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About SemanticTable

A "Table" is the most common type of data format used in biological research.
The Semantic Web, on the other hand, where knowledge is represented by
statements comprising a subject, predicate and object, is also becoming
a major container for data accessible by automatic computational reasoners.

Here we present "SemanticTable.org", a web site for explaining the "SemanticTable"
format and introducing related tools and web services. The "SemanticTable" format
provides a huge amount of biological semantic-web data as simple table-style data files
that are reversely convertible to the semantic-web format. The "SemanticTable" format
is used in BioLOD.org and SciNetS, providing 749 tables and 7.8 million rows of
SemanticTable data as of August 2011.

Conversion from table data files to semantic-web data files and vice versa are supported
by our web site (http://semantictable.org) and the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) web
site RDFa Distiller and Parser page at (http://www.w3.org/2007/08/pyRdfa/).
We propose SemanticTable, based on the standard RDFa specification, as the most
understandable way for biologists not familiar with semantic-web specifications to utilize
semantic-web data.

The content of our web site as follows is accessed by tabs at the top.