An ontology is an abstraction of a particular domain, and there are always viable alternatives. Kybernetes, 2009 thinking on the web offers a fascinating history and impressive background of the age we are living through, and serves as a tribute to three great minds. On to knowledge technical fact sheet for the otk tool suite demo institute aifb, university of karlsruhe, archiv number. From wikipedia, the free encyclopedia semantic search seeks to improve search accuracy by understanding searcher intent and the contextual meaning of terms as they appear in the searchable dataspace, whether on the web or within a closed system, to generate more relevant results. Ontoknowledge technical fact sheet for the otk tool suite demo institute aifb, university of karlsruhe, archiv number. Information overload an overview sciencedirect topics. It is the semantic technology branch of sirma group. The main purpose of the white book is to provide catalan lawmakers with indepth research on the stateoftheart mediation theories and practices as the basis for future legislation and. Enabling knowledge representation on the web by extending. Knowledge management is facing many problems, including information overload, inefficient keyword searching, heterogeneous information integration, and geographically distributed intranet problems, to name but a few. Pdf a layered architecture for the semantic web that adheres to software. The eu ist1999102 project ontoknowledge 1 develops methods and tools to employ the full power of the ontological approach for facilitating knowledge management. The purpose of this chapter is to provide an overall motivation for the books subject.
Linked data is a standardsdriven model for representing structured data on the web that gives developers, publishers, and information architects a consistent. Sesame is an extensible architecture implementing both of these. Owl ontologies are web documents and are stored and retrieved just as other web documents. Libraries play a critical role in the dissemination of knowledge and serve as repositories of knowledge. Rdf and rdf schema provide the rst w3c standard to enrich the web with machineprocessable semantic data. Ontology learning part one on discovering taxonomic relations from the web. A semantic web primer grigoris antoniou, frank van harmelen. Knowledge representation, sharing, and retrieval on the web.
Dr steve battle works in hp labs in the uk, applying the semantic web to service oriented architectures across the company. The semantic web for knowledge and data management igi global. Semantic web enabled knowledge management, pages 3346, wiley, 2002 alexander maedche, steffen staab, nenad stojanovic, rudi studer, york sure inside aifb access to a semantic knowledge portal. Exploiting the web as parallel corpora for crosslanguage information retrieval.
Architecture of the semantic web tim bernerslee outlined his vision for the semantic web as a layered architecture figure 1. What is included in this abstraction should be determined by. The following section describes the architecture incorporating meaning to the web resources. Knowledge representation and reasoning on the semantic. A semantic web primeris the only available book on the semantic web to include a systematic treatment of the different languages xml, rdf, owl, and rules and technologies explicit metadata, ontologies, and logic and inference that are central to semantic web development. The ontoknowledge tools will help knowledge workers to access companywide information repositories in an e.
Pdf a functional semantic web architecture researchgate. A generic architecture for storing and querying rdf and rdf schema pages. A semantic web primer second edition grigoris antoniou and frank van harmelen the development of the semantic web, with machinereadable content, has the potential to revolutionize the world wide web and its uses. Ontotext is a bulgarian software company headquartered in sofia. Overview of emerging semantic web enabling technologies 2. The resource description framework rdf 12 is this foundation for processing metadata, providing a simple data model and a stan. Internet has been instrumental in delivering digital i. The lack of any methodology for modeling semantic web services means that developers wishing to utilize technologies like the web service modeling ontology, the web service modeling language, and the web service execution environment are lost in a semantic wilderness with no road signs to guide them on their way.
Workshop at semantic web in libraries conference swib, november 20. Ppt chapter 7 ontology engineering powerpoint presentation. The book also examines such crucial related topics as ontology. As a result, several proposals for new ontology web languages emerged. Collaborative ontology engineering for the semantic web. Ontoknowledgebuilds an ontologybased tool environment to improve.
A semantic web primer second edition grigoris antoniou and frank van harmelen the mit presscambr. Foundations for the web of information and services ebook by. Smith is a principal software architect at mcdonald bradley, where he serves as chief security architect on the dods virtual knowledge base project. This approach combines linguistic processing, word sense disambiguation and relation extraction techniques. To achieve the semantic web, web resources should be described in the way that makes their meaning explicit. General architecture of the ontomedia mediation platform. Oct 20, 20 a semantic web primer grigoris antoniou and frank van harmelen a semantic web primer antoniou and van harmelen. Ontoknowledge builds an ontologybased tool environment to improve knowledge management, dealing with large numbers of heterogeneous, distributed, and semistructured documents typically found in large company intranets and the worldwide web. Its main domain of activity is the development of software based on the semantic web languages and standards, in particular rdf, owl and sparql.
Author seth grimes lists 11 approaches that join semantics to search,1 and. Foundations for the web of information and services. Enabling knowledge representation on the web by extending rdf. His diverse research interests span semantic web, knowledge represen. Papazoglou, stefano spaccapietra, and zahir tari, editors, 2000 work. An architecture for storing and querying rdf data and. C f smith uses a discussion of past developments, an analysis of patterns of discovery and a debate of prospective technology to synthesize a cohesive and compelling vision. The use of semantic technologies in legal applications. This book presents the latest research and application results in the semantic web. In the last decades, the use of ontologies in information systems has become more and more popular in various fields, such as web technologies, database integration, multi agent systems, natural language processing, etc. Workshop at semantic web in libraries conference swib 14, december 2014. A semantic web primer provides an introduction and guide to this still emerging field, describing its key.
Author seth grimes lists 11 approaches that join semantics to search,1 and hildebrand et al. At the lowest level of the semantic web a generic mechanism for expressing machine readable semantics of data is required. This book contains information obtained from authentic and highly regarded sources. Semantic web technologies can be applied to solving these problems. The resource description framework rdf 12 is this foundation for processing metadata, providing a simple data model and a standardized syntax for. A generic architecture for storing and querying rdf and rdf schema jeen broekstra arjohn kampman jeen. The book covers several highly significant contributions to the semantic web research effort, including a new language for defining ontologies, several novel software tools and a coherent. Contentdriven knowledgemanagement tools through evolving ontologies ist1999102. Initiatives on linked open data for collaborative maintenance and evolution of community knowledge based on ontologies emerge, and the first semantic applications of webbased ontology technology are successfully positioned in areas like semantic search, information integration, or web community portals. Overall, this book provides an excellent overview of the state of the art in semantic web research, by combining historical roots with the latest results, which may finally make the dream of a web of knowledge, software and services come true. This chapter describes the architecture and the main features of swarms. Issuu is a digital publishing platform that makes it simple to publish magazines, catalogs, newspapers, books, and more online.
The semantic web deals with important application areas such as knowledge management. Isabel cruz, department of computer science, university of illinois, chicago the mit press massachusetts institute of. Knowledge representation and reasoning on the semantic web. A generic architecture for storing and querying rdf. The book truly provides a comprehensive view of the semantic web discipline and has all the ingredients that will help an instructor in planning, designing, and delivering the lectures for a graduate course on the subject. A semantic web primer is the only available book on the semantic web to include a systematic treatment of the different languages xml, rdf, owl, and rules and technologies explicit metadata, ontologies, and logic and inference that are central to semantic web development. A free powerpoint ppt presentation displayed as a flash slide show on id. The main purpose of the white book is to provide catalan lawmakers with indepth research on the stateoftheart mediation theories and practices as the basis for future legislation and policies. With the current changes driven by the expansion of the world wide web, this book. As the first book devoted to web intelligence, this coherently written multiauthor monograph provides a thorough.
He is investigating the development of nextgeneration standards that extend the existing webservice architecture and embrace the tools and technologies of the semantic web. Artificial intelligent researchers have initially borrowed the word ontology from philosophy, then the word spread in many scientific domain and ontologies are. Tim bernerslee calls this layered architecture the semantic web 2. Web intelligence is regarded as the key research field for the development of the wisdom web including the semantic web. An architecture is proposed that, focusing on the wikipedia as a textual repository, aims at enriching it with semantic information in an automatic way. Schmidt, and john mylopoulos, editors advances in objectoriented data modeling michael p. Web intelligence edition 1 by ning zhong 9783642079368. Easily share your publications and get them in front of issuus. A semantic web primer grigoris antoniou and frank van harmelen a semantic web primer antoniou and van harmelen. Swap semantic web and peertopeer is a proposal for a european union project under the 7th ist call, in the semantic web action line1. Tim bernerslee calls this layered architecture thesemantic web 2. Tim bernerslee calls this layered architecture the semantic web bernerslee, 1998. A promising approach based on a metalevel architecture is described in bowers.
However, to be able to use this semantic data, a scalable, persistent rdf store and a powerful query engine using an expressive query language are needed. Artificial intelligent researchers have initially borrowed the word ontology from philosophy, then the word spread in many scientific domain and. The semantic web for knowledge and data management. A semantic web primer tlfebook cooperative information systems michael papazoglou, joachim w. A true geek bonus is the depth of coverage, with rich explanations, examples, and a look at next generation web services. Owl includes constructs for identifying ontologies and importing one ontology into another.
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