Work on the Semantic Web is all to often phrased as a technological challenge: how to improve the precision of search engines, how to personalise web-sites, how to integrate weakly-structured data-sources, etc. This suggests that we will be able to realis
Work on the Semantic Web is all to often phrased as a technological challenge: how to improve the precision of search engines, how to personalise web-sites, how to integrate weakly-structured data-sources, etc. This suggests that we will be able to realis
The Semantic Web is not just a single Web. There won't be one Semantic Web, there will be thousands or even millions of them, each in their own area. They will all be part of one Semantic Web in that they will use the same open-standard languages and thei
The Semantic Web is not just a single Web. There won't be one Semantic Web, there will be thousands or even millions of them, each in their own area. They will all be part of one Semantic Web in that they will use the same open-standard languages and thei
On the Semantic Web (SemWeb), computers do the browsing (and searching, and querying, and...) for us. The SemWeb enables computers to seek out knowledge distributed throughout the Web, mesh it, and then take action based on it. Take an analogy: the curren
On the Semantic Web (SemWeb), computers do the browsing (and searching, and querying, and...) for us. The SemWeb enables computers to seek out knowledge distributed throughout the Web, mesh it, and then take action based on it. Take an analogy: the curren
Unfortunately, there is an air of academia and corporatate thinking lingering in the Semantic Web community, which has lead to the term "Pedantic Web" being coined, and a lot of mis/disinformation and unecessary hype being disseminated. Note that this ver
There has been a lot of hype about the Semantic Web, and this has not been a good thing. Spurious claims about what the Semantic Web might and might not be able to do have been choking public understanding of it, and adding to the confusion that many peop
There has been a lot of hype about the Semantic Web, and this has not been a good thing. Spurious claims about what the Semantic Web might and might not be able to do have been choking public understanding of it, and adding to the confusion that many peop
SemWeb (SW) operates on the principle of shared data. When you define what a particular type of data is, you can link it to other bits of data and say "that's the same"...for example, "zip" in my SW system is the same as "zip" in my friends. Although it g
SemWeb (SW) operates on the principle of shared data. When you define what a particular type of data is, you can link it to other bits of data and say "that's the same"...for example, "zip" in my SW system is the same as "zip" in my friends. Although it g
While it's easy for a human to figure out the meaning of a web page ("Mom! They sell pokemons!"), this usually isn't true for software programs. How much more could we benefit from the knowledge freely available online if our computers understood the info
While it's easy for a human to figure out the meaning of a web page ("Mom! They sell pokemons!"), this usually isn't true for software programs. How much more could we benefit from the knowledge freely available online if our computers understood the info
The Semantic Web = a Web with a meaning. "If HTML and the Web made all the online documents look like one huge book, RDF, schema, and inference languages will make all the data in the world look like one huge database" --Tim Berners-Lee, Weaving the We
The Semantic Web = a Web with a meaning. "If HTML and the Web made all the online documents look like one huge book, RDF, schema, and inference languages will make all the data in the world look like one huge database" --Tim Berners-Lee, Weaving the We
Discusses three conceptual components of the semantic web project (1. expressing meaning, 2. knowledge representation, and 3. ontologies), with "educated layperson's" technical details on semantic markup, software agents, and machine-readable content serv
Discusses three conceptual components of the semantic web project (1. expressing meaning, 2. knowledge representation, and 3. ontologies), with "educated layperson's" technical details on semantic markup, software agents, and machine-readable content serv
Topics include: Merging Results from Independent SPARQL Queries, Home from SWAP2006, DBin for Power Users to Create Discussion Groups, Use of URIs for Naming, Another Cool Thing About GRDDL, XQuery and RDF, Dark Side of the Semantic Web, CSS in RDF+, QOT
Topics include: Merging Results from Independent SPARQL Queries, Home from SWAP2006, DBin for Power Users to Create Discussion Groups, Use of URIs for Naming, Another Cool Thing About GRDDL, XQuery and RDF, Dark Side of the Semantic Web, CSS in RDF+, QOT