FLINK, which describes itself as the “Who’s who of the semantic web”, is a demonstration application that won first place in the ISWC 2004 Semantic Web Challenge contest. Flink was developed by Peter Mika of the Free University of Amsterdam as part of his PhD research.

Flink provides information on semantic web researchers, their papers, and their social relationships, mined from HTML pages, Google Scholar, FOAF documents, mailing lists and other web sources. It computes various rankings of the researchers and lets you view a person’s social network graphically as well as viewing people and their social networks overlaid on a world map. Flink manages its data with Sesame and can export the dataset as an OWL document. Flink a good example of a semantic web application largely built with readily available tools that demonstrates a very useful level of information integration.

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