Web Services Directory

iMorph is a technology provider specializing in the transformation of information for dynamic web implementation.

Web-IQ.com is a software research and development company specializing in Semantic Web Services.

The objectives are to develop a roadmap for cutting edge research and commercial application of new web technology, specifically to position RTD projects in Framework VI. Semantic Web, Web Services, and their combination may promise a large stream of successful IST projects helping key action III to strengthen its profile of hosting leading research projects with world wide visibility and impact.

Semantic World is a web community dedicated to the use of semantic information management methods in industry. Semantic World contains relevant news and analysis, a comprehensive resource center, and interactive forums for practitioners of semantic methodologies to share experiences, problems, and initiatives. Semantic World aims to support and influence developing standards for ontology modeling, semantic mapping, and the use of semantic information management methods in IT.

Unicorn has developed a comprehensive architecture for the next generation of data infrastructure. Unicorn enables the enterprise to leverage the value of disparate information assets in a unified information model.

Platypus Wiki is an enhanced Wiki Wiki Web with ideas taken from Semantic Web. We call it a Semantic Wiki Wiki Web. It offers a simple user interface to create a Wiki Page plus metadata according with W3C standards. It uses RDF (Resource Description Framework), RDF Schema, and OWL (Web Ontology Language) to create ontologies and manage metadata.

HP Labs home page for semantic web activity. HP have developed the Jenna Sematic Web Toolkit, a java API for manipulating RDF models. Site includes white papers and a list of leading individuals working on Semantic Web related activities.

Very comprehensive information site concentrating on XML,RDF and OWL. Contains tutorials, worked examples and news. Excellent resources and starting point.

This is the community site for Ontoweb, a European Union founded project about Ontology-based information exchange for knowledge management and electronic commerce.

This site is the home page of Ontology.Org, the consortium of organisations and individuals developing knowledge level models and representations of electronic marketplaces.

The Karlsruhe Ontology (KAON) tool suite builds on RDF and provides specialized tools including: SDK, engineering, discovery, management and presentation of ontologies and metadata. Site includes middleware downloads, whitepapers, specifications and demonstrations. A practical web resource for Semantic web development.

Protégé-2000 is an integrated ontology and knowledge-base editing environment. It provides an open-source, extensible architecture for the creation of customized knowledge-based tools in Java. Protégé-2000 is available as free software under the open-source Mozilla Public License.

The Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA) is an XML-based, end-to-end architecture for authoring, producing, and delivering technical information. This architecture consists of a set of design principles for creating "information-typed" modules at a topic level and for using that content in delivery modes such as online help and product support portals on the Web.

Round up of current Semantic Web standards and development activity authored by Tim Berners-Lee and Eric Miller. Good introduction to the rapidly evolving standards.

FEF supports the conceptual model proposed in Financial Exchange Theory. Financial Exchange Theory provides a basis for the definition of financial entities such as international financial products, financial transactions, financial services and monitoring positions. Financial components, relating to generic functions within international financial markets, are put together following a simple set of rules to create all the above financial entities. FEF is defined as classes, relationships and constraints; actual international financial market entities are recorded as instances. The structure and nature of all financial entities can thus be seen and compared. FEF was created using Stanford University's ontology defining tool, "Protege 2000". FEF is an initiative by International Financial Information Publishing Ltd (Ifip) and has been created based upon the proprietary ‘I-Format’ data model marketed by Ifip for enterprise-wide publication of financial transaction processing data (www.financial-format.com). FEF only contains those components and attributes required to describe Financial Exchange Theory. Initially only a limited number of financial entities will be defined within FEF. FEF is available free of charge.

OpenCyc is the open source version of the Cyc technology, the world's largest and most complete general knowledge base and commonsense reasoning engine. Developers can use CycML to exchange knowledge with one another, and CycML will also allow the KB contents to be imported and exported for archiving.

OWL is a semantic markup language for publishing and sharing ontologies on the World Wide Web. OWL is derived from the DAML+OIL Web Ontology Language [DAML+OIL] and builds upon the Resource Description Framework

KTweb brings together the European projects and people working in information access and knowledge technologies - in research, academia and business - and offers information and resources in these domains at a global level. An good starting point for knowledge technologies information.

In accord with Tim Berners-Lee's vision of a Semantic Web as "an extension of the current one, in which information is given well-defined meaning, better enabling computers and people to work in cooperation", the OntoWeb Network has been set up to provide support for, disseminate information on, and encourage development of, ontologies as the essential technology for the Semantic Web.

SMORE is a tool that allows users to markup their documents in RDF using web ontologies in association with user-specific terms and elements.

A semantic search engine that indexes pages marked up with SHOE, an ontology-based, XML-compatible, knowledge representation language for the Web.

The objective of Esperonto is to form a bridge between the actual Web and the Semantic Web by providing a service to "upgrade" existing content to semantic Web content. Ontologies play a key role in this effort, aiming at unifying, bridging and integrating multiple heterogeneous, international and multilingual digital content.

The Portable Information Access (PIA) project aims to develop a domain adaptable information extraction (IE) system for annotating semantic content in texts. IE systems basically aim to extract proto-typical facts from large collections of texts such as the activations between proteins in molecular biology or the merging and acquisitions of companies in business news. In contrast to other Web-based technologies such as information retrieval (IR) which are characterized by strong portability, no such system as yet exists for IE.

The CoMMA project Corporate Memory Management through Agents aims at developing an open, agent based platform for the management of a corporate memory by using the most advanced results on the technical, the content, and the user interaction level.

Home page for the W3C Semantic Web project. Starting point for information, articles and the summary of W3C projects and activities.