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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!

CNL2010 (Marettimo, 13 September 2010), VLDB 2010 (Singapore, 13 September 2010), SMWCon Fall 2010 (Amsterdam, 18 September 2010), DC-2010 (Pittsburgh, 20 October 2010), ISWC2010 (Shanghai, 7 November 2010, subevents: Cold2010, Http://www.ontologydynamics.org/od/index.php/seres2010/, SDoW2010, URSW 2010)  view all events …

The following Semantic Web tools have been recently released: AceWiki (Version 0.4.1, 30 August 2010), SMW+ (Version 1.5.1, 9 August 2010), TwoUse Toolkit (Version 1.0.0.201008041713, 4 August 2010), Bigdata (Version 0.83.2, 29 July 2010), EasyRdf (Version 0.4, 25 July 2010) view all tools …

• Apr 1 2010. The AIFB releases 14 billion triples to the Linked Open Data cloud by publishing the prime resource on non-lexical data, Linked Open Numbers.
• Oct 27 2009. OWL 2, the new version of the Web Ontology Language, becomes a W3C Recommendation. The OWL 2 Overview and OWL 2 Primer provide an overview and introduction to the 13 individual documents of the new standard.
• Jul 3 2009. The RIF Working Group publishes six new last call working drafts for the Rule Interchange Format (RIF).
• Jun 11 2009. UK Government moves to put semantic data on the web.
• Apr 21 2009. The W3C OWL Working Group has published new "Last Call" Working Drafts for OWL 2, a compatible extension of OWL 1. The OWL 2 Overview document provides an overview of the 13 individual documents.
• Feb 05 2009. The CEL reasoner for the OWL 2 profile EL is now available as open source.
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