The Semantic Web: What, Why, and How? Ann Wrightson Principal Consultant, alphaXML Ltd...

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The Semantic Web: What, Why, and How? Ann Wrightson Principal Consultant, alphaXML Ltd [email protected]

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The Semantic Web:What, Why, and How?

Ann WrightsonPrincipal Consultant, alphaXML Ltd

[email protected]

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The Semantic Web

What is it? Why is it relevant? How to find out about it?

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What is the Semantic Web?

A question often asked! 3 aspects…

Visions Requirements Technologies

… and numerous definitions and descriptions.

The Semantic Web will bring structure to the meaningful content of Web

pages, creating an environment where software agents roaming from page to

page can readily carry out sophisticated tasks for users.

Tim Berners-Lee, James Hendler and Ora Lassila

Scientific American, May 2001

…technologies for enabling machines to make more sense of the Web, with the result of making the Web more useful for humans.

Edd Dumbill on XML.com (O'Reilly, November 2000)

The Semantic Web is a vision: the idea of having data on the web

defined and linked in a way, that it can be used by machines - not just for display purposes, but for using

it in various applications.

Welcome page of semanticweb.org

The Semantic Web is a Web that includes documents, or portions of

documents, describing explicit relationships between things and containing semantic information

intended for automated processing by our machines.

SWAG’s “clear view”

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Semantic Web technologies

Structure and presentation XML, XSL, XML Schema

Indexing, ontology, concept analysis RDF/RDFS, Topic Maps DAML/OIL

Functional metadata Dublin Core Metadata for Resource

Discovery

… and this is just a small sample.

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Why is the Semantic Web relevant?

e-Government shares the core vision – the Web being more useful for humans

Semantic Web technologies extend and generalize existing capabilities in Government

The infrastructure technology can follow and support this vision … some past visions were less lucky

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How to find out about the Semantic Web

Diffuse project http://www.diffuse.org

IST Semantic Web Technologies Workshop, Luxembourg, 22nd & 23rd November 2000 http://www.diffuse.org/S-Web.html

W3C Semantic Web Activity http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/

Semanticweb.org http://www.semanticweb.org