Semantic Technologies

The complexity of natural language calls for disambiguation and advanced software components able to understand electronic content. This is the fundamental idea behind Berner-Lee’s vision of the Semantic Web. Semantic technologies unfold their full potential through network effects and require a critical mass of annotations along several dimensions such as location (source and target geography), content (major topics covered, e.g. by assigning terms from a controlled vocabulary), and time (timestamps for events, publications and their subsequent revisions). Knowledge repositories can then be organized, indexed, searched and navigated along these dimensions.

> IDIOM (Information Diffusion across Interactive Online Media)
> AVALON (Acquisition and VALidation of Ontologie)
> webLyzard
> Semantic Web Atelier