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+# The ASF asks: Have you met Apache Marmotta?
+
+The all-volunteer Apache Software Foundation (ASF) develops, stewards, and 
+incubates over 200 Open Source projects and initiatives, many of which power 
+mission-critical applications in financial services, aerospace, publishing, 
+government, healthcare, research, infrastructure, and more.
+
+Did you know that 50% of the Top 10 downloaded Open Source products are Apache 
+projects? Did you know that one of the [most active projects](https://www.ohloh.net/orgs/apache/projects) 
+currently is Apache Marmotta?
+
+We are pleased to showcase [Apache Marmotta](http://marmotta.apache.org), an 
+Open Platform for Linked Data.
+
+__Quick peek:__ [Linked Data](http://www.w3.org/standards/semanticweb/data) is a 
+paradigm promoted by W3C for large scale data integration across the Web based 
+the RDF technology stack. 
+
+__Background:__ In short, because [the story is much longer](http://redlink.co/apache-marmotta/), 
+the project was initiated by a group of researchers from [Salzburg Research](http://www.salzburgresearch.at),
+contributed to Apache Incubator in December of 2012. Apache Marmotta has recently 
+graduated as an Apache Top-Level Project.
+
+__Why Marmotta:__ Apache Marmotta was born toprovide to the industry an open source
+implementation of Linked Data technologies in general, and 
+[Linked Data Platform](http://www.w3.org/TR/ldp/) in particular. Usually organizations 
+who want to use this technology need to assemble together different pieces of software,
+with the obvious problems derived, both technical and legal. Apache Marmotta comes
+to satisfy that need of the industry supporting almost any use-case with a permissive 
+open source license.
+
+@@TODO@@: something more
+
+__What's under the hood:__ Marmotta @@TODO@@
+
+__Latest release:__ Apache Marmotta v3.1.0-incubating on 13 October 2012 under 
+the Apache License v.2.0. More details can be found in the 
+[release notes](https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?projectId=12314321&version=12324026&styleName=Text).
+
+__Downloads, documentation, examples, and more information: visit:__ [marmotta.apache.org](http://marmotta.apache.org)
+