Welcome to http://www.mindswap.org.
Welcome to http://www.mindswap.org. This site builds on a previous web site that used a toolkit based on a web ontology language called SHOE, developed at the University of Maryland. Former Maryland PhD student Jeff Heflin did his thesis on SHOE, and developed many tools and techniques for using semantic markup (In fact, Jeff continues his work on SHOE and related languages, which is described on his research page.) Work on SHOE, and some of the first web pages based thereon began in 1996, and various tools and web pages using SHOE have been found on University of Maryland web sites since then. This site is the most ambitious such to date, and is the first to use many of the new Semantic Web tools developed in the MINDSWAP project.
One of our goals on this site is NOT to have a single tool, single ontology, or single anything else approach. Instead, this site harnesses many Web technologies (HTML, XHTML, XML, PHP, CSS, etc.) and couples them with Semantic Web languages (RDF, RDFS, DAML+OIL, OWL) and tools built both here (see the download page) and elsewhere. Many of the pages contain links which will let you either let you see the Semantic Web markup directly (the machine-readable markup) or take you to pages describing how the pages are created and the tools used to power them. Please enjoy exploring this site and learning about many of the ways Semantic Web technology can be used to provide new capabilities on the Web.
With the advent of the DARPA Agent Markup Langauge (DAML) program and the Semantic Web Activity at the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) (and its predecessors), the "Semantic Web" (a term coined by Tim Berners-Lee) has been gaining widespread attention. In November, 2001, the W3C created the Web Ontology Working Group, which has developed the Web Ontology Language OWL, which is used in powering this web site -- making it the first "Owl-compliant" web site to date.
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