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DBpedia
DBpedia is a community effort to extract structured information from Wikipedia and to make this information available on the Web. DBpedia allows you to ask sophisticated queries against Wikipedia, and to link other data sets on the Web to Wikipedia data.
Dublin Core Metadata Initiative
The Dublin Core Metadata Initiative, or "DCMI", is an open organization engaged in the development of interoperable metadata standards that support a broad range of purposes and business models. Semantic Web applications commonly use Dublin Core metadata terms for basic descriptive properties.
Knowledge Web (KW)
A 4 year Network of Excellence project funded by the European Commission 6th Framework Programme. Knowledge Web began on January 1st, 2004. Supporting the transition process of Ontology technology from Academia to Industry is the main and major goal of Knowledge Web. The mission of KnowledgeWeb is to strengthen the European industry and service providers in one of the most important areas of current computer technology: Semantic Web enabled E-work and E-commerce. The project concentrates its efforts around the outreach of this technology to industry. Naturally, this includes education and research efforts to ensure the durability of impact and support of industry.
Reasoning on the Web with Rules and Semantics (REWERSE)
A research "Network of Excellence" (NoE) on "Reasoning on the Web" that is funded by the EU Commission and Switzerland within the "6th Framework Programme" (FP6), Information Society Technologies (IST), Priority 2 under the project reference number 506779. REWERSE addresses the IST strategic action line "Semantic-based knowledge systems".
Semantic Artifacts
An open source research project to build a scalable RDF/OWL triple store with support for RDF/OWL analytic tools. The goal of Semantic Artifacts is to research scalability issues and create a Texas sized RDF/OWL triple store with a trillion triples.
SemanticOverflow
Question and answer site similar to stackoverflow
Semantic Focus
Semantic Focus is a blog and community that centers around the topic of the Semantic Web and anything to do with it. This community was created to focus the effort of reaching the Semantic Web as well as serve as the best reference for anyone who wants learn more about it.