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Swoogle for the Semantic Web
Here is a tool for searching structured data on the Web, Swoogle.
Swoogle is a crawler-based indexing and retrieval system for Semantic Web Documents (SWDs), that is, web documents written in RDF or OWL. Swoogle discovers, digests, analyzes and indexes online SWDs and provide query and report service through a web interface.
They have a "Submit URL" feature so you can add your RDF and OWL pages to their directory.
RDF
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Sru Approved As Oasis Standard
News from OASIS via OCLC, that SRU has been approved as OASIS Standard. SRU (Search and Retrieve via URL) 2.0 has been approved as a standard by the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS). SRU is the web-based successor...
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Yahoo Search Monkey
Another step towards the Semantic Web, Yahoo SearchMonkey.SearchMonkey is fundamentally about transforming the way search results are compiled and displayed by leveraging the same structured data that powers the millions of pages indexed by Yahoo! Search....
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W3c Completes Bridge Between Html/microformats And Semantic Web
Big news from the W3C, GRDDL.Today, the World Wide Web Consortium completed an important link between Semantic Web and microformats communities. With "Gleaning Resource Descriptions from Dialects of Languages", or GRDDL (pronounced "griddle"), software...
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Educational Metadata
Semantic Web Metadata for e-Learning - Some Architectural Guidelines by Mikael Nilsson, Matthias Palmer and Ambjorn Naeve.Meta-data is the fundamental building block of the Semantic Web. However, the meta-data concept is too loosely defined to provide...
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Xml
The current issue of JDIM (Journal of Digital Information Management) has the paper "Indexing for XML-based Articles" by Canan F. Pembe and Taflan 0. Gundem.Traditional information retrieval systems have problems in the relevancy of the search results....
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