URL: http://kmi.open.ac.uk/projects/magpie/main.html
Date created: 2005-02-10
Description:
Magpie (available as an IE or Mozilla plugin) works as a streamlined toolbar that sits within your web browser and automatically highlights key items of interest (concepts linked to an underlying ontology) within any web page you visit. For each highlighted term it provides a set of related 'services' e.g. explanations, examples, further links. Magpie's architecture, which is open to ontologies and semantic web services, provides a software framework for
designing and implementing semantic web applications.
Contact:
Martin Dzbor
KMI, Open University, UK
URL: http://www.annotea.org/ISWC2004/annoteademo.html
Date created: 2004-12-10
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Annotea is a W3C LEAD (Live Early Adoption and Demonstration) project under Semantic Web Advanced Development (SWAD). Annotea enhances collaboration via shared metadata based Web annotations, bookmarks, and their combinations. By annotations we mean comments, notes, explanations, or other types of external remarks that can be attached to any Web document or a selected part of the document without actually needing to touch the document. When the user gets the document he or she can also load the annotations attached to it from a selected annotation server or several servers and see what his peer group thinks. Similarly shared bookmarks can be attached to Web documents to help organize them under different topics, to easily find them later, to help find related material and to collaboratively filter bookmarked material.
Contact:
Marja-Riitta Koivunen
Annotea
URL: http://prauw.cs.vu.nl:8080/flink/
Date created: 2004-12-09
Description:
Flink is a crossover between a social experiment and a semantic application. It brings together a number of different knowledge sources and use them to learn about the social structures of the community that created them - in this case, the community of Semantic Web researchers. The resulting application is a Who is Who of the Semantic Web, which can be of interest to this community as a reflection of their social organization, but is also valuable as an input for Social Network Analysis, a branch of sociology concerned with relational data. Export to popular network analysis packages is directly supported by the application.
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URL: http://swoogle.umbc.edu
Date created: 2004-12-07
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Swoogle is a crawler-based indexing and retrieval system for the Semantic Web documents - i.e., RDF or OWL documents. It analyzes the documents it discovered to compute useful metadata properties and relationships between them. The documents are also indexed by using an information retrieval system which can use either character N-Gram or URIs as terms to finnd documents matching a user's query or to compute the similarity among a set of documents. One of the interesting properties computed for each Semantic Web document is its rank - a measure of the document's importance on the Semantic Web.
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Description (original URL access protected): http://whitepapers.zdnet.co.uk/0,39025945,60120539p-39000589q,00.htm
Date created: 2004-12-07
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Semantic Portal on International Affairs: A web-portal architecture for a political institute, where the online content can be accessed by navigating through categories or by a keyword-based, full text search engine. The access is based on the meaning of concepts and relations of the International Affairs domain. The approach comprises an automatic ontology-based annotator, a semantic search engine with a natural language interface, a web publication tool allowing semantic navigation, and a 3D visualization component.
Contact:
Jesus Contreras
Intelligent Software Components S.A. (iSOCO)
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://www-sop.inria.fr/acacia/soft/kmp.html
Date created: 2003-03
Description:
Knowledge Management Platform (KmP)
A Semantic Web Service for the Cartography of Competences in the Telecom Valley of Sophia Antipolis
This Web application relies on ontology-based models and inferences and merges the frameworks of the semantic web (RDF, RDFS) and the classic web (HTML, CSS, SVG) and the structured web (XML, XSLT) to integrate data coming from very different sources, allow queries from different viewpoints, adapt content to users, analyze, group, infer and render indicators of the Telecom Valley situation. KMP relies on the integration of multiple components: databases for back-end persistence, web servers with JSP and servlets to provide front ends, and the CORESE semantic web server [1]to provide semantic web processing capabilities.
[1] http://www-sop.inria.fr/acacia/soft/corese/
Usecase:
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.
Provide a Map of Competences to Foster Partnerships:
The primary objective of this project is to create and implement an innovative knowledge management solution based on:
a repository shared by the members of the Telecom Valley, including a map of competencies, actors and projects
a common language to describe and differentiate the needs and the resources of all the participants.
The elaboration of the repository is articulated around three application scenarios:
Acquire and give a broader visibility of the Telecom Valley community
Search and exchange information in the case of Inter-firm cooperation
Search and exchange information in the case of Public research / Private research cooperation
Thus, the goal of KMP is to build an innovative solution of knowledge management shared within a community, in order to foster synergies and partnerships by providing a dynamic map of the competences of the different stakeholders. The solution relies on the specification, design, building and evaluation of an online customizable service.
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Web Site
Online Access
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http://www.informatik.uni-bremen.de/swc/dope.html/
Date created: 2003
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The aim of the DOPE project (Drug Ontology Project for Elsevier) is to investigate the possibility of providing access to multiple information sources in the area of life sciences, through a single interface. DOPE allows thesaurus-driven access to heterogeneous and distributed data, based on the RDF data model. This architecture allows for the easy addition of ontologies and data sources, to facilitate the investigation of ontology mapping and data integration issues.
Usecase:
Propose ways to provide access to multiple lifescience
information sources through a single interface in order to support information providers such as Elsevier make it their business.
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Web Site
Article IEEE Intelligent Systems, May/June 2004
URL: http://swordfish.rdfweb.org/discovery/2001/08/codepict/
Date created: 2001-08
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Multi-dimensional image search online demo - search by person, place, date, thing (using wordnet).
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Photo metadata: the codepiction experiment
URL: http://creativecommons.org/
Date created: 2001
Description:
Creative Commons has developed a Web application that helps people dedicate their creative works to the public domain or retain their copyright while licensing them as free for certain uses, on certain conditions. Creative Commons are designed for a variety of creative works: websites, scholarship, music, film, photography, literature, courseware, etc. To this end, they have developed metadata that can be used to associate creative works with their public domain or license status in a machine-readable way. These metadata enable applications to find, for example, photographs that are free to use provided that the original photographer is credited, or songs that may be copied, distributed, or sampled with no restrictions whatsoever. They provide an RDF Schema (http://creativecommons.org/technology/metadata/implement) with two major parts: a work description, and a license description. The work description uses Dublin Core properties to provide information about the work. Finally they provide online tools to generates the metadata describing your resources (http://creativecommons.org/license/)
Usecase:
"Too often the debate over creative control tends to the extremes. At one pole is a vision of total control - a world in which every last use of a work is regulated and in which 'all rights reserved' (and then some) is the norm. At the other end is a vision of anarchy - a world in which creators enjoy a wide range of freedom but are left vulnerable to exploitation. Balance, compromise, and moderation - once the driving forces of a copyright system that valued innovation and protection equally - have become endangered species. Creative Commons is working to revive them. We use private rights to create public goods: creative works set free for certain uses. Like the free software and open-source movements, our ends are cooperative and community-minded, but our means are voluntary and libertarian. We work to offer creators a best-of-both-worlds way to protect their works while encouraging certain uses of them - to declare 'some rights reserved.' "
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Information for creators and developers
URL: http://www.informatik.uni-bremen.de/swc/annoterra.html
Date created: 2003
Description:
AnnoTerra is a Semantic Web Application that presents enhanced Earth
science newsfeeds by making focused semantic searches on NASA knowledge
catalogs using concepts and relationships of the Earth science realm.
At present, AnnoTerra processes newsfeeds from the NASA Earth Observatory
by extracting meaningful keywords. These keywords are then used to
perform ontology based semantic searches in the Global Change Master
Directory (GCMD) for relevant resources. The results retrieved are
subsequently mapped to an ontology of the Earth Observing System (EOS)
ClearingHOuse (ECHO) and a new search is performed for corresponding
datasets in the ECHO catalog. By creating an ontology for the GCMD and
ECHO, and a equivalence between the two, we've created a semantic
unification of Earth science resources registered in GCMD and data
collections registered in ECHO.
The project name, AnnoTerra, is derived from Annotated Terrestrial
Information, with the idea of enhancing existing data sources with extra
information.
Contact:
Daniel Ramagem
Science Systems and Applications, Inc.
More information:
AnnoTerra: Annotated Terrestrial Information