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Useful Links

Link summary

Semantic Web links

Websites and pages linked to from this page provide further information on and/or illustration of concepts pertinent to IAF action lines. Clearly, these links represent only very small samples compared with the large number of hits that would be returned by popular search engines (such as Google, Hotbot or Altavista).

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Semantic Web links

W3C sources

The World Wide Web Consortium - the W3C portal with links to W3C activities

The W3C Semantic Web Activity page

The views of Tim Berners-Lee: Semantic Web roadmap; World Wide Web Design Issues

Organisations

SemanticWeb.org - the Semantic Web Community Portal, maintained by Stefan Decker

Ontology.Org - Enabling Virtual Business - a business & technology forum to help accelerate the adoption of e-commerce in areas such as procurement, supply chain, value chain, virtual community, brokerage and syndication.

DAML.org - the Homepage of the DARPA Agent Markup Language (DAML) Program

XML.org - a forum for XML-based business solutions, organized by OASIS, the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards

XMLfr - a French XML forum

Foundation for Intelligent Physical Agents (FIPA) - a non-profit organisation aimed at producing standards for the interoperation of heterogeneous software agents

AgentLink - an IST-funded Network of Excellence for agent-based computing and its Special Interest Goup on Intelligent Information Agents

Project links and bibliographies

Project Aristotle(sm): Automated Categorization of Web Resources - a list of Web projects and project publications

KBS/Ontology Projects Worldwide - references to knowledge-base projects, groups, and related material (mailing lists, journals, proceedings, conferences and workshops)

Formal Ontology and Conceptual Analysis: A Structured Bibliography - compiled by Massimiliano Carrara (University of Padova) and Nicola Guarino (LADSEB-CNR, Padova)

Selected projects

On-To-Knowledge - Content-driven Knowledge-Management through Evolving Ontologies (IST project)

IBROW - An Intelligent Brokering Service for Knowledge-Component Reuse on the World-Wide Web (IST project)

LEAP - Lightweight Extensible Agent Platform (IST project)

EXMO - Computer mediated exchange of structured knowledge (INRIA Grenoble)

ACACIA - Acquisition des connaissances pour l'assistance a la conception par interaction entre agents (INRIA Sophia Antipolis)

C-Web - Supporting Community-Webs (Community Web, INRIA)

KIRMIT - Knowledge-based Indexing and Retrieval of Multimedia Information (SWI, University of Amsterdam and IMSE, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)

SHOE - Simple HTML Ontology Extensions (University of Maryland)

AKT - 'Advanced Knowledge Technologies' to support organizational knowledge management (Interdisciplinary Research Collaboration (IRC) funded by the UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC))

Protege-2000 - tools for ontology construction and knowledge editing (interdiciplinary Stanford Medical Informatics initiative)

Non-technical or survey articles

The Semantic Web: A Primer (and more articles from XML.com, such as Primed for the Semantic Web)

XML and the Second Generation Web (Scientific American, feature article, May 1999)

Is There an Intelligent Agent in Your Future? (by James Hendler, Nature, March 1999)

The future of television: Metadata in the new millenium (Broadcast Engineering, December 1999)

Semantic Research for Digital Libraries (DLib Magazine, October 1999

XML resources & tutorials

Extensible Markup Language (XML) - the W3C XML entry point

XML.com - resources, tutorials, guides, toolboxes, events, ...

XMLephant - 'the big XML resource'

Apache XML Project - open source XML software

xFront.com - Tutorials on XMLSchema and XSL

XML School - introductory texts and tutorials

RDF resources & tutorials

Resource Description Framework (RDF) - the W3C RDF entry point

Dave Beckett's Resource Description Framework (RDF) Resource Guide (examples, documents, software, tools and projects)

RDF survey - a comprehensive list of links to RDF resources

An introduction to RDF - Exploring the standard for Web-based metadata (introductory text by Uche Ogbuji)

RDF Site Summary (RSS) - a lightweight multipurpose extensible metadata description and syndication format

Notation 3 - Ideas about Web Architecture - yet another notation (by Tim Berners-Lee)

Ontology resources & tutorials

Ontologies for the Semantic Web - maintained by Alexander Maedche & York Sure

Ontology Inference Layer OIL - a web-based representation and inference layer for ontologies

Descriptive and Formal Ontology - a slightly philosophical approach with useful links

SemanticWeb.org - the Markup Languages and Ontologies page at SemanticWeb.org

AI Techniques for Knowledge Management - tutorial including ontologies in a corporate knowledge management context

Agent resources

Agent-Based Systems - a 'small' portal maintained by Sverker Janson, Swedish Institute of Computer Science

Intelligent Agents WWW sites - references to agent R&D compiled by Gary Spiers of Lancaster University

multiagent-bookmarks - maintained on multiagent.com by Jose M. Vidal (University of South Carolina)

DAML-0-5 - W3C discussion document on the Darpa Agent Markup Language

Multimedia special

The MPEG Home Page

MPEG-7 (Multimedia Content Description Interface) - a 'small' MPEG7 portal

SMIL Synchronized Multimedia - the W3C multimedia page

NEuroNet Roadmap - on the Use of Neural Networks and Other Computational Intelligence Techniques in Intelligent Multimedia Systems (NEuroNet: Network of Excellence in Neural Networks)

Multimedia - notes and pointers

Mobile special

CC/PP W3C Working Group (RDF-based framework for the management of device profile information)

WAP Wireless Markup Language Specification (WML)

Designing Wireless Information Services (Book by Johan Hjelm)

Related approaches / initiatives

Topic Maps

Notion System

The Data Grid (IST project) - part of a global scientific computing initiative to share computing and data resources across widely distributed scientific communities