May to add here, participants... true This is to describe Researchers, Authors, etc, etc. The Project in the context of which the System was developed The Organisations that participate in the Project The Organisation(s) that are Developing this system/tool The Developers of this system A Person works on a Project What this Document is about:. Can be a Project or a System or none The Organisation -not the publishing house- that publishes the Document A person WorksFor an Organisation (most of the time) The Time Period for the Project.-Event Ie. Start and end dates Where the Event will take place The Current Version and version specific info The title of Something The Date the Document was Published The Dat\e when the current version was released Platform specific info Contact and Address info The HomePage of the Class What a document or an event or a project is aboutt: E.g RDF or Agents or Web Services Mike Dean Kelly Barber Company http://www.bbn.com

BBN Technologies / Verizon 1827 S. Liberty Dr. Liberty Lake, WA 99019

DAML Crawler is a program that collects DAML statements by traversing WWW references and links. Crawler http://www.daml.org/crawler/ Ontology - Agent Markup Languages http://www.daml.org http://www.daml.org/people/mdean/ http://www.w3.org Consortium W3C - IST: Support SW in Europe http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/Europe/ Semantic based Information integration 2002-2004 Semantic Web Ontologies RDF

8-10 Berkeley Square Bristol BS8 1HH

Institute http://www.ilrt.bristol.ac.uk

Bristol, UK

http://www.hpl.hp.com/ Company Unit - Lab The FRODO RDFSViz tool provides a visualization service for ontologies represented in RDF Schema. Java RDF API (Sergey Melnik), Xerces XML parser xml.apache.org, Graphviz graph drawing program (AT&T and Lucent Bell Labs). Visualisation http://www.dfki.uni-kl.de/frodo/RDFSViz/ July 25, 2002 Java v 1.0 http://www.cs.rpi.edu/~puninj/rdfeditor/ http://www.cs.rpi.edu/~puninj/rdfeditor/ Polytechnic Institute

110 8th Street Troy, NY 12180-3590 USA

RDF Editor can be used to write and edit RDF documents. It can easily generate and save N-Triple reports Editor John Punin a knowledge management solution based on Semantic Web technologies to organize, federate and navigate your contents. Company www.mondeca.com waterson@netscape.com hyatt@netscape.com Company David Hyatt http://www.mozilla.org/rdf/doc/ (rjc@netscape.com Robert Churchill RDF browsing Open source development project RDF based integration and aggregation Chris Waterson http://www.deri.at/

Innsbruck, Austria

Research Institute - University affiliated Dan Brickley http://rdfweb.org/ Experimental site experimental linked information system, exploring some interconnected applications of the Semantic Web, beginning with the deployment of FOAF. http://www.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de Institute Siegfried Handschuh R.V. Guha http://www.smi.stanford.edu/ Research Group Company http://www.intellidimension.com http://www.cyc.com/ Company Brian McBride OntoEdit is a development environment for design, adaptation and import of knowledge models for application systems. Ontology Editor http://www.ontoprise.de/com/co_produ_tool3.htm 2.5 http://www.ontoprise.de/ Company Java - Windows VisioDAML is a Visio application to illustrate how Visio can be used to create graphical representations of DAML+OIL ontologies Viewer - Visualisation John Flynn MS Visio Stencil (2000-2002) http://hometown.aol.com/chbussler/ www.deri.ie Research Institute, University affiliated

Galway, Ireland

Chris Bussler

Sofia, Bulgaria

http://www.ontotext.com/ R&D Lab, within Sirma AI Ltd. Data Integration, Semantic Web Services 2004-2006 Integrated Project under the European Commission's 6th Framework Programme with a budget of about 18M euros http://dip.semanticweb.org python RIC is a visual RDF instance authoring tool. Given the URL of an ontology, the file can be loaded into RIC allowing the user to create instances of the resources described in the ontology. Then resulting RDF output can then be saved to a file, or spit out to the console for use in any number of applications v2.73 Michael Groove mhgrove@hotmail.com Authoring tool 27 June 2002 http://www.mindswap.org/~mhgrove/RIC/RIC.html http://www.profium.com/gb/products/download Java This Java software implements a translation process from the RDF/XML document into the corresponding 3-tuple (triple) representation of the underlying data model. Parser 1.01 Company http://www.profium.com/ Research agency (Defence) Discontinued? Research Project Agents, Ontology Company

Latvia

Kalvis Apsitis Univercity http://eikeon.com/ Sean Bechhofer v. 3.4 http://oiled.man.ac.uk/ http://www.networkinference.com/ Company Gary Ng University http://www.vu.nl/ Ontology Editor Java OilEd is an ontology editor allowing the user to build ontologies using DAML+OIL Daniel Krech

DFKI GmbH Erwin-Schr�dinger-Stra�e D-67608 Kaiserslautern

http://www.dfki.uni-kl.de/ http://informatik.uibk.ac.at

Innsburg, Austria

Research institute, University affiliated Ontology based information exchnage Research project, IST http://ontoweb.semanticweb.org/ Kknowledge management Electronic commerce http://www.starlab.vub.ac.be

Brussels, Belgium

University Lab Research Institute - W3C Europe

Inria, France

http://www.inrialpes.fr http://www.upm.es/

Madrid, Spain

University 2002-2004 (Closed) Suit of RDF tools http://nestroy.wi-inf.uni-essen.de/xwmf/

Gernamy

RDF parser, query system and visualiser XWMF (eXtensible Web Modeling Framework) evaluates the suitability of RDF as a basis for modeling web based information systems. XWMF is based on the Resource Description Framework (RDF) Reinhold Klapsing Parser, Validator, Storage http://wonkituck.wi-inf.uni-essen.de/rdfs.html Wolfram Conen/Xonar This service is based on Jan Wielemaker's (very nice) SWI-Prolog (3.4.0), his (fast) SGML/RDF parser and an adaptation of his CGIServ stuff by Wolfram. Prolog + Tcl Parser SWI-Prolog package for SGML / HTML / XML / RDF handling Prolog 1.6.0 Version 1.6.0 to be released sometime in August. RDF Server Python Redfoot is an extensible RDF server written in Python for building a Semantic Web of P2P nodes. It utilizes RDFLib and is currently being developed by Daniel Krech. Non-profit organisation aimed at producing standards for the interoperation of heterogeneous software agents. http://www.fipa.org/ christop@ics.forth.gr Vassilis Christophides http://www.ics.forth.gr

Chania, Greece

Institute July 11, 2002 Storage and Query v0.9.5.1 (beta3) RDF Gateway is a platform for Semantic Web development, combining the capabilities of an RDF data management system with a full-featured web server. http://www.intellidimension.com/RDFGateway/beta3/ http://www.desire.org/ 1998-2000 The DESIRE project ran from July 1998 until June 2000 and was a collaboration between project partners working at ten institutions from four European countries - the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden and the UK. The project's focus was on enhancing existing European information networks for research users across Europe through research and development in three main areas of activity: Caching, Resource Discovery and Directory Services. Research Project 2001 University lab http://www-db.stanford.edu http://edutella.jxta.org/ RDF based Metadata infrastructure JXTA 2001- Open source development Stefan Decker RFD language (query - inference) Michael Sintek http://triple.semanticweb.org/ Java - Jena TRIPLE is an RDF query, inference, and transformation language for the Semantic Web The Components for Ontology Driven Information Push (CODIP) PHP 06-20-2002 v1.1 http://phpxmlclasses.sourceforge.net/ Port of Repat RDF parser to PHP. Repat is an event driven parser for RDF producing events as RDF statements are discovered. Parser Luis Argerich Rogerio http://www.fzi.de

Karsruhe, Germany

Research Institute, University affiliated

Thessaloniki, Greece

www.iti.gr Research Institute Jena is a java API for manipulating RDF models http://www.hpl.hp.com/semweb/jena-top.html Jeremy Carroll Java 1.5.0 Dave Reynolds API Andy Seaborne Ian Dickinson Schema-based DAML document validator http://www.daml.org/validator/ Validator Dave Ragger 2002.08.08 Java http://www.w3.org/People/Sandro Sandro Hawke Toolkit Oct 4, 2001 A toolset and grammar system that converts between any format and RDF/XML http://www.w3.org/2001/06/blindfold/grammar Jason Diamond http://www.megginson.com David Megginson Parser A streaming, Java- and SAX2-based filter and handler interface for RDF processing. This interface does not build an in-memory tree, and should be suitable for very large RDF documents. Java http://rdf-filter.sourceforge.net/ http://www.ilrt.bristol.ac.uk/people/cmdjb/ Dave Beckett Redland is a library that provides a high-level interface for RDF (2002-06-08) http://www.redland.opensource.ac.uk/ 0.9.11 Perl, Python, Tcl, Java or Ruby RDF Library - API http://www.daml.org/viewer/ DAML Viewer, allowing navigation among the instances represented in a given DAML page Windows v1.0 Jan Winkler Open source editor for RDF/XML 25/2/2001 http://www.jan-winkler.de/dev/e_rdfe.htm Editor IST Research project University www.ntua.gr

UK

http://www.bt.com/ Company http://km.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de/fzi/vision/ Ontologies Knowledge management 2002-2003 RDF Parser Based on Expat and SiRPAC Written and integrated into libwww by John Punin http://www.w3.org/Library/src/HTRDF C, expat Parser 2004-2008 http://www.pms.ifi.lmu.de/ University

Muncih, Germany

Reasoning on the web IST, Network of Excellence http://www.rewerse.net University http://www.shef.ac.uk/

UK

Web interface to check DAML+OIL ontologies and content using Jena Research & development project Ontology based annotation Ontology based query answering Ontology based inference engine http://www.ontoprise.de/products/ontobroker_en 1997-2000 http://www.ontoprise.de/products/ontobroker_en The inference engine OntoBroker® processes ontologies. Ontology based Inference engine Parser http://injektilo.org/rdf/repat.html C 2000-12-24 In C by Jason Diamond, based on Java RDF Filter by Dave Megginson. Unix and Win32, open source Java - Open Source Web based RDF metadata management and search system http://www.dublincore.org/ Research Forum http://eor.dublincore.org/ Non Profit Membership Organisation http://www.oclc.org Framework - Suite Sesame is an Open Source RDF Schema-based Repository and Querying facility http://sesame.aidministrator.nl/ Sesame 0.6 http://sesame.aidministrator.nl/ Compnay Storag and Query Sep 3, 2002 Emmanuel Pietriga Viewer - Visualisation IsaViz is a visual environment for browsing and authoring RDF models represented as graphs http://www.w3.org/2001/11/IsaViz/ Latest version: 1.1 Java http://www.almaden.ibm.com/software/km/index.shtml TAP KB: Upper Ontology to bootstrap SW University Lab http://www.ksl.stanford.edu/ Semantic Web: System to punlish and consume data in the SW Research & Development project http://tap.stanford.edu/ An RDF query engine written in Java with in-memory and (Postgres) SQL backend support. http://swordfish.rdfweb.org/rdfquery/ Query Libby Miller 2002-07-26 0.70, Open Source Java, Postgress Colorizes and cross-references definitions in DAML ontologies, generating a web page to view Viewer - Visualiser http://www.ics.forth.gr/proj/isst/RDF/ Dimitris Plexousakis dp@ics.forth.gr Java Suite Set of RDF applications: RDF Query language (RQL), RDF Schema, special database (RSSDB) and Validating RDF Parser (VRP) Greg Carvounarakis Ontologies www.semanticworl.org Community - Portal http://www.semanticworld.org/staticpages/index.php?page=20030415122905865 On Hold Business models International open effort Company http://fourthought.com/ Art Barstow. http://www.w3.org/People/Barstow/ Sergey Melnik http://www-db.stanford.edu/~melnik/ http://www-db.stanford.edu University

Stanford CA

Parser a Java RDF/XML parser deisigned to integrate with Jena http://www-uk.hpl.hp.com/people/jjc/arp/index.html Java Company http://www.semanticwebserver.com/ http://www.semanticwebserver.com/ Framework - Suite k42 v1.1 Empolis k42 SemanticWebServer is the next generation of information and knowledge management technologies. Combining powerful metadata standards such as TopicMaps and RDF with scalable back-end persistence, easy deployment, a SOAP enabled metadata service and powerful UI components; the SWS (SemanticWebServer) provides all the necessary aspects to deploy a complete information and knowledge management solution. Framework-Suite http://www.ksl.stanford.edu/software/chimaera/ Chimaera is a software system that supports users in creating and maintaining distributed ontologies on the web. Two major functions it supports are merging multiple ontologies together and diagnosing individual or multiple ontologies Open source version of CYC project Formalise - Capture common sense Ontology development 2002- http://www.opencyc.org/ Prot�g�-2000 is an ontology and knowledge-base editor. April 10, 2002 1.7 Ontology Editor Java open source dieter.fensel@uibk.ac.at http://knowledgeweb.semanticweb.org Semantic Web outreach to industry, research and education KnowledgeWeb is a project of the Information Society Technologies (IST) Program for Research, Technology Development & Demonstration 2004-2007 Dieter Fensel (Prof.) http://infomesh.net/sbp/ Sean Palmer Company http://vis.home.mindspring.com/ a Prolog-based consistency checker for DAML+OIL ontologies Validator http://vis.home.mindspring.com/ Prolog Based Annotea is a LEAD (Live and Early ADoption) project enhancing the W3C collaboration environment with shared annotations using W3C standards. http://annotest.w3.org/ Java Downloads RDF documents from the Web and builds a Knowledge Base Crawler, Storage 27/11/2000 http://ontobroker.semanticweb.org/rdfcrawl/index.html Database rdfDB is intended to be a simple, scalable, open-source database for RDF http://www.guha.com/rdfdb/ 0.46 http://www.interdataworking.com/converter A testbed converter that supports automatic translation from UML/XMI to RDFS/RDF/XML Aditya Kalyanpur Perl module implements a translation process from the RDF/XML document into the corresponding 3-tuple (triple) representation of the underlying data model. http://www.profium.com/gb/products/download 1.04 perl Parser Company

Spain

http://www.isoco.com/en/ The program compiles RDF/XML documents into triples of the data model. It uses Simple API to XML (SAX) Java http://www.w3.org/RDF/Validator/ Parser v 0.7.0 Company Unit http://www.grci.com/main.htm

Virginia

The DAML API is a collection of Java interfaces and utility classes that implements an interface for manipulating DAML ontologies. Java http://sylvester.va.grci.com/mariasite/codipsite/ Raptor is a C RDF parser library for my Redland RDF application framework C http://www.redland.opensource.ac.uk/raptor/ 0.9.5 Parser (2002-06-08) Parser http://www.profium.com/gb/products/extractor Profium Semantic Information Router (SIR) can extract Resource Description Framework RDF metadata from various file formats. Metadata Extractor University

Drexel University

http://plan.mcs.drexel.edu/ http://fourthought.com/4SuiteServer/ In Python - Open Source. Processing XML, RDF-based sort and query. Frameworks - Suites Develop and exploit the knowledge technologies which underlie Next Generation Knowledge Management. 2004-2006 Research & Development 6th Framework http://sekt.semanticweb.org/ Ontologies Development of Ontologies - Ontology tools IST R&D Project OWL http://wonderweb.man.ac.uk/index.shtml 2002-2004 Knowledge representation formalisms 2000-? Reseach project http://www.inrialpes.fr/exmo/cooperation/escrire/Pres-escrire-2000/ Document annotation Java API This is a draft of an RDF API provided for a public discussion. The API defines interfaces for parsing and accessing RDF models as sets of statements http://www-db.stanford.edu/~melnik/rdf/api.html 19/01/2001 www.isi.edu Research Institute Version 3 Trellis is an interactive environment that allows users to add their observations, viewpoints, and conclusions as they analyze information by making semantic annotations to documents and other on-line resources. http://www.isi.edu/ikcap/trellis Web based Environment for Semantic annotations joe@plan.mcs.drexel.edu Joe Kopena beta Joseki is an implementation of an experiemental NetAPI for the Jena RDF framework. API-RDF Server http://www-uk.hpl.hp.com/people/afs/Joseki/ Java

Australia

http://www.dstc.edu.au/ Research Organisation Mike Olson Suite The Karlsruhe Ontology and Semantic Web Tool Suite. RDFS Ontology management 2001 Java J2SE 1.4.0_01, JBoss 3.0 (optional), Tomcat 4.0.3 (optional) 1.2.7 http://kaon.semanticweb.org/ Uche Ogbuji Query Versa is a specialized language for addressing and querying an RDF model http://metadata.net/dstc/ Editor The aim of the Reggie Metadata Editor is to enable the easy creation of various forms of metadata with the one flexible program. As it stands, the Reggie applet can create metadata using the HTML 3.2 standard, the HTML 4.0 standard, the RDF (Resource Description Framework) format and the RDF Abbreviated format. Java 2002-2005 Ontologies http://www.esperonto.net/semanticportal/jsp/frames.jsp Research - IST project Service to "upgrade" existing content to Semantic Web content. HyperDAML is a tool which produces an HTML hypertext version of a DAML or RDF document Java 2, JAXP 1.1 http://www.daml.org/2001/04/hyperdaml/ Viewer Java http://iama.rrecktek.com/~aditkal/rdf.html he RDF Web Scraper is a tool that helps users specify how to extract RDF markup from these kinds of web pages Authoring tool API Eep3 is a general Semantic Web API written in Python, with various features http://infomesh.net/2002/eep3/ July 3, 2002 python Alpha Validate - Query 17/08/2001 http://plan.mcs.drexel.edu/projects/legorobots/design/software/DAMLJessKB/ Java+Web based This software is intended to facilitate reading DAML files, interpreting the information as per the DAML language, and allowing the user to query on that information http://www.cs.umd.edu/projects/plus/SHOE/ Discontinued Academic project, specification proposal High level Ontology specification Query Java SQL-like language based on Jena RDF Java system. Open source