CubicWeb is a semantic web application framework, licensed under the LGPL, that empowers developers to efficiently build web applications by reusing components (called cubes) and following the well known object-oriented design principles.
Its main features are:
an engine driven by the explicit data model of the application ,
a query language named RQL similar to W3C's SPARQL ,
This page gives an overview of software tools related to the Semantic Web or to semantic technologies in general. Due to the large amount of tools being created in the community, this site is always somewhat outdated. Contributions and updates are welcomed.
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The MetaWeb Project is an example application for the exchange of messages in the Semantic Web. It offers the possibility to add individual and standardised markings on Websides, Blogs, Feeds, Images or Web Services. On the other hand it is possible to create search profiles with the same method, so that the hits are of a high quality because of the matching of the meta descriptions. Markings and search profiles can be given out in the RDF format or be parsed on the pages CodeInput (for markings) and AnglerInput (for search profiles).
OWL is a Web Ontology language. Where earlier languages have been used to develop tools and ontologies for specific user communities (particularly in the sciences and in company-specific e-commerce applications), they were not defined to be compatible with the architecture of the World Wide Web in general, and the Semantic Web in particular.
The Semantic Web provides a common framework that allows data to be shared and reused across application, enterprise, and community boundaries. It is a collaborative effort led by W3C with participation from a large number of researchers and industrial partners. It is based on the Resource Description Framework (RDF). See also the separate FAQ for further information.
Dataverse Network\nHost a Dataverse Network to provide your institution with archiving capabilities, centralized data library and access to additional repositories federating with other installations.
Networked Environment for Personalized, Ontology-based Management of Unified Knowledge
NEPOMUK brings together researchers, industrial software developers, and representative industrial users, to develop a comprehensive solution for extending the personal desktop into a collaboration environment which supports both the personal information management and the sharing and exchange across social and organizational relations.
Create a Semantic Web Portal, demonstrating the maturity of Semantic Web technology in a real application. The technology, which we will develop together with industrial partners, during the course of the project, will be applicable to community portals for different communities.
the metaweb project ~ find and be found
The MetaWeb Project is an example application for the exchange of messages in the Semantic Web. It offers the possibility to add individual and standardised markings on Websides, Blogs, Feeds, Images or Web Services. On the other hand it is possible to create search profiles with the same method, so that the hits are of a high quality because of the matching of the meta descriptions. Markings and search profiles can be given out in the RDF format or be parsed on the pages CodeInput (for markings) and AnglerInput (for search profiles).
JeromeDL is a Social Semantic Digital Library. As a digital library, it allows institutions to easily publish documents on the Web. It supports a variety of document formats and allows to store and query a rich bibliographic description of each document. To find relevant documents in JeromeDL users can use searching and browsing features. Whole documents content can be searched through, as well as single fields of the documents description, like author or publish year. Users can also find documents by rowsing content of subject categories and keywords.
Semantic Web technologies are moving beyond the laboratory and finding a role in the wider business world. Traditional companies such as Reuters and Oracle are putting semantic technologies to work, and startups are attracting increasing venture capital investment.