The SIMILE tools assist in the storage, querying, transformation and mapping of very large collections of RDF data.
These open source tools are designed to be scalable and provide for cross-community sharing of metadata at low cost.
This pooling of keywords underlies services such as Flickr and del.icio.us, where communities can collaborate to build a taxonomy for shared data.
Solvent is a Firefox extension that enables the user to write screen scrapers for Piggy Bank.
It can be populated by pointing it at an XML file Exhibit is technology that enables developers to provide browsing of faceted classifications in a web browser.
RDFizers are a group of tools that allows the transformation of existing data into an RDF representation.
The SIMILE project has built RDFizers that convert from the following formats: Crowbar is a web scraping environment based on the use of a server-side headless Mozilla-based browser.
It is used as a research prototype to investigate how to enable the running of Piggy Bank JavaScript scrapers from the command line and thus automate web site scraping.