Semantic Web in the Field

Early adopters include...

HP

Jena, Java based Semantic Web Toolkit

SUN

The Global Knowledge Engineering Group (GKE) in Sun Services division is leveraging W3C's Semantic Web technologies and standards (RDF)

Adobe

eXtensible Metadata Platform XMP, cross product metadata toolkit leverage RDF/XML to enable more effective management of digital resources

Creative Commons

founded on the notion that some people may not want to exercise all of the intellectual property rights the law affords them (works are automatically copyrighted) - define a set of (machine and human readable) public licenses (RDF/XML).

TAP

Enable the Semantic Web by providing some simple tools that make the web a giant distributed Database.