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Welcome to the DOAP wiki. DOAP is a project to create an XML/RDF vocabulary to describe software projects, and in particular open source projects.

In addition to developing an RDF schema and examples, the DOAP project aims to provide tool support in all the popular programming languages.

DOAP's creator and maintainer is Edd Wilder-James.

DOAP overview

• Project goals
• Project design

Resources

• RDF Schema
• Examples
• Mailing list and IRC
• Source repository
• W3C Semantic Web DOAP BulletinBoard

Software for creating and consuming DOAP

• Validators
• Generators
• Viewers
• Web sites using DOAP
• DOAP Aggregators

Articles about DOAP

• Project Catalogues and Project Descriptors using DOAP resource article on OSS Watch