML: A Primer, XML Elements of Style, Building XML Applications,... [Oct. 2, 2002]

The On-To-Knowledge Project is working to to develop develop tools and methods for supporting knowledge management relying on sharable and reusable knowledge ontologies (ontologies are formal theori... [Sep. 27, 2000]

This page posts a download link for OilEd, a freeware ontology editor for building ontologies using Ontology Interchange Language (OIL). In addition to building ontologies, OilEd allows the user t... [Dec. 8, 2000]

Protégé-2000 is an ontology building tool from Stanford Medical Informatics.... [Apr. 4, 2001]

RDFAuthor is a Java-based, native OS X application that allows Resource Description Framework (RDF) instance data to be queried or authored via a graphical interface. The application uses Hewlet Pac... [Nov. 25, 2001]

This W3C activity page is devoted to tracking resources related to the development of the Semantic Web, Tim Berners-Lee's vision (and the W3C's task) of enabling machines to make more sense of the W... [Feb. 15, 2001]

SemanticWeb.org is currently operated by three research groups focused on questions which have to be solved to enable a Semantic Web, where ontologies (shared conceptualizations) are developed t... [Sep. 27, 2000]

The Semantic Web Agreement Group (SWAG) has formed to provide a strong infrastructure for the Semantic Web, while working with various members of the Web community to ensure that data remains intero... [Jan. 29, 2001]

The Framework for Distributed Organizational Memories Resource Description Framework Visualization Tool (FRODO RDFSViz Tool) is a visualization service for ontologies (shared conceptualizations) rep... [Oct. 2, 2000]

The Jena Semantic Web Toolkit is a Java Application Programming Interface (API) and software toolkit for manipulating Resource Description Framework (RDF) models. Jena Toolkit integrates both Dav... [Jan. 6, 2002]

Excerpted from web site: "The main barrier to electronic commerce lies in the need for applications to meaningfully share information, not in the reliabili... [Jan. 15, 1999]

This article from Scientific American describes the expected impact of the Semantic Web. A future Web experience is detailed to highlight some of the capabilities of a properly designed Semantic ... [Apr. 16, 2001]

This tutorial article is offered as a clear primer on the Semantic Web, a web of data with meaning that can be processed by machines. It is one of a number of Semantic Web education and outreach m... [Sep. 21, 2001]

This is a Resource Description Framework (RDF) representation of Wordnet (http://www.cogsci.princeton.edu/~wn/), an on-line lexical reference for the English language, organized by synonym sets,... [Feb. 8, 2001]

XML-Based Ontology Exchange Language (XOL) is a language for exchange of ontologies, created to facilitate the creation of shared ontologies (originally developed for use in bioinformatics). The ... [Dec. 22, 2000]