Links
W3C Standards
- Semantic Web Activity
- Resource Description Framework (RDF) and RDF Schema (RDFS) - see also Dave Beckett's RDF Resource Guide
- Web Ontology Language (OWL)
- SPARQL Query Language for RDF - SPARQL Query Results XML Format - SPARQL Protocol for RDF
- Semantic Web Services Interest Group - Semantic Annotations for Web Services Description Language Working Group (SA-WSDL) - OWL-based Web Service Ontology (OWL-S) (OWL-S W3C submission) - Web Service Modeling Ontology (WSMO) (WSMO W3C submission)
- Gleaning Resource Descriptions from Dialects of Languages (GRDDL)
Industry Uptake
- RDF Support in Oracle DBMS
- Adobe's XMP - eXtensible Metadata Platform: XML/RDF-based metadata framework
- Altova (XML Spy) introduces SemanticWorks - visual Semantic Web design tool for RDF and OWL
- TopQuadrant introduces TopBraid Composer 2.0
- IBM Integrated Ontology Development Toolkit
- Reuters Releases Calais Web Service
Semantic Technologies Companies
Industry Publications
Scientific Journals
Conferences
- International Semantic Web Conferences
- European Semantic Web Conference (2007)
- Asian Semantic Web Conference (2006)
- Semantic Technology Conference
- European Semantic Technology Conference (2007)
- Web Intelligence Conferences
- Web3.0 Conference & Expo
Information Portals
- semanticweb.org
- SemanticWeb Deutschland (in German)
- Semantic Web School (mixed German/English)
- SemWebCentral - Semantic Web Open Source Tools
- SemanticWeb.com - "The Voice of Semantic Web Technology"
Blogs
Tools and Data sets
- OntoSelect - Ontology Search
- Swoogle - Semantic Web Search
- Watson - Semantic Web Search
- DBpedia - Semantic Wikipedia Search
- GeoNames - Semantic Geo Search