Semantic Bank

ISWC2005 participants may be interested in viewing and publishing to the conference bank.

What is this?

Semantic Bank is the server companion of Piggy Bank that lets you persist, share and publish data collected by individuals, groups or communities. Here is a screen shot of one in action:

What can I do with this?

A Semantic Bank allows you to:

• persist your information remotely on a server. This is useful, for example, if you want to share data between two of your computers or to avoid losing it due to mistakes or failure.
• share information with other people. The ability to tag resources creates a powerful serendipitous categorization (as proven by things like del.icio.us or Flickr).
• lets you publish your information, both in the "pure" RDF form (for those who know how to make use of it) or to regular web pages, with the usual Longwell facetted browsing view of it

How can I help?

Semantic Bank is an open source software and built around the spirit of open participation and collaboration.

There are several ways you can help:

• Install a Semantic Bank and lets us know about it, so that we can update the list of available Semantic Banks.


• Subscribe to our mailing lists to show your interest and give us feedback
• Report problems and ask for new features through our issue tracking system.


• Send us patches or fixes to the code

Licensing & Legal Issues

Semantic Bank is open source software and is licensed under the BSD license.

Note, however, that this software ships with libraries that are not released under the same license; that we interpret their licensing terms to be compatible with ours and that we are redistributing them unmodified. For more information on the licensing terms of the libraries Semantic Bank depends on, please refer to the source code.

Credits

This software is maintained by the SIMILE project and in particular:

• David François Huynh <dfhuynh at csail.mit.edu>
• Stefano Mazzocchi <stefanom at mit.edu>
• Ryan Lee <ryanlee at w3.org>

This product includes software developed by the Apache Software Foundation.