OpenCyc is the open source version of the Cyc technology, the world's largest and most complete general knowledge base and commonsense reasoning engine.
The SWRC (Semantic Web for Research Communities) is an ontology for modeling entities of research communities such as persons, organisations, publications (bibliographic metadata) and their relationships. It is used in numerous applications and projects including the AIFB portal, Bibster and the SemIPort project.
"In Semantic Web languages, such as RDF and OWL, a property is a binary relation: it is used to link two individuals or an individual and a value. However, in some cases, the natural and convenient way to represent certain concepts is to use relations to link an individual to more than just one individual or value. These relations are called n-ary relations. For example, we may want to represent properties of a relation, such as our certainty about it, severity or strength of a relation, relevance of a relation, and so on. Another example is representing relations among multiple individuals, such as a buyer, a seller, and an object that was bought when describing a purchase of a book. This document presents ontology patterns for representing n-ary relations in RDF and OWL and discusses what users must consider when choosing these patterns."
This specification describes the FOAF language, defined as a dictionary of named properties and classes using W3C's RDF technology.
FOAF is a project devoted to linking people and information using the Web. Regardless of whether information is in people's heads, in physical or digital documents, or in the form of factual data, it can be linked. FOAF integrates three kinds of network: social networks of human collaboration, friendship and association; representational networks that describe a simplified view of a cartoon universe in factual terms, and information networks that use Web-based linking to share independently published descriptions of this inter-connected world. FOAF does not compete with socially-oriented Web sites; rather it provides an approach in which different sites can tell different parts of the larger story, and by which users can retain some control over their information in a non-proprietary format.
OntoWiki is a tool providing support for agile, distributed knowledge engineering scenarios.
OntoWiki facilitates the visual presentation of a knowledge base as an information map, with different views on instance data. It enables intuitive authoring of semantic content, with an inline editing mode for editing RDF content, similar to WYSIWIG for text documents.
Communities und soziale Netzwerke sind hochdynamische Gebilde die durch vielfältige, agile Beziehungen zwischen den Akteuren sowie deren Verknüpfungen mit verschiedensten Konzepten (z.B. Themen, Aufgaben, etc) gekennzeichnet sind.
Der Betrieb derartiger Wissensnetze (als Zusammenschlüsse von Wissensträgern) stellen die unterschiedlichen Akteure innerhalb der Communities vor nicht unerhebliche Aufgaben – so beispielsweise im Rahmen des aktiven Managements der behandelnden Themenstellungen, des Partnermanagements bzw. der Suche nach Akteuren mit entsprechendem Know-how.
Das Projekt "SemNetMan" (Semantisch basiertes Netzwerkmanagement) führt Methoden der vernetzten Wissensgesellschaft, wie etwa die Social Network Analysis (SNA) und die Techniken des Semantic Web, zusammen und unterstützt das Netzwerkmanagement mit Fokus auf die Teambildung und die Verknüpfung von Themen und Personen.
ThManager is an Open Source Tool for creating and visualizing SKOS RDF vocabularies, a W3C initiative for the representation of knowledge organization systems such as thesauri, classification schemes, subject heading lists, taxonomies, and other types of controlled vocabulary. ThManager facilitates the management of thesauri and other types of controlled vocabularies, such as taxonomies or classification schemes. The tool has been implemented in Java and has the following features:
Multi-platform (Windows, Unix). As it has been developed in Java and the storage of metadata records is managed directly through the file system, the application can be deployed in any platform with the minimum requirement of having installed a Java virtual machine.
Multilingual. The application has been developed following the Java internationalization methodology. Nowadays, there are Spanish and English versions. With little effort, other languages could be supported.
Selection and filtering of the thesauri stored in the local repository.
Description of thesauri by means of metadata in compliance with a Dublin Core based application profile for thesaurus (See application profile) . These metadata can be either visualized in HTML or edited through a form.
Visualization of thesaurus concepts. The visualization interface includes the following widgets:
Alphabetic viewer: It provides the list of thesaurus concepts alphabetically ordered in the selected language.
Hierarchical viewer: It provides a tree showing the hierarchical structure of thesaurus concepts.
Concept viewer: For a selected concept it shows all the properties allowing additionally the navigation to the related concepts by means of hyperlinks.
Search tool: It facilitates search of concepts. The searching process is based on preferred labels allowing the following criteria: "equals", "starts with" and "contains".
Edition of thesaurus content. The tool provides an edition interface to modify the content of a thesaurus: creation of concepts, deletion of concepts, and update of concept properties.
Exchange of thesauri according to SKOS format. The export operation includes the export of thesaurus metadata.
Extraction of related concepts in WordNet. It generates an automatic mapping of thesaurus concepts against the concepts of Wordnet lexical database.
On-line help by means of PDF visualization.
OntospyWeb is a tool made for navigating ontologies ('vocabularies') encoded using the RDF family of languages. It is based on the Ontospy Python library, which in turns wraps RDFLib.
Annotea is a W3C Semantic Web Advanced Development project that provides a framework for rich communication about Web pages through shared RDF metadata. An RDF model of bookmark classification permits multiple classification systems to be related to each
Charter: To define components of the draft standard "RDA - Resource Description and Access" as an RDF vocabulary for use in developing a Dublin Core application profile