This is a prototype browse interface for Semantic Web Applications and Demos, created as part of the W3C Semantic Web Best Practices Working Group, taskforce on applications and demos.

It uses the code created for the Semantic Web Environmental Directory (SWED), a prototype of a new kind of directory of environmental organisations and projects. The goal is to develop a sustainable (realistically maintainable) and easy to use directory about environmental organisations and projects throughout the UK.

How is SWED different? - Rather than centralising the storage, management and ownership of the information. In SWED the organisations and projects themselves hold and maintain their own information. The information is published on their web sites. SWED simply 'harvests' that information and uses it to create the directory.

The initial development of this portal was funded by EU as part of the project Semantic Web Advanced Development - Europe.