Welcome to Semantic Turkey!!!

Semantic Turkey is a platform for Semantic Bookmarking and Ontology Development realized by the ART Research Group at the University of Rome, Tor Vergata

By adopting W3C standards for knowledge representation, such as RDF, RDFS and OWL, Semantic Turkey turns the popular Web Browser Firefox into a rich and extensible framework for knowledge acquisition, management and exchange. Users can adopt Semantic Turkey to keep track of relevant information from visited web sites and organize collected content according to imported/personally edited ontologies. Domain experts and ontology developers can now build ontologies starting from the very raw source of information which they find on the web, without any need of interconnecting different heterogeneous tools and applications

Semantic Turkey is built on top of several different technologies such as Java and Javascript, XUL , XBL , and features a three layered (data, business and interaction models) architecture, exploiting the AJAX paradigm for UI/Business logic communication. By exploiting acclaimed modularization frameworks such as OSGi compliant Apache Felix and the Mozilla extension environment, Semantic Turkey can be easily extended with new plug'n'play applications, embracing the best of both worlds of Knowledge Engineering and Web Browsing. Depending on their needs, extension developers can thus rely on different RDF management libraries, such as Sesame or Jena , as well as reuse and integrate functionalities from the full range of extensions in the Firefox Add-ons repository