By Marja-Riitta Koivunen and Eric Miller. In: Proceedings of the Semantic Web Kick-off Seminar in Finland, November 2001. The authors explain the main Semantic Web principles, key technological layers, they present W3C activity and sample applications. The ODP RDF dump is used to show how easy it is to merge RDF based information.
By Vassilis Christophides, Dimitris Plexousakis, Michel Scholl and Sotirios Tourtounis. In: Proceedings of the 12th international conference on World Wide Web, 2003. Deals with optimization of the navigation through voluminous subsumption hierarchies of topics. Storage and query evaluation performance of two labeling schemes are compared for the 16 ODP hierarchies.
Dave Reynolds, Paul Shabajee, Steve Cayzer. Hewlett-Packard Laboratories and University of Bristol, UK. Proceedings of the 13th international World Wide Web conference on Alternate track papers and posters, 2004. Describes the notion of a semantic information portal, exploiting the semantic web standards to improve structure, extensibility, customization and sustainability. ODP is mentioned as example for a classical portal that offers information about all web pages.