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The Semantic Web is the extension of the World Wide Web that enables people to share content beyond the boundaries of applications and websites. It has been described in rather different ways: as a utopic vision, as a web of data, or merely as a natural paradigm shift in our daily use of the Web. Most of all, the Semantic Web has inspired and engaged many people to create innovative semantic technologies and applications. semanticweb.org is the common platform for this community.

You can extend semanticweb.org. Make sure that your favourite semantic tool, event, or ontology is here!

SemTech2008 (San Jose (CA), 19 May 2008), QuASAR (Manchester, 1 June 2008), SFSW2008 (Tenerife, 2 June 2008), SeMMA2008 (Tenerife, 2 June 2008), SemWiki2008 (Costa Adeje, Tenerife, 2 June 2008)  view all events …

The following Semantic Web tools have been recently released: NeOn Toolkit (Version 1.1, 15 May 2008), Owlgres (Version 0.1, 7 May 2008), RDF2Go (Version 4.6.1, 30 April 2008), Internet Business Logic (Version 1.0, 30 April 2008), and Sesame (Version 2.1, 24 April 2008) view all tools …

• May 21 2008. Various new templates are now available to better cross-link the data on semanticweb.org. Namely, these are Template:Institution data (example), Template:Location data (example), and Template:Latest releases (example). These should also help to give pages of organisations, locations, and tool categories a more unified look.
• May 9 2008. It is now possible to subscribe to event calendars and RSS feeds of new tool releases. Links can be found on the main page, and in many other places. Staying up-to-date with the Semantic Web could hardly be more convenient.
• April 24 2008. semanticweb.org receives a new look and content organisation. Please contribute your tools, events, and ontologies!
• April 21 2008. The SMW Project announces the release of the new Semantic MediaWiki version 1.1. semanticweb.org has already been updated to this latest version.
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