Started as a research project of the Ebiquity research group in the University of Maryland. Swoogle is a search engine for Semantic Web ontologies, documents, terms and data published on the Web. It is a distributed online repository of SWDs. It is a crawler based indexing and retrieval system for Semantic Web. The crawls and discovers documents written in RDF, OWL. It provides services to human users through a browser interface and to software agents via RESTful web services.
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Main objectives of Swoogle ?
More and more SWDs, both ontologies and instances physically distributed all over the web.
A retrieval system that organizes these documents in a systematic way.
Both humans and agents can easily conduct searches and queries against this repository.
Swoogle Architecture
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What Swoogle Search?
Find if suitable ontologies matching the user’s need already exist within underlying domain.
User inputs specific term.
Swoogle replies with existing ontologies that also use the term entered.
Follow the link and see whether the provided ontology satisfies the need
Query SWDs with constraints on classes and properties used by them.
