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

• True Knowledge
• Twine
• Zepheira
• Powerset
• Talis
• Hakia
• Zemanta
• Peer39
• Garlik
• Expert System
• Siri

Industry Publications

• SemanticReport

Scientific Journals

• Web Semantics
• Web Intelligence and Agent Systems
• Applied Ontology

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

• ....more semantic!

Tools and Data sets

• OntoSelect - Ontology Search
• Swoogle - Semantic Web Search
• Watson - Semantic Web Search
• DBpedia - Semantic Wikipedia Search
• GeoNames - Semantic Geo Search