The SemIPort (Semantic Methods and Tools for Information Portals) project develops innovative methods and tools for creating and maintaining semantic information portals for scientific communities. The methods combine techniques developed in the areas of metadata, knowledge management, knowledge representation, personalization, and data visualization. The methods and tools developed will provide an infrastructure that allows researchers to query a semantically structured data repository; facilitate the interpretation and management of retrieved information; and provide methods for manually or automatically adding annotated informat