doap:store aims to be an online directory of computing projects, collaboratively builded thanks to Semantic Web technologies.
People do not have to register to the service, as it constantly retrieves decentralized projects description to build its database thanks to Ping The Semantic Web service, so that project managers keep control over their data while doap:store provides a common search engine and interface to browse all these projects.
doap:store currently indexes 4645 DOAP files, that contain a total of 9725 projects.
If you're a developer, you can describe any of your projects in RDF using the DOAP vocabulary, an ontology provided to describe meta-data about computing projects.
Thanks to it, project descriptions are written using a common vocabulary that can be understood by various software agents and programming libraries.
Then, send a ping to PTSW so that doap:store can fetch it.
If you're interested in helping to build the doap:store database, install the Semantic Radar plugin for Firefox.
Then, each time you browse a file that has an alternate RDF description containing a DOAP project, it will be added to PTSW documents, and fetched by doap:store which will update its index.
doap:store is written by Alexandre Passant.
This service is running thanks to :