Semantic Web Resource Guide

Let's start with definitions:

• Semantic Web Encyclopedia of Terms:
  http://seokeywordanalysis.com/seotools/infobase/semanticweb/
• Term: "Semantic Web"
  http://seokeywordanalysis.com/seotools/infobase/semanticweb/1.htm
• The Wikipedia entry:
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic_Web

Lets review some high-level articles about the Semantic Web.

• "What the frell is the Semantic Web?":
  http://www.decafbad.com/blog/tech/old/ooocae
• The Scientific American article by Tim Berners-Lee, James Hendler and Ora Lassila:
  • "The Semantic Web: A new form of Web content that is meaningful to computers will unleash a revolution of new possibilities"
  • http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?articleID=00048144-10D2-1C70-84A9809EC588EF21
• Article: "The Future of the Semantic Web"
  http://www2.fmg.uva.nl/sociosite/websoc/semantic.html
• "A No-Nonsense Guide to Semantic Web Specs for XML People [Part I]"
  http://www.betaversion.org/~stefano/linotype/news/57/

Tim Berners-Lee's basic ideas can be found here:

• Tim Berners Lee's Semantic Web Road map:
  http://w3.org/DesignIssues/Semantic
• His "Design Issues" page:
  • http://w3.org/DesignIssues/Overview.html
  • (see his other links under "A roadmap to the Semantic Web (Sept 98)"

What about ontology?

• In philosophy:
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ontology
• In computer science:
  • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ontology_%28computer_science%29
  • "What is an Ontology?"
    http://www-ksl.stanford.edu/kst/what-is-an-ontology.html

Here are the W3.org's basic Semantic Web links:

• Semantic Web Activity page:
  http://w3.org/2001/sw/
• Semantic Web Activity Statement:
  http://w3.org/2001/sw/Activity
• W3.org Semantic Web Specifications:
  http://w3.org/2001/sw/#spec
• Publications and Presentations:
  http://w3.org/2001/sw/
• RDF:
  http://www.w3.org/RDF/
• RDF Primer:
  http://w3c.org/TR/rdf-primer/
• OWL:
  http://www.w3.org/2004/OWL/
• SPARQL Query Language for RDF:
  http://www.w3.org/TR/rdf-sparql-query/

Check out these other interesting general links.

• SemWebCentral:
  http://semwebcentral.org/
• SemanticWeb.org:
  • New site under construction:
    http://www.semanticweb.org/
  • Old site:
    http://www.semanticweb.org/index_old.html

Finally, here are some links to links.

• Google Web Directory Semantic Web Category:
  • Reference > Knowledge Management > Knowledge Representation > Semantic Web
  • http://directory.google.com/Top/Reference/Knowledge_Management/Knowledge_Representation/Semantic_Web/
• My personal Semantic Web link collection:
  http://www.backflip.com/members/cyberjet/12012498/sort=0/