URL: http://powl.sourceforge.net/swc/
Date created: 2004-11-30
Description:
The aim of pOWL is to deliver an easy-to-deploy and easy-to-use, scalable, PHP and web-based ontology management solution to the Open Source community, which covers the whole ontology lifecycle. Despite the fact that pOWL is still in beta quality stage it is already productively used in several projects. A final production grade version 1.0 will be published October 15th. As a use case, we present the application of pOWL to semantic web content management and how it may be used as a foundation framework for semantic web applications.
URL: http://beghin.inria.fr/
Date created: 2004-11-30
Description:
The aim of the KMP project is to increase the portfolio of competences of the Telecom Valley of Sophia Antipolis by helping actors in expressing their interests and needs in a common space. The solution relies on the specification, design, building and evaluation of an online customizable semantic web application.
Contact:
Fabien Gandon
INRIA Sophia Antipolis
URL: http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/group/seco/museums/
Date created: 2004-11-29
Description:
MuseumFinland provides the end-user with a semantic seamless view to distributed heterogeneous cultural collections. A view-based semantic search engine based on seven cultural ontologies can be used for getting overviews of the contents along nine different dimensions (such as artifact type, material, place of usage, time of creation, situation of usage etc.), and for concept-based information retrieval. Semantic browsing is supported by a logic-based link generator that associates collection pages with each other in a meaning way and with explanatory link labels. For the museums, MuseumFinland provides a shared national publication channel for the Semantic Web.
Contact:
Eero Hyvonen
University of Helsinki and Helsinki Institute for Information Technology (HIIT)
URL: http://platypuswiki.sourceforge.net/
Date created: 2004-11-15
Description:
Platypus Wiki is a project to develop an enhanced Wiki Web with ideas borrowed from the Semantic Web. It offers a simple user interface to create wiki pages with metadata based on W3C standards. It uses RDF (Resource Description Framework), RDF Schema and OWL (Web Ontology Language) to create ontologies and manage metadata. Platypus Wiki is an ongoing open source project started on 23th December 2003. The project is actually hosted on SourceForge and licensed under GNU GPL. Platypus Wiki is a rapid and useful Personal Knowledge Management system, as well as a valuable tool to manage Communities of Practice.
Contact:
Paolo Castagna
URL: http://sciencedesk.arc.nasa.gov/
Date created: 2004-11-15
Description:
SemanticOrganizer is a collaborative knowledge management system designed to support the information storage and access needs of diverse NASA project teams, including distributed teams of scientists, engineers, and accident investigators. The system provides a customizable, semantically structured information repository that stores work products relevant to multiple projects of differing types. SemanticOrganizer contains a local repository for data, metadata, and links, but is also able to reference information available on arbitrary web servers. Semantic Organizer has been used to support a large number of teams in real world applications from astrobiology to robotics to engineering accident investigation.
Contact:
Richard Keller
NASA/Ames Research Center
URL: http://ubaccess.com/swap.html
Date created: 2004-11-15
Description:
SWAP: the Semantic Web Accessibility Platform is a semantic web knowledge based approach to accessibility. SWAP adds a layer of knowledge to a site from which it creates alternative renderings of sites, e.g. to be section 508 compliant.
Contact:
Lisa Seeman
UB Access
URL: http://www.nesstar.org/portal/
Date created: 2004-11-15
Description:
The Madiera Portal provides access to an unprecedented quantity of social sciences quantitative datasets using an easy to use Yahoo-style interface. It works by harvesting statistical datasets published on the Semantic Web.
The Madiera Portal provides unified access to the resources (social sciences quantitative studies and variable groups) published by the data archives that take part to the Madiera project, a 5th Framework EU-project.
The resources are categorised using a set of multi and monolingual thesauri and classifications, currently:
GCL (UK Government Category List), CESSDA (Council of European Social Science Data Archives Classification) and ELSST (European Language Social Science Thesaurus).
Contact:
Pasqualino Assini
Nesstar Ltd
More information:
Madiera project
URL: http://www.cs.vu.nl/~rstegers/iwa/
Date created: 2004-11-15
Description:
The World Wide is becoming the mainsource for music, both in terms of digital music directly accessible over the web and portals like Amazon that sell music in more traditional formats. The World Wide Web is becoming the main source for music, both in terms of digital music directly accessible over the web and portals like Amazon that sell music in more traditional formats. As in other areas the size of the Web and the amount of available information is becoming a problem, because browsing through all available files is not an option.
The aim of this application is to help people to find albums and to actively recommend albums that the user is likely to enjoy. In MusiDB the functionality of finding a piece of music based on its name and the name of the artists is achieved by matching the user input with Musicbrainz, one of largest RDF data bases, that contains information about artists, albums and songs. Based on the information about the albums of that particular artist, the Amazon Web service is queried to provide additional information about albums containing the song (this can be more than one due to compilations and best-of albums) like the cover, sound samples, the retails price etc.
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URL: http://dbin.sourceforge.net/
Date created: 2004-11-15
Description:
DBin is a Semantic-Web pear-to-pear platform aimed at the general internet users. DBin is currently based on the novel RDFGrowth P2P algorithm and sports a rich user interface and plugin system based on Eclipse RCP.
Usecase:
Power users create "brainlets", which are domain specific applications (e.g. the Italian Opera Fan club) using the available high level API and these can be used to richly and cohoperatively annotate "things" that are commonly considered to be of interest in the domain (e.g. singers, operas, arias, theatres etc..). Given its all RDF, brainlets can interact and benefit from each other.
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More information:
DBin Overview
A property with the following URI has been added to the SKOS Core Vocabulary:
http://www.w3.org/2004/02/skos/core#subjectIndicator
For a summary of this property, see:
http://www.w3.org/2004/02/skos/core/spec/#subjectIndicator
The skos:subjectIndicator property has been added to support the subject indicator mechanism for establishing the identity of a 'subject' (read 'resource' in RDF speak). This property is an inverse-functional property, allowing it to be used as a basis for resource identification.
So for example, it would quite reasonable to publish an RDF description of a concept without an assigned URI, e.g.
<rdf:RDF xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#"
xmlns:skos="http://www.w3.org/2004/02/skos/core#">
<skos:Concept>
<skos:prefLabel xml:lang="en">Iraq</skos:prefLabel>
<skos:subjectIndicator rdf:resource="http://psi.oasis-open.org/geolang/iso3166/#368"/>
</skos:Concept>
</rdf:RDF>
... and then reference this concept within an RDF description of another resource using the skos:subjectIndicator property, e.g.
<rdf:RDF xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#"
xmlns:skos="http://www.w3.org/2004/02/skos/core#">
<rdf:Description rdf:about="http://www.iraqdaily.com/">
<skos:subject rdf:parseType="Resource">
<skos:subjectIndicator rdf:resource="http://psi.oasis-open.org/geolang/iso3166/#368"/>
</skos:subject>
</rdf:Description>
</rdf:RDF>