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INTERNET DEVELOPMENT & CONSULTANCY
Daniel Zambonini, Box UK
British Computer Society
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Semantic Web – What is it?
Data about things, That anyone can create, For computer consumption
“…technologies for enabling machines to make more sense of the Web… …making the Web more useful for humans”
Edd Dumbill, xml.com
“…technologies for enabling machines to make more sense of the Web… …making the Web more useful for humans”
Edd Dumbill, xml.com
“…moving from a Web of Documents to a Web of Data”
Eric Miller, W3C
“…moving from a Web of Documents to a Web of Data”
Eric Miller, W3C
“The bane of my existence is doing things that I know the computer could do for me”
Dan Connolly, W3C
“The bane of my existence is doing things that I know the computer could do for me”
Dan Connolly, W3C
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Semantic Web – Technologies – The XML Factor
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Semantic Web – Technologies – Now for the Science Bit
Unicode > XML > RDF > OWL > Logic > ...
The RDF Model, or “Statement”, or “Assertion”, or “Triple”, or...
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Semantic Web – The Disagreement
Argument
• People don't want to create metadata
• Metadata is often low quality and open to abuse
• It just won't work!
Counter-Argument (condensed)
• They don't have to!
• Yes, but no!
• Look, it does!
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Semantic Web - Today
100+ Major Semantic Web applications, covering:
Catalogue/Thesaurus Management
Data Integration
Knowledge Management
Annotation & Enrichment
Discovery & Selection
Media & Content Metadata
Personal Information Management
Semantic Indexing
Knowledge Creation
Syndication
MozillaEARL Annotea
Edutella
XMP
MusicBrainz
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Semantic Web - Today
RDF
Site A
RDF
Site C
RDF
Site BRDF
Site D
RDF
Site E
REST, not SOAP
Portal
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Semantic Web - Tomorrow
Logic, Inference
Web of Trust
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Conclusion
Technology and Data exists
Simple fundamental technology
Some potential problems, main problem = misunderstood
Big possibilities, big opportunities
“I do expect there to be a serious first mover advantage when it comes to being Semantic Web compatible in software products”
Sir Tim Berners Lee, W3C