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Tuesday Oct 31, 2006

250 Semantic Web Tools

James Gosling recently quoted Lao Tzu: "The journey of a thousand miles begins beneath one's feet.". This is so true, I have a picture for it.

To know where we stand now on the Semantic Web, nothing can be more helpful than the list of 250 Semantic Web Tools put together by Mike Bergman. This is nearly large enough to justify a small online doap database.

Posted at 12:09PM Oct 31, 2006 [permalink/trackback] by Henry Story in SemWeb | Comments[6]

Comments:

Danny Ayers, put together a short xslt stylesheet to turn the tables in into doap rdf which he made available here. Cool. This could be really useful starting point. Just need a SPARQL endpoint, to query it.

Posted by Henry Story on October 31, 2006 at 07:49 PM CET #

Well one can query Danny's doap file using Tabulator. Now it's just a matter for some of the sites to put links to their doap files on their home page for this to be really interesting. Any techniques on how to do this?

Posted by Henry Story on November 01, 2006 at 12:16 AM CET #

One should also consult the extensive RDF guide put together by Dave Becket.

Posted by Henry Story on November 01, 2006 at 12:21 AM CET #

You can use DOAP auto-discovery to link tool homepages to their DOAP profiles.

Install Semantic Radar for Firefox and it shall alert you of home pages that contain DOAP auto-discovery info (look for a DOAP icon in browser's status bar). Here are some sample pages that contain links to DOAP:

http://projects.apache.org/projects/ant.html
http://crschmidt.net/doap/doaper.html

Posted by CaptSolo on November 01, 2006 at 03:03 PM CET #

Very neat. I had in fact just installed Semantic Radar last week. But thanks for pointing me to two good examples. I'll try to make sure all my projects are correctly set up :-)

Posted by Henry Story on November 01, 2006 at 03:44 PM CET #

And if you have any ideas, suggestion or bugfixes for Semantic Radar please send them to the SIOC-Dev mailing list or directly to me. :-)

Posted by CaptSolo on November 01, 2006 at 05:59 PM CET #

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