In this paper, we propose Piggy Bank, a tool integrated into the contemporary web browser that lets Web users extract individual information items from within web pages and save them in Semantic Web format (RDF [20]), replete with metadata. Piggy Bank then lets users make use of these items right inside the same web browser. These items, collected from different sites, can now be browsed, searched, sorted, and organized together, regardless of their origins and types. Piggy Bank’s use of Semantic Web technologies offers direct, immediate benefits to Web users in their everyday’s use of the existing Web while incurring.
