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#Semantic-Web
About Taxonomies & Controlled Vocabularies
An ontology is a richer thesaurus
An ontology, like a thesaurus, is a kind of taxonomy with structure and specific types of relationships between terms. In an ontology the types of relationships are greater in number and more specific in their function. Relationships could include, for example, located in to…
About The Stko Lab | Stko Lab
Astronomers of the information universe
Do you like astronomy, the universe? Great, 'cause we are the astronomers of the information universe. The STKO Lab is an information observatory that investigates the role of Space and Time for Knowledge Organization. Thus, if you like, you can also spell out the STKO acronym…
Cool Uris For The Semantic Web
RDF describes documents and real-world things
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.
The Semantic Web's two core challenges
The Semantic Web is envisioned as a decentralised world-wide information space for sharing machine-readable data with a minimum of integration costs. Its two core challenges are the distributed modelling of the world with a shared data model, and the infrastructure where data…
Enabling Accessible Knowledge
Initiatives in semantic publishing
There are notable initiatives by public sector bodies which take on holistic approaches to build a sustainable ecosystem around data that supports social, economic and political impact [6]. The recommendations lean towards making reusable and machine-friendly formats available…
Events And Presentations | University Of Technology, Sydney
Learning analytics
In December 2013, Professor Shirley Alexander was delighted to host a visit by Professor Simon Buckingham Shum. Simon is Professor of Learning Informatics at the UK Open University’s Knowledge Media Institute (KMi), an 80-strong lab at the convergence of learning sciences, web…
Refocusing Our Efforts And Investments | Talis Systems | World Leading Expertise In Data On The Web
Semantic web failures
Over the last few years Linked Data has been going from strength to strength. Many more organisations are now seeing the benefits of applying semantic web technologies to help publish, share, and create value from data. As part of the Talis Group, Talis Systems has invested an…
Semantic Web Activity Statement
The Semantic Web vision
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 automation, integration and reuse of data across various applications.
The Semantic Web
The Semantic Web (definition)
The Semantic Web is an extension of the current Web in which information is given well-defined meaning, better enabling computers and people to work in cooperation.
The Semantic Web: An Introduction
The Semantic Web as a globally linked database
The Semantic Web is a mesh of information linked up in such a way as to be easily processable by machines, on a global scale. You can think of it as being an efficient way of representing data on the World Wide Web, or as a globally linked database. The Semantic Web was thought…
Why RDF rather than XML
The answer to "why use RDF rather than XML?" is quite simple, and is twofold. Firstly, the benefit that one gets from drafting a language in RDF is that the information maps directly and unambiguously to a model, a model which is decentralized, and for which there are many…
Today's Web 3.0 Nonsense Blogstorm - O'reilly Radar
Web2 vs the semantic web
Alas, I find the Web 3.0 arguments as clear evidence that the proponents don’t understand Web 2.0 at all. Web 2.0 is not about front end technologies. It’s precisely about back-end, and it’s about meaning and intelligence in the back end. The real difference between Web 2.0 and…
Triple Bypass – What Does The Death Of The Semantic Web Mean For Publishers? - Semantico
Schema.org and the death of the Semantic Web
The era passed with the recent announcement by Google, Yahoo and Microsoft of the launch of schema.org. Schema.org provides technical documentation on the ways in which the major search engines will recognize structured data in your web pages. It shows how to get rich snippets…
Where Are The Semantics In The Semantic Web?
Shopping agents as a degenerate Semantic Web
...it is useful to collectively regard shopping agents as a degenerate case of the Semantic Web. Shopping agents work in the complete absence of any explicit account of the semantics of Web content because the meaning of the Web content that the agents are expected to encounter…
Where are the semantics?
The most widely accepted defining feature of the Semantic Web is machine-usable content. By this definition, the Semantic Web is already manifest in shopping agents that automatically access and use Web content to find the lowest air fares, or book prices. But where are the…
What is good is what works
What is good is what works. For many applications there is no need for machines to automatically determine the meaning of terms; the human can simply hardwire this meaning into the software. Web shopping agents “know” how to find the fare for a given trip, or the price of a…
Four routes to Semantic Web progress
We anticipate that progress in development of the Semantic Web will take place by: 1. Moving along the semantic continuum from less clearly specified (implicit) semantics to more clearly specified (formal) semantics. 2. Reducing the amount of hardwiring that is necessary…
Hardwiring knowledge into software
Machine usable content presumes that the machine knows what to do with information on the Web. One way for this to happen is for the machine to read and process a machine-sensible specification of the semantics of the information. This is a robust and very challenging approach…
Machines must know what content means
The most frequently quoted defining feature of the Semantic Web is machine usable Web content. Fundamentally, this requires that machines must “know” how to recognize the content they are looking for, and they must “know” what to do when they encounter it. This “knowledge”…
Agreement in the semantic web
The more agreement there is, the better. For example, there are emerging standards for XML DTDs in specific domains. [...] If there is not agreement (e.g., only some Web sites include taxes in the price information), then effort is required to make sure that you have the right…