BibSonomy publications for /user/brightbyte/identity-crisisSun Aug 17 22:32:51 CEST 2008W3C Interest Group Note 31 March 200820080331Cool URIs for the Semantic WebInterest Group Note2008w3c uri semanticweb http identity-crisis rdf The Resource Description Framework RDF allows users to describe both Web documents and concepts from the real world—people, organisations, topics, things—in a computer-processable way. Publishing such descriptions on the Web creates the Semantic Web. URIs (Uniform Resource Identifiers) are very important, providing both the core of the framework itself and the link between RDF and the Web. This document presents guidelines for their effective use. It discusses two strategies, called 303 URIs and hash URIs. It gives pointers to several Web sites that use these solutions, and briefly discusses why several other proposals have problems. Mon Apr 14 16:51:36 CEST 2008Proceedings of Identity, Reference, and the Web Workshop (IMW06){URIs and the Myth of Resource Identity}2006uri identity-crisis rdf Mon Apr 14 16:51:36 CEST 2008Proceedings of Identity, Reference, and the Web Workshop (IMW06){Creating a common ground for URI meaning using socially constructed web sites}2006social-software folxonomy uri identity-crisis rdf Mon Apr 14 16:50:07 CEST 2008Proceedings of the Workshop on Identity, Meaning and the Web (IMW06){Identity, Reference, and Meaning on the Web}2006identity-crisis semantics rdf uri logic Mon Apr 14 16:50:07 CEST 2008XML Conference2006--04{Curing the Web's Identity Crisis: Subject Indicators for RDF}2003rdf identity-crisis uri semantics Mon Apr 14 16:50:07 CEST 2008{Working around the identity crisis}2005uri skos identity-crisis rdf semantics Mon Apr 14 16:37:12 CEST 2008Leveraging the Semantics of Topic Maps140--151The Impact of Semantic Handshakes2007semantic-web WW-MUST semantic-integration CITED semantic-handshake identity-crisis identity One of the key challenges for the breaking through of the semantic web or web 2.0 is global semantic integration: if two proxies in different subject-centric models represent the same subject in the “real world” they should become mergeable. The common top-down approach to semantic integration is the enforcement of centralised ontologies, vocabularies or PSI repositories. This top-down approach bases on an overly optimistic premise: the success of one universal vocabulary enforced by a central authority. This paper proposes a bottom-up approach. A semantic handshake is the decision that two terms from different vocabularies can be used to identify the same subject. If these local decisions are broadcasted, global integration can be achieved without any ontological imperialism. Within this paper this hypothesis is investigated by simulations. We show that if the majority of proxies describes its identity only by two different public known terms, global integration is almost achievable at the large scale.