A metamodel is a precise definition of the constructs and rules needed for creating semantic models...an attempt at describing the world around us for a particular purpose.
In an attempt to summarize the relationship among various metadata formats and how they relate to building Internet systems I wrote a glossary. I then ordered and tied the terms together with a bit of narrative to explain the relationships among the terms
The Suggested Upper Merged Ontology (SUMO) and its domain ontologies form the largest formal public ontology in existence today. They are being used for research and applications in search, linguistics and reasoning. SUMO is the only formal ontology that
"Swoogle is a search engine for the Semantic Web on the Web. Swoogle crawl the World Wide Web for a special class of web documents called Semantic Web documents, which are written in RDF."
Discussion of flaws and potential solutions to using social bookmarking sites (from del.icio.us to digg) as folks monetize, abuse, trick, and tweak them: no uniform tagging conventions, flat tag structures (non-relational), overly-generalized tags (catego
OntoSelect monitors the web to provide an access point for ontologies on any possible topic or domain that is automatically updated, organized in a meaningful way and with support for ontology search and selection. Selected ontologies may be used for ins
Unlike vanilla XML, RDF vocabularies can be freely mixed together in data without prior agreement. So you often see ad-hoc combinations of Dublin Core, RSS1, MusicBrainz, RDF-calendar, FOAF, Wordnet, thesaurus, Geo-info etc etc frequently deployed togethe
This piece speaks about the different parts of the Semantic Web and how they fit together. For a high-level interview, take a look at Sandro Hawke's The Semantic Web (Put Simply). On the other hand, if you're a Web developer who's interested in building S
S. Bloehdorn, and Y. Sure. The Semantic Web --- Proceedings of the 6th International Semantic Web Conference and the 2nd Asian Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2007 + ASWC 2007), November 11-15, 2007, Busan, Korea, volume 4825 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, page 58--71. Springer, Berlin--Heidelberg, Germany, (2007)
B. Hoser, A. Hotho, R. Jäschke, C. Schmitz, and G. Stumme. The Semantic Web: Research and Applications: Proceedings of the 3rd European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2006), Budva, Montenegro, June 11-14, 2006, volume 4011/2006 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, page 514--529. Heidelberg, Springer, (2006)