Knowledge Resources

This is just a quick note on knowledge resources which I want to keep an eye on. Someday this should become a commented, interactive list of resources, but now it is just an unordered list.

• WordNet
• UMBEL
  Upper Mapping and Binding Exchange Layer. A Webservice to access UMBEL in various ways is provided by Zitgist
  
• OpenCyc
  The Open Source Version of the CYC Knowledge Base. Available as OWL and via a SW-Endpoint.
  
• YAGO
  huge semantic knowledge base with a a manually confirmed accuracy of 95%.
  
• DBpedia
  Knowledge derived from Wikipedia.
  

• CIDOC CRM
• Erlangen CRM
• Bibliographic Ontology
• Music Ontology

• Library of Congress Authorities
  Authority headings for Subject, Name, Title and Name/Title combinations, authority records downloadable in MARC format.
  
• Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names TGN
• Getty Art & Architecture Thesaurus AAT
• Getty Union List of Artist Names ULAN
• Getty Cultural Objects Name Authority CONA
• GeoNames
  The GeoNames geographical database covers all countries and contains over eight million placenames.
  
• ORBIS LATINUS online
• CERL Thesaurus
  Contains names of persons, corporate bodies, places and printers/publishers recorded in books or other material printed during the hand-press era (1450 - ca. 1830).
  
• U.S. Board on Geographic Names
• HEREIN thesaurus
  The multilingual thesaurus attached to the HEREIN project intends to offer a terminological standard for national policies dealing with architectural and archaeological heritage.
  
• Inventaire général du patrimoine culturel"

• CIA World Factbook
• Wikipedia
• RDK-Web
  Reallexikon zur Deutschen Kunstgeschichte
  

• FreeThesaurus.Info
  aka Vocabulary Server, a Resource of Free (Open Source) Vocabularies and Thesauruses. A Service provided by and using TemaTres: the open source vocabulary server (PHP/MySQL).