The Semantic Web is the idea of having data on the Web defined and linked in a way that it can be used for more effective discovery, automation, integration, and reuse across various applications. The Resource Description Framework (RDF) is considered to be an important basis for the realisation of this vision. The bib2rdf tool translates the structured data that is contained in BibTeX bibliographies into an RDF-compliant form, which makes a vast amount of bibliographical information available for Semantic Web applications.
With the advent of the semantic web, several projects have started to translate this bibliographic information to RDF. bibtex2rdf is a highly configurable translator from BibTeX to RDF which allows to do exactly that.