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If a friend asks you "what's this semantic web thing I've heard about?", what site would you show them first?

flag	asked Oct 28 at 13:29 steevc 215●6

	Dear Steevc, did you write up a summary of the answers somewhere? Could you link to that perhaps? – Egon Willighagen Mar 14 at 10:19
	@egon I've not had time to do that or even check out all the suggestions. This question doesn't the way this site works as there is no single answer, but it provides a place for people to suggest sites. People can vote up those they like. I've been following progress of semantic web for a few years, but don't do much development myself. – steevc Mar 15 at 11:28

mhermans · Accepted Answer · 2009-11-02 19:21:25Z UTC

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Suggestions:

DBPedia faceted browser and example queries;
Aggregate data with Sigma (to show the interlinkedness);
PLOS website (to show a big site, running on semweb tech);
RDFa for SEO in Yahoo!-searches, for example for ebusinesses.

edited Nov 2 at 19:21

answered Oct 30 at 0:05

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Pēteris Caune · Answer 2 · 2009-10-30 16:41:39Z UTC

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Freebase Parallax, the faceted browser on top of Freebase data.

answered Oct 30 at 16:41

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Andrew Matthews · Answer 3 · 2009-10-28 22:43:13Z UTC

Some very interesting and worthwhile websites are being produced around the world (US,UK, AU, ?).

There's also media management software using RDF and OWL. It's also intellidimension under the hood (like 'this we know'), but it's being used in MS on at least one product:

Microsoft Interactive Media Manager

Semantic web technologies used in defence and intelligence:

semandex

More to follow...

RaduC · Answer 4 · 2009-10-29 15:53:56Z UTC

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Falcons search engine for the Semantic Web.
www.gopubmed.org a knowledge-based search engine for biomedical texts.

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answered Oct 28 at 15:37

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techie · Answer 5 · 2009-10-30 06:13:34Z UTC

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I will show http://semandeks.com. eventhough it is in alpha stages it shows a lot of promise, and makes the concept clearer for a newbie.

answered Oct 30 at 6:13

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Laurent Alquier · Answer 6 · 2009-11-22 19:02:40Z UTC

A full set of Semantic Web demo site is available at :

Semantic Web Company demos

Tools covered by the demos are :

Open Calais
OntoWiki
Neologism (vocabulary editor)
Kiwi
Semantic MediaWiki
Evri (similarity search)
Relation Browser (visualization)
Sig.ma (semantic search with credibility scores)
SIMILE Exhibit (Facetted Browsing)

Could be a good place to test or demo these tools without having to install them yourself.

hoverbee · Answer 7 · 2010-03-02 09:19:59Z UTC

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Just discovered http://relfinder.dbpedia.org/. It has an impressive graphical user interface!

answered Mar 2 at 9:19

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David Larlet · Answer 8 · 2009-10-28 14:58:34Z UTC

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Zemanta if he has a blog.

answered Oct 28 at 14:58

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steevc · Answer 9 · 2009-10-28 16:11:00Z UTC

One that has impressed me recently is the QDOS FOAF query as this is reading data files to present something like you would see in Facebook. Morten Frederiksen's Foaf Explorer has been around for ages, but the QDOS makes it look more like a Facebook profile.

I'd impress on them that all the data was controlled by that person rather than by some corporation and could be used in lots of different ways.

Eylon Yogev · Answer 10 · 2009-10-30 14:15:19Z UTC

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I'd show the www.headup.com site. The only true semantic web application I know.

answered Oct 30 at 14:15

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I can't try Headup due to the Silverlight requirement. What does it do? – steevc Oct 30 at 15:30

Mike Darnell · Answer 11 · 2009-11-01 09:11:01Z UTC

If you're a blogger I'd suggest the Headup Wordpress Plugin: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/headup-bloggers-widget

Reviewed on Wordpressgarage : wordpressgarage.com/plugins/semantic-wordpress-plugin

Disclosure - I'm the project manager for this : )

sprocketonline · Answer 12 · 2009-11-02 13:15:35Z UTC

Not a website, but an image - linkeddata.org's [graph of linked datasets][1] for a quick overview of how it allows things to be linked together and built upon.

For a new user the first site would have to be [http://www.freebase.com][2], and then for a programmer a quick tour of some of the apps built on top of it:

[ASK KEN][3]
[Conflict History][4]
[Freebase Parallax][5]
[Zemanta][6]
1. http: //linkeddata.org/static/images/lod-datasets_2009-03-05-scaled.png
2. http: //www.freebase.com
3. http: //askken.heroku.com/
4. http: //www.conflicthistory.com/
5. http: //www.freebase.com/labs/parallax/
6. http: //www.zemanta.com/

Toby Inkster · Answer 13 · 2009-11-12 11:47:41Z UTC

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Faviki perhaps?

edited Nov 12 at 11:47

answered Oct 28 at 13:46

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Toby, can you make a link on this? If people expand a little on why they think a site is good it would make their answers more useful. Faviki looks interesting, but looks like it's getting some spam. The issue of semantic spam ought to be another question. – steevc Oct 29 at 9:15

Bastian Spanneberg · Answer 14 · 2009-11-12 12:04:35Z UTC

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I'd also consider to show a setup of Semantic MediaWiki, like semanticweb.org, as it combines semantic features with user-generated content.

edited Nov 12 at 12:04

answered Oct 30 at 16:03

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fish0398 · Answer 15 · 2010-01-18 21:03:26Z UTC

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Gfacet.org - graph-based faceted exploration of RDF data

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steevc · Answer 16 · 2010-01-21 09:41:06Z UTC

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http://data.gov.uk/ has just gone public. It presents linked data from UK government sources for people to re-use. Sir Tim Berners-Lee has been involved and so Semantic Web gets mentioned on the front page.

answered Jan 21 at 9:41

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steevc · Answer 17 · 2010-02-15 09:24:06Z UTC

Possibly one of the biggest consumers of semantic data at the moment could be Google with its Social Graph API. They are using it to pick up XFN and FOAF data from a person's linked Google Profile pages for their social search and the new Buzz service. In my case it's working out who my contacts are using FOAF data on identi.ca and suggesting results from their updates in social search.

sagganitra · Answer 18 · 2010-02-28 08:22:50Z UTC

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You may also like to see Sparallax, an adaptation of Freebase Parallax for RDF datasets.

answered Feb 28 at 8:22

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Rooland · Answer 19 · 2010-03-10 16:44:26Z UTC

Frankly, I don't have friends that would have heard of the semantic web :-/

But if I were to explain to them why the semantic web is so exciting, I would point them to a semantic web application that they can immediately "get" and also find useful.

Topicmarks, for example, uses the semantic web to offer machine reading to the individual. Just launched in public beta, it is already attracting many users trying to cope with their daily information overflow.

Oddmund · Answer 20 · 2010-06-15 18:15:13Z UTC

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I've shown people http://www.trueknowledge.com/.

When you've entered a query it manages to answer, press "How do we know?" and then "See reasoning" which explicitly lists the reasoning behind the answer.

answered Jun 15 at 18:15

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thanks for the "see reasoning hint", that's indeed a nice look inside the mechanism of the website. – Bastian Spanneberg Jun 17 at 10:05

What web site would you use to show the power of the semantic web?

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