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Cool Uris For The Semantic Web
Web document (information resource)
Like everything on the traditional Web, each of the pages mentioned above are Web documents. Every Web document has its own URI. Note that a Web document is not the same as a file: a single Web document can be available in many different formats and languages, and a single…
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.
Cool URIs: be on the Web, be unambiguous
Given such a URI, how can we find out what it identifies? We need some way to answer this question, because otherwise it will be hard to achieve interoperability between independent information systems. We could imagine a service where we can look up a description of the…
Digital Hermeneutics: Agora And The Online Understanding Of Cultural Heritage
Information flow from heritage institutions to the public
The Web has offered cultural heritage institutions and their public a medium rather than a product [8], changing their traditional task from information interpreters to that of in- formation providers [6]. As information providers, cultural heritage institutions therefore need…
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…
Giant Global Graph - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia
Giant global graph
Giant Global Graph (GGG) was notably used the first time by the inventor of the World Wide Web, Tim Berners-Lee, on his blog.[3] Tim Berners-Lee thinks about the social network itself that is inside and between social-network Web sites such as Facebook. He assumes that people…
How Books Will Become Machines
Turning the web of documents into one database
Tim Berners-Lee and the other members of the W3C have been arguing for a long time about the importance of producing standards enabling semantic tagging and organization of information (Berners-Lee, 1999). The web is currently a web of documents. It should become a web of…
Linked Data Is Merely More Data
From a web of documents to a web of data
The interlinking of these diverse datasets promises a “Web of Data” that will enable users to easily navigate be- tween these datasets in a manner analogous to how users currently navigate from one webpage to another in the “Web of Documents.” Moreover, the LoD Cloud can…
Long Live The Web : Article : Scientific American
Linked data
Today's Web is quite effective at helping people publish and discover documents, but our computer programs cannot read or manipulate the actual data within those documents. As this problem is solved, the Web will become much more useful, because data about nearly every aspect…
Neologism – Easy Vocabulary Publishing
Ontology browser
Neologism is a vocabulary publishing platform for the Web of Data, with a focus on ease of use and compatibility with Linked Data principles. Neologism is free and Open Source.With Neologism, you can create RDF classes and properties, which are needed to publish on the Web of…
Official Blog: Introducing The Knowledge Graph: Things, Not Strings
Knowledge graph
The Knowledge Graph enables you to search for things, people or places that Google knows about—landmarks, celebrities, cities, sports teams, buildings, geographical features, movies, celestial objects, works of art and more—and instantly get information that’s relevant to your…
Rdf Primer
Machine processable statements in rdf
RDF is about making machine-processable statements. To make these kinds of statements suitable for processing by machines, two things are needed: - a system of machine-processable identifiers for identifying a subject, predicate, or object in a statement without any possibility…
RDF identifies with URIrefs, browsers retrieve
Both RDF and Web browsers use URIrefs to identify things. However, RDF and browsers interpret URIrefs in slightly different ways. This is because RDF uses URIrefs only to identify things, while browsers also use URIrefs to retrieve things. Often there is no effective…
Applications needn't understand RDF to use it
RDF provides a way to make statements that applications can more easily process. An application cannot actually "understand" such statements, as noted already, any more than a database system "understands" terms like "employee" or "salary" in processing a query like SELECT NAME…
Anyone can say anything about any resource
These examples also illustrate one of the basic architectural principles of the Web, which is that anyone should be able to freely add information about an existing resource, using any vocabulary they please [BERNERS-LEE98]. The examples further illustrate that the RDF…
RDF: metadata about things on the Web
The Resource Description Framework (RDF) is a language for representing information about resources in the World Wide Web. It is particularly intended for representing metadata about Web resources, such as the title, author, and modification date of a Web page, copyright and…
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…
Reframe It Retreads Web Annotation As A Browser Add-on | Techcrunch
Reframe It: web annotation in a side pane
Reframe It is a browser plug-in for Firefox or Internet Explorer that lets you highlight passages of text on a Web page and add your own comments in a side pane. Comment can be private, public, or visible only to certain groups. Anyone with the Reframe It plug-in can then see…
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…
Two Misconceptions About The Semantic Web
One ontology to rule them all
To my knowledge, nobody has ever claimed that there should be “one ontology to rule them all.” Instead, what is regularly promoted is ontology reuse and/or integration. For example, the FOAF ontology is widely used in the semantic web to describe persons; why create your own…
Triples all the way down
RDF is meant to solve the problem of meaningfully publishing data (not just documents) on the World Wide Web. Beyond that, do what you want. More specifically, when you crawl and/or aggregate data from the World Wide Web, you don’t have to keep the RDF data as triples in your…
Where Are The Semantics In The Semantic Web?
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…
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”…
The evolving web
Various Perspectives for Characterising the Web: - Locating Resources: The way people find things on the Web is evolving from simple free text and keyword search to more sophisticated semantic techniques both for search and navigation. - Users: Web resources are evolving from…