Aman’s Blog

The Ultimate RSS Toolbox - 120+ RSS Resources

This is a useful listing of wide variety of RSS tools.

Linked Data - Design Issues
The Semantic Web isn’t just about putting data on the web. Tim Berners-Lee writes about this.

Yuntis: Collaborative Web Resource Categorization and Ranking Project

This project is for this thesis on collaborative categorization.

FaceTag
Integrating bottom-up and top-down classification in a social tagging system

InfoSpaces » Blog Archive » Improving Social Bookmarking Granularity

I like the idea of hierarchical tagging. Perhaps this can form a structured folksonomy.

Making a Semantic Web

This also talks about Collaborative categorization.

Towards an Integrated Approach to Collaborative Web Usage
Abstract

While certain aspects of collaboration already take place in current usage of the World Wide Web, no dedicated and integrated system exists to support this kind of collaboration. Instead, existing means of communication are used, which is cumbersome in many cases. The present work is an attempt to develop an integrated approach to collaborative Web usage. The theoretical backgrounds for such an approach are laid out by the terminology and a survey of existing work. Relevant concepts are introduced and an architecture is selected from a variety of options. The feature set for a prototype is defined and that prototype - called teamXweb is implemented. An experiment conducted with that prototype is described as well as a follow-up user survey. Finally, future directions for the approach are discussed.

Crowbar - SIMILE
Crowbar is a web scraping environment based on the use of a server-side headless mozilla-based browser.
It is used as a research prototype to investigate how to enable the running of Piggy Bank javascript scrapers from the command line and thus automating web sites scraping.

REWERSE - Reasoning on the Web

Quite a big project. Lixto has also been used for wrapper generation.

Personal Reader » Home
The Personal Publication Reader PPR provides a personalized access to publications and allows navigating through publications within an embedded context. The PPR gathers information about publications from distributed, heterogenous sources, extracts machine-readable semantics and enriches them with knowledge about authors, etc. so that rule-based reasoning can be used to provied context-adapted access.
The PPR is based on the Personal Reader Framework and was awarded at the ISWC 2005 within the context of the Semantic Web