>
>  See http://www.ksl.stanford.edu/knowledge-sharing/kif/ I believe the
>> SUMO knowledge base comes in KIF format among others ... KIF is nice and
>> easy to parse...
>>
>
> Unexpected.  The  KIF user manual was last updated in 1992; the last post
> to the KIF mailing list was 1994.   Yes, its "easy to parse", that's what
> caught my eye.
>

Trivia: among the very first posts to the kif mailing list is Peter Norvig.
 Among the last is John Sowa and John McCarthy.

The "blow away" thread is about lack of funding for AI. :-)