Welcome to Apache Stanbol (incubating)
Apache Stanbol (currently in incubation) is an open source modular software stack and reusable set of components for semantic content management.
Apache Stanbol components are meant to be accessed over RESTful interfaces to provide semantic services for content management. Thus, one application is to extend traditional content management systems with (internal or external) semantic services. Additionally, Apache Stanbol let's you create new types of content management systems with semantics at their core. The current code is written in Java and based on the OSGi component framework.
Apache Stanbol's main features are:
- Content Enhancement
Services that add semantic information to “non-semantic” pieces of content. - Reasoning
Services that are able to retrieve additional semantic information about the content based on the semantic information retrieved via content enhancement. - Knowledge Models
Services that are used to define and manipulate the data models (e.g. ontologies) that are used to store the semantic information. - Persistence
Services that store (or cache) semantic information, i.e. enhanced content, entities, facts, and make it searchable.
Apache Stanbol features provide the basics to create content management systems with semantically advanced user interfaces. Those user interfaces benefit from the semantic information that can be handled by Apache Stanbol. See the documentation and usage scenarios pages for more details.
Online demos of the basic/stable features of Apache Stanbol are available here and here. An experimental/full version of Apache Stanbol is available here.
The Apache Stanbol project was initiated by the European R&D project IKS - Interactive Knowledge Stack for small to medium CMS providers. Some people who are working on the project are part-funded by the IKS project, as well as by several European SME CMS providers, who are adopting Apache Stanbol.
How to get involved
Mailing lists
The dev mailing list is where the action is, so make sure you subscribe to the Apache Stanbol developers mailing list by sending an email to stanbol-dev-subscribe AT incubator.apache.org .
We don't have a users mailing list at this time, we'll create it if traffic becomes too high on the dev list. User questions are welcome on the dev list for now.
Mailing list archives are available at mail-archives.apache.org, markmail.org and the other usual places.
Additional mailing lists:
stanbol-commits AT incubator.apache.org: commit messagesstanbol-private AT incubator.apache.org: private list for Apache Stanbol PPMC members
Issue tracker
The Stanbol issue tracker is at https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/STANBOL. You can report issues and submit patches there, and you're welcome to discuss those on the mailing list first, as needed.
Source code
The Apache Stanbol source code can be found at incubator/stanbol/trunk/.
Disclaimer
Apache Stanbol is an effort undergoing incubation at The Apache Software Foundation (ASF), sponsored by the Apache Incubator PMC. Incubation is required of all newly accepted projects until a further review indicates that the infrastructure, communications, and decision making process have stabilized in a manner consistent with other successful ASF projects. While incubation status is not necessarily a reflection of the completeness or stability of the code, it does indicate that the project has yet to be fully endorsed by the ASF.