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Ontology Tools - TechWiki. This listing received its last major update on Aug 22, 2010 (though with minor additions since).

Ontology Tools - TechWiki

All tools added at that time are marked with <New> (new only means newly discovered; some had yet to be discovered in prior listings). There are now a total of 185 tools in the listing, 31 of which are new, and 45 from the first release. <Newest> reflects updates — most from the developers themselves — since the original publication of this post. Comprehensive Ontology Tools. Curation And The Human Web... Posted by Tom Foremski - November 16, 2010 There is no doubt in my mind that the topic of curation and the Internet, is an important one and that it will be a dominant topic in 2011.

Curation And The Human Web...

Curation is important because we are reaching the limits of what can be achieved through algorithms and machines in organizing and navigating the Internet. Aggregation looks like curation but it's not. (Please see: Aggregation Is Not Curation - There Is A Big Difference - SVW) I define curation as a person, or a group of people, engaged in choosing and presenting a collection of things related to a specific topic and context. Aggregation Is Not Curation - There Is A Big Difference. Posted by Tom Foremski - November 2, 2010 Curation is becoming an increasingly important term and for good reason: the online world is increasingly messy, muddled and full of blind alleys.

Aggregation Is Not Curation - There Is A Big Difference

Search used to be the best way to navigate online but today it is only one part of an Internet user's dashboard. Finding things is fine if you know what to look for, but search is increasingly less effective in judging the quality of links, or putting those links into a context. Blekko, the recently launched search engine tries to provide a context for search terms but it's still not curation but aggregation.