Cycorp, Inc., based in Austin, Texas was founded by computer science pioneer and Stanford professor Douglas Lenat to to codify, in machine-usable form, the millions of pieces of knowledge that comprise human common sense in Cyc.

Unlike traditional search engines, which crawl the Web gathering Web pages, Semantic Web search engines index RDF dat...

Linking open data community project

The Semantic Web is an evolving extension of the World Wide Web in which the meaning of information and services on the web is defined, making it possible for the web to understand and satisfy the requests of people and machines to use the web content.[1] [2] It derives from W3C director Tim Berners-Lee's vision of the Web as a universal medium for data, information, and knowledge .....

The Semantic Web Science Association (SWSA) is a non-profit organisation incorporated in Karlsruhe, Germany for the purpose of promoting and exchanging scholarly work in Semantic Web and related fields throughout the world. The association's activities are selfless; its main objectives do not concern any own economic interests.

Semantic Web pipes are a simple paradigm for online information transformation and mixing

We want to make all the world's content more accessible, interoperable and valuable. Some call it Web 2.0, Web 3.0, the semantic web or the Giant Global Graph - we call our piece of it Calais. The core of Calais is our web service. We're working to make this service more accessible by developing sample applications, supporting developers and offering bounties for specific capabilities.

At Franz, our goal is to provide the infrastructure for a new level of data integration and application interoperability, by delivering the potential of Semantic Technologies - Today.

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is an international consortium where Member organizations, a full-time staff, and the public work together to develop Web standards. W3C primarily pursues its mission through the creation of Web standards and guidelines designed to ensure long-term growth for the Web. Over 400 organizations are Members of the Consortium. W3C is jointly run by the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (MIT CSAIL) in the USA, the European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics (ERCIM) headquartered in France, Keio University in Japan, and has additional Offices worldwide.