Examples of using semantic web technologies in real world applications [closed]

Answer 1

We are serving up rdf at biodiversity.org.au, and are planning to put a SPARQL engine over it. The bioinformatics community is very interested in RDF in general.

See: http://biodiversity.org.au/name/Dodonaea%20viscosa.rdf

The html search interface is at http://biodiversity.org.au/name/

Also see http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/TaxonConcept

Note that what you see in the web browser is OWL run through a stylesheet. Do a "view source" to see the OWL.

Answer 2

At Yahoo! Search we use RDF to crawl for semantic data and power our Rich Results. Check out searches for "thai chili" and "paul tarjan facebook".

If you want to see all the semantic data we pull out of pages, install the "Structured Data Display" SearchMonkey plugin and under every result you will see an inforbar full of the RDF serialized as RDFa. (I can't post links since I'm new here).

Answer 3

O'Reilly's Practical RDF has a chatper titled Commercial Uses of RDF/XML. The table at the left lists the subsections: Chandler, RDF Gateway, Seamark, and Adobe's XMP stuff.

Answer 4

Three of Garlik's (www.garlik.com) services, DataPatrol, QDOS and a FOAF viewer all use RDF and SPARQL extensively.

DataPatrol in particular and has tens of thousands of users in the UK. The dataset size is around ten billion RDF triples.

Answer 5

Microsoft Interactive Media Manager is a metadata management system developed on the Microsoft SharePoint platform that heavily leverages RDF, OWL, and SPARQL. It has some big customers in the broadcast space and is an excellent example of enterprise use of these technologies.

Answer 6

The flexibility of the semantic web data model enables lots of applications that are difficult to deliver using traditional, relational technologies. The responses so far on this list tend to focus on Web-centered applications, rather than those in the enterprise, probably for the reason that one can actually link to them, but semantic web technology is quietly taking off behind the firewall as well. My employer, Cambridge Semantics, produces a semantic web platform for enterprise application development, with customers including:

• Johnson & Johnson
• Merck
• GroupM
• Chevron
• Biogen Idec