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State of the Semantic Web
Ivan Herman, W3C
May 2009
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What is the overall status of the Semantic Web?
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We have the basic technologies• Stable specifications for the basics since 2004:
RDF, OWL• Work is being done to properly incorporate rules• We have a standard for query since 2008: SPAR-
QL• We have some additional technologies to
access/create RDF data: GRDDL, RDFa, POWDER, …
• Some fundamental vocabularies became pervasive (FOAF, Dublin Core,…)
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Lots of Tools (not an exhaustive list!)• Categories:
• Triple Stores• Inference engines• Converters• Search engines• Middleware• CMS• Semantic Web browsers• Development environments• Semantic Wikis• …
• Some names:• Jena, AllegroGraph, Mulgara,
Sesame, flickurl, …• TopBraid Suite, Virtuoso environ-
ment, Falcon, Drupal 7, Redland, Pellet, …
• Disco, Oracle 11g, RacerPro, IODT, Ontobroker, OWLIM, Tallis Platform, …
• RDF Gateway, RDFLib, Open Anzo, DartGrid, Zitgist, Ontotext, Protégé, …
• Thetus publisher, SemanticWorks, SWI-Prolog, RDFStore…
• …
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Lots of tools (cont.)• Significant speed, store capacity, etc; improve-
ments are reported every day• Some of the tools are open source, some are not;
some are very mature, some are not: it is the usual picture of software tools, nothing special any more!
• Anybody can start developing RDF-based applica-tions today
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There is a great community• There are lots of tutorials, overviews, and books
around• again, some of them good, some of them bad, just as
with any other areas…• Active developers’ communities
• blogs, IRC channels, mailing lists, various fora: more than what one person can oversee…
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Great community…
From a presentation given by David Norheim, Computas AS, at the ESTC2008 Conference, Vienna, Austria
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Some deployment communities• Major communities pick the technology up: digital
libraries, defence, eGovernment, energy sector, fin-ancial services, health care, oil and gas industry, life sciences …
• Health care and life science sector is now very active• Semantic Web also appears in the “Web 2.0/Web
3.0” world (whatever that means )• exchange of social data• personal “space” applications• multimedia asset management (video, photos, audio, …)• etc
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So what is the Semantic Web?
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• There is a growing number of application patterns referring to the Semantic Web:
• data integration using RDF, SKOS, OWL, …• knowledge engineering with complex ontologies
• using, eg, OWL and/or rule based reasoning• better data management, archiving, cataloging, etc
• eg, digital library applications• managing, coordinating, combining Web services• intelligent software agents• improving search (usually using domain specific vocab-
ularies…)• etc
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The nice, structured view…
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But maybe this is where we are?
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• Maybe, but being an elephant is not necessary bad!
• it shows that the Semantic Web is a mature technology• that there is lots of interest, applications• various application areas pick what they need…
• e.g., some need sophisticated knowledge management, so they go for complex ontologies…
• some concentrate on semantically simpler vocabularies but large volume of data
• …and that is fine, there is room for many!
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• But it is good to (re-)emphasize some principles• The Semantic Web:
• extends the principles of the Web from documents to data; create a Web of data
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• It is the Semantic Web, and not only Semantics!• data, ontologies, vocabularies, etc, can (and should!) be
shared, reused, potentially on Web scale• one can use the Web infrastructure to denote “things”…
• Eg: http://www.ivan-herman/me denotes, well, me (not my home page, not my foaf file, but me!)
• … and add relationships for those, too!• The major importance of the SW is that it provides
an abstract integration layer for data on the Web
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Some new technologies to watch
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How do I get data out?
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How to provide RDF data?• Of course, one could create RDF data manually…• … but that is unrealistic on a large scale• Goal is to generate RDF data automatically when
possible and “fill in” by hand only when necessary• Various data formats should be considered
• databases (relational or otherwise)• data in XML, HTML, in pictures, videos, etc
• Details of the process is still subject of very active R&D!
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Bridge to relational databases• Huge amount of data are stored in (relational)
databases• “RDFying” them is impossible
• “Bridges” are being defined:• a layer between RDF and the relational data
• RDB tables are “mapped” to RDF graphs, possibly on the fly• a number of systems can be used as database as well
as triple stores (eg, Oracle, OpenLink, …) • Work for a standard mapping language may start at
W3C soon
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Linking Open Data Project• Goal: “expose” open datasets in RDF• Set RDF links among the data items from different
datasets• Set up query endpoints• Altogether billions of triples, millions of links…
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Example data source: DBpedia• DBpedia is a community effort to
• extract structured (“infobox”) information from Wikipedia• provide a query endpoint to the dataset• interlink the DBpedia dataset with other datasets on the
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Extracting Wikipedia structured data @prefix dbpedia <http://dbpedia.org/resource/>.@prefix dbterm <http://dbpedia.org/property/>.
dbpedia:Amsterdam dbterm:officialName “Amsterdam” ; dbterm:longd “4” ; dbterm:longm “53” ; dbterm:longs “32” ; ... dbterm:leaderTitle “Mayor” ; dbterm:leaderName dbpedia:Job_Cohen ; ... dbterm:areaTotalKm “219” ; ...dbpedia:ABN_AMRO dbterm:location dbpedia:Amsterdam ; ...
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Automatic links among open datasets<http://dbpedia.org/resource/Amsterdam> owl:sameAs <http://rdf.freebase.com/ns/...> ; owl:sameAs <http://sws.geonames.org/2759793> ; ...
<http://sws.geonames.org/2759793> owl:sameAs <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Amsterdam> wgs84_pos:lat “52.3666667” ; wgs84_pos:long “4.8833333” ; geo:inCountry <http://www.geonames.org/countries/#NL> ; ...
Processors can switch automatically from one to the other…
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The LOD “cloud”, March 2008
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The LOD “cloud”, September 2008
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The LOD “cloud”, March 2009
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• An emerging approach:• use Natural Language Processing (NLP) to analyse text• services exist (Reuter’s Open Calais and Tagaroo, Zemanta)• these often return URI-s into, eg, Dbpedia
• Use these techniques to, eg, automatically “tag” entries• eg: Twine, Faviki• the tag URI-s provide “integration points”
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Data may be extracted (a.k.a. “scraped”)• Different tools, services, etc, come to the fore:
• services to get RDF data from images’ XMP data, from Flickr…
• scripts to convert spreadsheets to RDF• etc
• Many of these tools are still individual “hacks”, but show a general tendency
• Hopefully more tools will emerge• there is a separate wiki page collecting references to ex-
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Getting structured data to RDF: GRDDL• Access structured data in XML/XHTML and turn it
into RDF:• defines XML attributes to bind a suitable script to trans-
form (part of) the data into RDF• script is usually XSLT but not necessarily• has a variant for XHTML
• a “GRDDL Processor” runs the script and produces RDF on–the–fly
• A way to access existing structured data and “bring” it to RDF
• eg, a possible link to microformats• exposing data from large XML use bases, like XBRL
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Getting structured data to RDF: RDFa• Extends XHTML with a set of attributes to include
structured data into XHTML• Makes it easy to “bring” existing RDF vocabularies
into XHTML• uses namespaces for an easy mix of terminologies
• It can also be used with GRDDL • but: no need to implement a separate transformation
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How to “assign” RDF data to resources?• This is important when the RDF data is used as
“metadata”• Some examples:
• copyright information for your photographs• is a Web page usable on a mobile phone and how?• bibliographical data for a publication• annotation of the data resulting from a scientific experi-
ment• etc
• The issue: if I have the URI of the resource (photo-graph, publication, etc), how do I find the relevant RDF data?
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The data might be embedded• Some data formats allow the direct inclusion of
(RDF) metadata:• SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics)• XHTML+RDFa• microformats+GRDDL• JPG files using the comment area and, eg, Adobe’s
XMP technology• That can include all the information, or link to fur-
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POWDER• POWDER (Protocol for Web Description Re-
sources) provides for more elaborate scenarios• Lets you define predicates that are automatically
“assigned” to a set of resources
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POWDER scenario: copyright for photos
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Some technical details…• The “description resource” is an XML file• This XML file has a canonical conversion to OWL• Specialized POWDER services will be set up:
– give the URI of a Resource and the corresponding de-scription resource, return all RDF statements on that URI
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Simple Knowledge Organization System• Goal: represent and share classifications, glossar-
ies, thesauri, etc, as developed in the “Print World”. • for example:
• Dewey Decimal Classification, Art and Architecture Thesaur-us, ACM classification of keywords and terms…
• allow for a quick port of this traditional data, combine it with other data
• This is where SKOS comes in: define classes and properties to add those structures to an RDF uni-verse
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Example: entries in a glossary
(from the RDF Semantics Glossary)
Assertion (i) Any expression which is claimed to be true.
(ii) The act of claiming something to be true.Class A general concept, category or classification. Something
used primarily to classify or categorize other things.Resource (i) An entity; anything in the universe.
(ii) As a class name: the class of everything; the most inclusive category possible.
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Example: entries in a glossary in SKOS
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A more complex structure(using LCSH terms)
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SKOS and digital libraries• SKOS plays an important role in “bridging” to digital
libraries• a huge community with its own traditions, style…• … but huge amount of data to be “linked” to the Se-
mantic Web!• Major library metadata standards are being re-
defined in terms of RDF (and SKOS), • eg, “Resource Description and Access” (RDA)
• a major cataloguing rule set for librarians• potentially, all major library catalogues around the globe could
be translated into RDF and, eg, linked as an Open Linked Data…
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Conclusions on data access• There are many different data sources around• Making them available on the Web and interlinking
them is essential• “Give your raw data” — Tim Berners-Lee
• There are number of technologies to do that:• mapping from databases, GRDDL, RDFa, SKOS,
POWDER, conversion tools
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Querying Data
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Querying RDF: SPARQL• Is a W3C Standard since January 2008
• it has already become one of the absolutely essential technologies on the SW
• SPARQL is• a query language based on graph patterns• a protocol layer to use SPARQL over, eg, HTTP• an XML return format for the query results
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SPARQL as a unifying point!
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New SPARQL WG: Goals• To define a small set of extensions to SPARQL• No complex change, backward compatibility• Listen to user and implementation experiences of
the past few years• Group started in February 2009
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Planned features• Update, ie, ability to change the RDF store• Service description framework
• what type of extensions, inference possibilities, etc, are available at the endpoint
• Addition to the query language• aggregate functions• subqueries• negation• project expressions
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Planned features(tentative syntax examples)
• Aggregate functions and project expressions:•
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• Subqueries:•
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• Negation:
SELECT AVG(?age) AS average_age WHERE { .... }SELECT (?age < 18) AS minor WHERE { ... }
SELECT ?person (SELECT ?n WHERE { ?person foaf:name ?n } LIMIT 1)WHERE { <http://www.ivan-herman.net/me> foaf:knows ?person. }
SELECT *WHERE { ?x :p ?v. UNSAID { ?x :q ?v. } }
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Possible features (time permitting)• Definition of “entailment regimes”
• RDFS, OWL Profiles, RIF• Property paths• Commonly used functions (eg, string manipulation)• Basic control for federated queries• Additional query language syntax
• commas in select lists, some operators in filters
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Ontologies (OWL)
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Ontologies: OWL• This is also a stable specification since 2004• Separate layers have been defined, balancing ex-
pressibility vs. implementability (OWL-Lite, OWL-DL, OWL-Full)
• Looking at the tool list on W3C’s wiki again:• a number programming environments include OWL
reasoners• stand-alone reasoners (downloadable or on the Web)• ontology editors come to the fore
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Ontologies• Large ontologies are being developed (converted
from other formats or defined in OWL). For ex-ample:
• eClassOwl: eBusiness ontology for products and ser-vices, 75,000 classes and 5,500 properties
• National Cancer Institute’s ontology: about 58,000 classes
• Open Biomedical Ontologies Foundry: a collection of ontologies, including the Gene Ontology, to describe gene and gene product attributes; or UniProt for protein sequence and annotation terminology and data
• BioPAX: for biological pathway data• ISO 15926: “Integration of life-cycle data for process
plants including oil and gas production facilities”
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OWL in applications• An increasing number of applications rely on OWL
(Pfizer, Nasa, Eli Lilly, Elsevier, FAO, …)• Not all use complex reasoning; in many cases a
small fraction of OWL is used
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OWL Working Group• A new Working Group works on the revision of
OWL (a.ka. OWL 2)• The goal of the group:
1. add a few extensions to current OWL that are useful, and is known to be implementable
• many things happened in research since 20042. define “profiles” of OWL that are:
• smaller, easier to implement and deploy • cover important application areas and are easily understand-
able to non-expert users
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Some new features in OWL 2• Syntactic sugars
– eg, disjoint union of classes• New constructs for properties
– property chains, reflexive properties• Extended datatype facilities
– define a numerical interval as an OWL Datatype class• Profiles
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The overall structure has not changed
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Profiles• OWL 2 has the same duality with Full and DL• But, for a number of applications, but even OWL
Lite is too much• There is a need for “light” versions of OWL: just a
few extra possibilities added to RDFS
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OWL 2 defines “profiles”• Further restrictions on how terms can be used and
what inferences can be expected• The semantic approaches are identical, but restric-
tions may ensure even more manageable imple-mentations
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OWL 2 profiles• Classification and instance queries in polynomial
time: OWL-EL• Implementable on top of conventional relational
database engines: OWL-QL • Implementable on top of traditional rule engines:
OWL-RL
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An example: OWL-RL• Goal: to be implementable through rule engines• Usage follows a similar approach to RDFS:
− merge the ontology and the instance data into a big RDF graph
− use the rule engine to add new triples (as long as it is pos-sible)
− then, for example, use SPARQL to query the resulting (expanded) graph
• This application model is very important for RDF based applications
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Miscellaneous
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Everything has not been solved…• There are a number of issues, problems
• missing functionalities: encryption/signatures, fuzzy reasoning, …
• misconceptions, messaging problems• need for more applications, deployment, acceptance• incorporation of rule languages (that is being worked on
by the RIF Working Group)• etc
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Other items…• Security, trust, provenance
• combining cryptographic techniques with the RDF mod-el, sign a portion of the graph, etc
• trust models• Quality constraints on graphs
• “may I be sure that certain patterns are present in a graph?”
• Ontology merging, alignment, term equivalences, versioning, development, …
• What does reasoning mean on billions of triples?• etc
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Other items: uncertainty• Fuzzy logic
• look at alternatives of DL based on fuzzy logic• alternatively, extend RDF(S) with fuzzy notions
• Probabilistic statements• have an OWL class membership with a specific probab-
ility• combine reasoners with Bayesian networks
• A W3C Incubator Group issued a report on the cur-rent status, possibilities, directions, etc
• report published in April 2008
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Other items: naming• The SW infrastructure relies on unique naming of
“things” via URI-s• Lots of discussions are happening that also touch
upon general Web architecture:• HTTP URI-s or other URN-s?
• using non-HTTP unnecessarily complicates the general infra-structure
• URI-s for “informational resources” and “non informa-tional resources”
• how to ensure that URI-s used on the SW are derefer-encable
• etc
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Other items: naming (cont)• A different aspect of naming: what is the URI for a
specific entity (regardless of the technical details)• what is the unique URI for, eg, Bach’s Well-Tempered
Clavier?• obviously important for, eg, music ontologies and data• who has the authority or the means to define and maintain
such URI-s? • should we define characterizing properties for these and use owl:sameAs instead of a URI? • the traditional library community may be of a big help in this
area• what is the URI of time-dependent entity (e.g., a specific
point within a video)?
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Revision of the RDF model?• Some restrictions in RDF may be unnecessary (b-
Nodes as predicates, literals as subject, …)• Issue of “named graph”: possibility to give a URI to
a set of triplets and make statements on those• Syntax issues in RDF/XML• Add a time tag to statements?• …
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A major problem: messaging• Some of the messaging on Semantic Web has
gone terribly wrong over the years• This has created lots of (unnecessary) controver-
sies• The whole community should be active in rectifying
those…
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Thank you for your attention!
These slides are also available on the Web:
http://www.w3.org/2009/Talks/05-Oz-StateOfSW-IH/