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 WrightsonPrincipal Consultant, alphaXML Ltd
http://www.alphaxml.com
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