Apache Stanbol 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.

[1] Additionally, Apache Stanbol lets you create new types of content management systems with semantics at their core.

[2] The consortium comprised[2] In January 2009, the Interactive Knowledge Stack (IKS) started partly funded by the European Commission to provide an "open source technology platform for semantically enhanced content management systems".

[5] Apache Stanbol was founded in November 2010 by members the EU research project Interactive Knowledge Stack (IKS).

The Apache Stanbol Enhancer provides both a RESTful and a Java API that allows a caller to extract features from passed content.

Services that store (or cache) semantic information, i.e. enhanced content, entities, facts, and make it searchable.