The Semantic Web is the extension of the World Wide Web that enables people to share content beyond the boundaries of applications and websites. It has been described in rather different ways: as a utopic vision, as a web of data, or merely as a natural paradigm shift in our daily use of the Web. Most of all, the Semantic Web has inspired and engaged many people to create innovative semantic technologies and applications. semanticweb.org is the common platform for this community.

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Making Television More Personal NoTube is a European project exploring television's future in the ubiquitous Web.

Freebase connects you with 11,983,780 topics across the web

Semantic Web Services, like conventional web service s, are the server end of a client-server system for machine-to-machine interaction via the World Wide Web. Semantic services are a component of the semantic web because they use markup which makes data machine-readable in a detailed and sophisticated way (as compared with human-readable HTML ...

In computer science, the Semantic Desktop is a collective term for ideas related to changing a computer's user interface and data handling capabilities so that data is more easily shared between different applications or tasks and so that data that once could not be automatically processed by a computer could be. It also encompasses some ideas about being able to ...

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SPITFIRE: Semantic-Service Provisioning for the Internet of Things using Future Internet Research by Experimentation

my6sense's super duper AI (artificial intelligence) technology learns what is most important to you based on your consumption habits, serving you as a digital sense, or as we call it 'Digital Intuition'. There is nothing you need to do other than simply use the service like you would any other reader/aggregator. No preferences need to be set. No surveys to fill out. No blood samples needed. The m6s service 'senses' your interactions with every message; whether you click on it, ignore it or share it. Just use the service naturally, and the Digital Intuition magic will come your way – connecting you with your most important content on your iPhone.

SPARQL Working Group Wiki\nThis is the wiki page for the SPARQL Working Group (charter). It is editable by members of the the working group. W3C members may join the working group. Others may appeal to a working group chair for invited expert status. See also previous (Data Access) Working Group homepage.

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is an international community where Member organizations, a full-time staff, and the public work together to develop Web standards.

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DERI Vocabularies is a URI space for RDF Schema vocabularies and OWL ontologies maintained at DERI, the Digital Enterprise Research Institute at NUI Galway, Ireland. The site is operated by DERI's Linked Data Research Centre. 

SMOB is a Semantic MicroBlogging framework that enables an open, distributed and semantic microblogging experience based on state-of-the-art Semantic Web and Linked Data technologies. It relies on distributed hubs that communicate each other to exchange microblog posts and subscriptions (i.e. following / followers). Anyone can install his own hub and start following other users, while SMOB also allows cross-posting on other platforms such as Twitter.

Pelorus is a faceted navigation tool for browsing, searching, and discovering information in complex large data sets. Using an easy-to-learn interface, Pelorus allows users to interact with data in a powerful and simple. Pelorus uses W3C standards like SPARQL, RDF, and OWL to deliver a powerful tool that ordinary people can use to slice and dice data.