Book Excerpt: Semantic Web for the Working Ontologist
he promise of the Semantic Web to provide a universal medium to exchange data, information, and knowledge has been well publicized. There are many sources for basic information on the
he promise of the Semantic Web to provide a universal medium to exchange data, information, and knowledge has been well publicized. There are many sources for basic information on the
ews feeds in all their manifestations—both with and without RDF—have a long tradition as structured data on the web. RDF—the data model—can state relations between certain entities. For example, one
here is no question that the web is an unprecedented success. It is the single most adventurous and useful platform for information exchange ever conceived and built. The architectural choices
WL ontologies allow you to describe data and relationships between data items. Common examples of this include complex knowledge domains such as pharmacology, but you can use OWL ontologies with
nyone who has started to look into the semantic web has inevitability seen the Semantic Web Layer Cake diagram some place. This ubiquitous image highlights an overall (and evolving) vision
Semantic search has attracted a lot of attention in the past year, largely due to the growth of the semantic web as a whole. The term semantic search itself is
any digital documents reside on the web and other networks, but few of them have sufficient metadata to accurately identify the content. Adding metadata to a document has typically been
he Semantic Web is a grand vision for increasing the power of the web through better expression and management of context. Semantic Web developers are building a framework to open
ave you ever used a multi-user system and found yourself wondering, “How did this get changed?” or, “Who created this and why?” Helping your users track the system changes and