World Wide Web Conference 2005 - Semantic Web track

In this special issue you find the best five papers out of a lot of 86 papers submitted to the Semantic Web track at WWW-2005 and presented at Chiba, Japan, in May 2005. What we found stuck out about the Semantic Web track 2005 was that it did not stick out. During submissions as well as during the shaping of the final programme it remained unclear many times, whether a paper would better go to the Semantic Web track or one of the other tracks. This indicated clearly that the Semantic Web is not a discipline separate of the rest of the Web, even though it has indeed its own foundations, some of which we see below. Rather, the Semantic Web now weaves tightly into the fabric of current day Web technologies. We take this as a very healthy sign of where the Semantic Web is heading today.