Semantic Web Activity in India

For past few days, I was trying to look for people, institutes or companies in India involved in Semantic Web. In Europe it seems to be quite huge effort from some time. I couldn't find much information on these topics earlier.

But today, I found something interesting. NCST (National Centre for Software Technology) Bangalore (now known as C-DAC)has a particular research group called "Data & Knowledge Engineering" which works on Semantic Web. Its quite good to see indian institutes moving in that direction. They have a number of projects running in the knowledge domain.

- KMap - A Web-based Knowledge Management Application

- Viksha - Knowledge Enabling Devices
Viksha aims at building a channel through which extraction and addition of knowledge through different data sources existing inside an organisation and combining it with Internet. The whole system is broadly categorized into three parts: -Existing databases, Ontology and then an Intelligent Browser.

- VXML - Visual Document XMLiser
Aim is to convert unstructured text data to structured XML format using a Visual Editor.

- Semantic Web Annotation Tool
The Annotation System makes it possible to make/search annotations using a plugin for Internet Explorer. The annotations can be stored both at the client and at the server end.

The screenshots of the available tools look quite good. Currently not available in public domain, but perhaps might be there soon.