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STERNA (Semantic Web-based Thematic European Reference Network Application) is the contribution of twelve European natural history museums and other institutions that collect and hold content on biodiversity, wildlife and nature in general, to the objectives and realisation of a European Digital Library. The project specifically addresses the many small cultural heritage institutions and content providers that want to actively participate and contribute to the European Digital Library initiative but lack both technical skills and financial resources to do so. To help content providers to make their valuable and rich resources available to a wider audience, our vision is to create a dispersed and networked information space, supported and sustained by a member network of autonomous content organisations which serves users with a special interest in nature and wildlife worldwide.

Welcome to my bibliography page. Here you can find my bibliographic information, that is, my personally managed bibliography. I am pretty interested in this area, because my current work in the ShaRef project aims at creating a tool for improving the ways in which researchers individually and collaboratively manage bibliographic information. The HTML pages used here have produced with ShaRef, so you might also be interested to give it a try...? My bibliographic information is available in the following forms: * HTML page. Heavily cross-linked (intra-page links and with the title and an author indices) and connected with all forms of external online information (URIs, DOIs, OpenURLs). However, the OpenURLs may be of limited use to you, because they point to the library server of my local university... * PDF printout. Generated by LaTeX from the BibTeX source. * BibTeX source. This is the source for the above representations. It will be replaced with an XML-based format in the long term, but the XML format is still a bit unstable (but go ahead and give it a try if you feel adventurous). * TeX2Unicode conversion tables. Here you'll find the character conversion tables we use to translate between BibTeX (i.e., LaTeX) characters and Unicode. You can get the conversion tables in various machine-readbale formats, so if you are looking for general LaTeX-to-Unicode character conversion, you might find this useful.

The growing public perception is that PDF is too bulky and increasingly too opaque for the networked world. This is because PDF’s have not kept up with the prevailing trends of transparency, findability, and collaboration. PDF is important as a container with certain rights & privileges (DigSig, Security, Markup, Forms), but the data inside a PDF is far more important. Currently, PDF’s are way too opaque, too bloated, and do not clearly convey value to most users. This is especially true on mobile (why would I chose to view PDF on mobile if not required by an enterprise I need to engage with?). For most enterprises and customers, PDF is a cloud of data more than a display standard. It’s value is no longer in consistent display of fonts and formatting. It’s in the data within the millions of PDF’s that the IRS has, for example. Even as a Forms front-end it’s difficult to see why Reader/Acrobat is a better solution than a robust customizable Flash interface. The Flash-based Portfolios feature is a step in this direction.

Semantic Web Company [Semantic Web Company, Vienna] The Semantic Web Company (SWC), based in Vienna, provides companies, institutions and organizations with professional services related to the Semantic Web, semantic technologies, knowledge management and social software. The Semantic Web Company provides services in six business segments: School Practice-oriented courses, inhouse trainings, open seminars and tool workshops. All courses are modularized; the components of, for instance, the 12 day 'web expert' course can also be booked separately. Consulting IT-consulting & strategy, e.g. ontology engineering, technology and usability consulting, software evaluation, feasibility studies and impact assessment, strategies for data integration. Projects Commercial projects: support during design phase, implementation and software development as well as with roll-out and change management. Research projects: in particular contribution to use-cases and dissemination activities. Events Organisation of events, conferences, trade shows, fairs and colloquiums; Assistance with finding events & media partners, consulting for target-group specific event marketing, website development and organisation on the spot. Media Editing of books, text books and volumes (e.g. at Springer, Trauner, OCG Verlag); production of course materials, studies and reports; information about current technological developments on the web, via the web. Solutions Together with partners from industry and academia we help to find the right solutions, drawing on a compilationof the best software tools, services and information sources for every aspect of the Semantic Web. For more information, please visit the Semantic Web Company's Website or their blog: Semantic Puzzle - Open World Assumptions.The monthly newsletter covers activities in the Semantic Web community, information about current SWC projects and news from SWC's partner network (e.g. KiWi). To get an idea of the newsletter's contents, visit the newsletter archive. Blog posts written by KiWi members about the project, but on their respective blogs are syndicated on Planet KiWi.

SWAD-Europe: Semantic Blogging and Bibliographies - Requirements Specification Project name: Semantic Web Advanced Development for Europe (SWAD-Europe)

The UMBEL project is a community one with participation encouraged. We welcome criticisms, testing, debate and discourse. The current system is not yet at acceptable production quality, and some properties and vocabulary are still experimental. Please help UMBEL become better !

The OntoWare Group provides organizational and legal support for a broad range of Semantic Web related software projects. Through a collaborative and meritocratic development process, OntoWare projects deliver enterprise-grade, freely available software products that attract large communities of users.

Cycorp is a leading provider of semantic technologies that bring a new level of intelligence and common sense reasoning to a wide variety of software applications. The Cyc® software combines an unparalleled common sense ontology and knowledge base with a powerful reasoning engine and natural language interfaces to enable the development of novel knowledge-intensive applications. As a premier knowledge-based technologies research and development company, Cycorp leverages its cutting edge innovations in knowledge representation, machine reasoning, natural language processing, semantic data integration, and information management and search to offer an array of semantic middleware, knowledge-based application development capabilities, and turn-key solutions. The Cyc project, a long-term quest to develop a true artificial intelligence, was founded in 1984 by Dr. Douglas Lenat as a lead project in the Microelectronics and Computer Technology Corporation (MCC). In 1994, Cycorp was founded to further develop, commercialize, and apply the Cyc technology. To foster the growth of semantic reasoning by the research community, Cycorp offers a no-cost license to its semantic technologies development toolkit to the research community. Additionally, it has placed the core Cyc ontology into the public domain. Cycorp has headquarters in Austin, Texas and offices in Ljubljana, Slovenia.

Zitgist∗ provides quality Linked Data products and services. Zitgist’s proven approach to Linked Data is based on open standards to interconnect any form of relevant information — on demand and in context.

Talis is a privately owned, well established and innovative software company. The Talis Platform division is a global leader in the research and application of Semantic Web technologies. The Talis Applications division is the UK market leader in providing academic and public library solutions. We are among the world's first companies to apply leading edge Semantic Web technologies. We are transforming our existing applications, creating new applications and providing a technology platform for others.