Who uses semantic technologies today?

Without even knowing, most people use semantic technologies every day. Many of the largest websites in the world have embraced semantic technologies.

By Roy Lachica, April 9, 2011. Last updated  March 15, 2012

The list below is an incomplete list of companies and organizations that have implemented Semantic Web solutions or provide data that can be consumed as RDF(a).

  • NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) [2]
  • BBC, United Kingdom [2]
  • Facebook [5]
  • The World Bank [29]
  • The British Library [34]
  • Statoil, Norway [2]
  • National Institutes of Health (NIH), GenBank, USA [34]
  • European Comission [18]
  • Google [4]
  • United Nations [14]
  • DELL [15]
  • National Library of Medicine, USA [8]
  • Microsoft [4]
  • CIA [10]
  • The Guardian, UK [37]
  • Ford motor company [21]
  • Max-Planck Institute, Germany [34]
  • BT (British telecom), United Kingdom [2]
  • AUDI AG, Germany [2]
  • Pfizer [1]
  • UK Government [30]
  • Best Buy, USA [6] 
  • General Electric [20]
  • Astrazeneca [27]
  • IBM [24]
  • Vodafone, United Kingdom [2]
  • Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), USA [11]
  • Lockheed Martin [32]
  • Yahoo [2]
  • Chevron, USA [2]
  • Library of Congress, USA [12]
  • Boeing [26]
  • National Archives of Korea, Korea [2]
  • Nokia, Finland [28]
  • HP [45]
  • Renault, France [2]
  • Harvard Pilgrim Health Care [1]
  • Johnson & Johnson Pharmaceutical [1]
  • Apple Inc. USA [22]
  • The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), United States government [17]
  • Pacific Northwest National Laboratory [1] 
  • U.S Department of Justice [17]
  • Conoco Phillips [19]
  • Metropolitan Museum of Art, USA [1]
  • U.S. Department of Agriculture [17]
  • Ministry of Justice Korea (MOJ), Korea [2]
  • U.S. Department of Defense [1]
  • Amsterdam Museum [34]
  • IEEE [34]
  • Siemens AG [23] 
  • Qualcomm, USA [39]
  • U.S. Department of State [17]
  • Norwegian National Broadcasting services (NRK) [2] 
  • Pharma SURVEYOR Inc., USA [2]
  • Volkswagen [2]
  • Health.Data.gov, USA [13]
  • National Science Foundation, USA [33]
  • Electricité de France [2]
  • Citigroup [9] 
  • CORDIS - European Funding Database [33]
  • The Integrated Ocean Drilling Program (IODP) [34]
  • Kodak [9]
  • Sun Microsystems, United States [2]
  • Agfa Healthcare, Belgium [2]
  • Oracle Corporation, United States [2]
  • SEARS, USA [34] 
  • Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Italy [2]
  • Ministry of Knowledge Economy, Korea [2]
  • Elsevier B.V [2]
  • Dow Jones, USA [3]
  • FDIC: Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, USA [17]
  • CBS Interactive / CNET [16]
  • Fujitsu [31]
  • Huffington Post [16]
  • School of Health Information Sciences, University of Texas, United States  [2]
  • Eli Lilly, USA [2]
  • ISS, Denmark [40]
  • American Chemical Society (CAS), USA [34]
  • Auto Trader UK [33]
  • Spanish General Council of the Judiciary, Spain [2]
  • Municipality of Zaragoza, Spanish government, Spain [2]
  • Italian National Research Council [34]
  • Twine.com, USA [3]
  • Renewable Energy Policy Network for the 21st Century (REN21) [34]
  • U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission [17]
  • Overstock.com [7]
  • Cray Inc. The Supercomputer company, USA [42]
  • China Academy of Chinese Medicine Sciences, China [2]
  • O'Reilly, USA [35] 
  • The London Gazette, UK [34]
  • LGS Innovations, Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent, USA [38]
  • The Examiner.com [7]
  • Kanehisa Laboratories / University of Tokyo (Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes), Japan [34]
  • Experian [43]
  • German National Library, Germany [2]
  • New York Times [34]
  • National Institute for Research in Computer Science and Control, (INRIA) France [36]
  • Hungarian National Library [34]
  • Cornell University, USA [41]
  • Cleveland Clinic, USA [44]
  • Bankinter, Spain [2]

 

Active participants in W3C SW related groups: ILOG, Agfa, SRI International, Fair Isaac Corp., Oracle, Boeing, IBM, Chevron, Siemens, Nokia, Merck, Pfizer, AstraZeneca, Sun, Citigroup [25]

A list of some of the companies looking into Semantic Web technologies in 2009 can be found at the Partial List of Attending Organizations of the SemTech 2009 conference web site.

Webnodes is currently developing Semantic Web support in the Webnodes CMS so you too can join the list above without large investments. Meanwhile we provide Schema.org structured data, OData and a relational and extensible data model layer with a clear separation between data, data model and presentation. 

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