Spire aims to apply semantic web technologies in science research

Spire is a collaborative research project that will develop "a framework to facilitate science research and education on the semantic web, and will implement and evaluate prototype tools and applications for use in the biocomplexity and biodiversity domains".

The testbed of the project will be at The National Biological Information Infrastructure (NBII)

Splickr is a Spire implementation using Flickr.

In few years visionaries will create (easy to use) semantic web applications in different scientific domains like chemistry, biology and vertical markets like oil & gas, automotive, pharma etc.....