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| | The Semantic Web lifts off |
 | | The Semantic Web is an extension of the current Web in which information is given well-defined meaning, enabling computers and people to work in better cooperation. | | | The W3C Semantic Web Activity, in collaboration with a large number of researchers and industrial partners, is tasked with defining standards and technologies that allow data on the Web to be defined and linked in a way that it can be used for more effective discovery, automation, integration, and reuse across applications. | | | Web portals, corporate website management, intelligent agents and ubiquitous computing are just some of the identified scenarios that helped shaped the requirements for this work. |
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http://www.ercim.org/publication/Ercim_News/enw51/berners-lee.html
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| | Peter Van Dijck - Themes and metaphors in the semantic web discussion |
| | The Semantic Web is a framework that rigidly defines a means for creating statements of the form “Subject, Predicate, Object” or “triples,” in a machine-readable format, where each of Subject, Predicate, Object is a URI. | | | In an echo of Richard Gabriel's Worse is Better argumment, the Semantic Web imagines that completeness and correctness of data exposed on the web are the cardinal virtues, and that any amount of implementation complexity is acceptable in pursuit of those virtues. | | | This is mostly true: the semantic web people want you to use RDF to share your semantic data, but they realize lots of semantic data is and will be shared in other forms - see RDF Versus XML. |
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http://www.poorbuthappy.com/ease/semantic
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| | Semantic Web Days Munich Oct. 6/7 2005 |
| | A major goal of the two-day conference was to present the latest Semantic Web technologies which are very promising or already in use. | | | But although only a limited number of projects are so far realized with Semantic Web technologies, the power of the Semantic Web approach as well as the need for catch-up became obvious at the Semantic Web Days. | | | The far more than 100 participants at the Semantic Web Days showed no doubt that there is high potential for the application and already convincing pre-deployed applications of Semantic Web technologies. |
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| | Developers Day |
| | One spin-off project of our Semantic Web Advanced Development work at MIT is to exploit the opportunities presented by combining these systems interactively and in real-time. | | | The emergent Semantic Web community [SW] needs common infrastructure for evaluating new techniques and software which use machine processable data. | | | Building a complex Semantic Web application, one may not rely on a single software module to deliver all these different services. |
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http://trust.mindswap.org/DevDay/semweb.shtml
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| | Crawling the Semantic Web |
| | Just as the web grew in usefulness as it was traversed, indexed and searched by systems such as Lycos, Altavista and Google, the semantic web requires technologies that can crawl, aggregate and query the RDF data. | | | The W3C vision for 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 W3C defines (http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/) the semantic web as "the representation of data on the World Wide Web", rightly making no restriction on what the type or use of that data might be. |
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http://idealliance.org/papers/dx_xmle04/papers/03-06-03/03-06-03.html
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| | W3C Semantic Web |
| | The Semantic Web is a web of data. | | | The Web Ontology Working Group is chartered to build upon the RDF Core work a language for defining structured web based ontologies which will provide richer integration and interoperability of data among descriptive communities. | | | SPARQL query language (pronounced "sparkle") and is designed to convey queries from other RDF query languages as well. |
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http://www.w3.org/2001/sw
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| | The Impact of Emerging Technologies: Sir Tim Berners-Lee - Technology Review |
| | If there were a Semantic Web version of the page, it would have labeled information on it that would tell the computer this is an event, and what time and date it is. And it would automatically add your travel to your event book. | | | He is also personally engaged in developing his second big idea: the Semantic Web, which adds definition tags to information in Web pages and links them in such a way that computers can discover data more efficiently and form new associations between pieces of information, in effect creating a globally distributed database. | | | In the future, the Semantic Web will be a great place to develop artificial intelligence, AI, in the strong sense. |
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http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/04/10/frauenfelder1004.asp
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| | Semantic Web Vision |
| | Semantic web technologies could be used in many ways to transform the functionality of the web: | | | The aim is for the development of the Semantic Web to follow a similar path to that of the World Wide Web itself. | | | The Semantic Web vision is to make the Web machine-readable, allowing computers to integrate information from disparate sources to achieve the goals of end users (see |
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http://www.hpl.hp.com/semweb/sw-vision.htm
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| | SemanticWeb - ESW Wiki |
| | The Semantic Web is a use of the WWW for a web of data. | | | On this wiki, we mostly talk about what is called "Big-S Semantic Web"- data formats such as RDF and OWL that are being defined by the W3C. | | | The developing web of data and protocols, presently growing on the Internet. |
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http://esw.w3.org/topic/SemanticWeb
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| | Semantic Web |
| | TRIPLE is an RDF query, inference, and transformation language for the Semantic Web. | | | RDQL is an implementation of an SQL-like query language for RDF. | | | Semantic Web community portal with news, information and demonstrations of the evolving concepts and technology. |
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http://www.wsindex.org/Semantic_Web
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| | The Semantic Web: An Introduction |
| | However, Semantic Web technologies are still very much in their infancies, and although the future of the project in general appears to be bright, there seems to be little consensus about the likely direction and characteristics of the early Semantic Web. | | | Thankfully, many Semantic Web applications will be lower end appliactions, so you'll no more need to have a knowledge of RDF than Amaya requires one to have a knowledge of (X)HTML. | | | The concept of a SEmantic Memory was first proposed by Seth Russell, who suggested that personal database dumps of RDF that one has collected from the "rest" of the Semantic Web (a kind of Semantic Cloud) would be imperative for maintaining a coherant view of data. |
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http://infomesh.net/2001/swintro
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| | Semantic Web - draft 0.28 |
| | Ideally, there should be a way to use semantic tags to annotate the structure of the document and disambiguate its language for machine processing, intelligent communication with the user, or any other conceivable purpose. | | | The Web should be aware of the content and purpose of its documents and links, and interests of its users, and make the best use of all encoded knowledge. | | | I expect that the next generation of information services will do for Web semantics what HTML and HTTP have done for its communication layer, that is to build a foundation for a global, intelligent, reactive knowledge exchange system. |
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http://www.ethologic.com/sasha/articles/SemanticWeb.html
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| | Retsina Semantic Web Calendar Agent Homepage |
| | The Retsina Semantic Web Calendar Parser works synergistically with the Retsina Calendar Agent, by providing the agent with schedules posted on the Semantic Web and idetifying the contact details of the attendees at the posted meetings. | | | The Electronic Secretary is a web based interface to a distributed Meeting Scheduling Agent, that negotiates meeting requests with an RCal agent. | | | The Calendar Schedule markup connects existing concepts (such as attendee details) defined across the Semantic Web, so that tools such as the Retsina Calendar Agent can autonomously navigate the Semantic Web to colate and fuse the relevant distributed information into a single, coherent knowledge source, and present this knowlegde in a useful manner. |
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| | August 2009: How Google beat Amazon and Ebay to the Semantic Web (Ftrain.com) |
| | It is part of The Semantic Web, which is part of Webs, Semantic and Otherwise, which is part of Life With Machines, which is part of Theory, which is part of Ftrain.com. | | | By late 2003, when Google began to seriously experiment with the Semweb (after two years of experiments at their research labs), it was still a slow-growing technology that almost no one understood and very few people used, except for academics with backgrounds in logic, computer science, or artificial intelligence. | | | You could see the same data on the Web at any time, but the MM was sweet and fast and optimized. |
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http://www.ftrain.com/google_takes_all.html
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| | XML.com: The Semantic Web: A Primer |
| | The point of this article is to draw together the technological threads of the Semantic Web and introduce some tools available now that can be used as a basis for experimentation and development. | | | Technical peeves aside, the value of the Semantic Web is to solve real problems in communication. | | | The development of the Semantic Web is well underway. |
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http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2000/11/01/semanticweb
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| | Semantic Web Mining Workshop at ECML/PKDD-2001 |
| | Three areas can be distinguished: Web usage mining analyzes the user behavior, web structure mining explores the hyperlink structure, and web content mining exploits the contents of the documents in the web. | | | For Web Mining, the levels from XML and RDF to ontologies and logics are of particular interest. | | | He suggests to enrich the web by machine processable information which is organized on different levels (see http://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/Semantic.html). |
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http://semwebmine2001.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de
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| | Making a Semantic Web |
| | Yes, the semantic web needs to be inclusive, but just because anyone can post their opinion, that doesn't mean you have to trust it or even read it. | | | Second, buying enough permanent storage to cache the entire web is the sort of expense that would guarantee that only a few centralized players would be in the market, and this overcentralization would tend to defeat the idea of "the semantic web". | | | In a sense, the edge caches act as aggregators of web content, and they filter the content they aggregate based on popularity (which is a bit of semantic metadata that they have to determine dynamically). |
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| | The Semantic Web: 1-2-3 |
| | Semantic Web Points - 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 - An excellent beginner, this document is designed as being a simple but comprehensive introductory publication for anybody trying to get into the Semantic Web: from beginners through to long time hackers. | | | While this shouldn't be used as authorative for RDF nowadays, it's a decent read on the beginnings, reasonings and design goals of the Semantic Web, and the technology that should make it happen. |
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| | 2nd International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC2003) |
| | The winning applications of the Semantic Web Challenge 2003 will be announced and demonstrated at ISWC2003. | | | The program includes both technical and survey/overview papers, as well as descriptions of working Semantic Web systems, position statements, and reports on work in progress. | | | Rules and Rule Markup Languages for the Semantic Web |
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| | International Semantic Web Conference |
| | The Semantic Web Science Association Web, SWSA, is the Association that organizes the academic conferences on Semantic Web technology. | | | The International Semantic Web Conference is a major international forum at which research on all aspects of the Semantic Web is presented. | | | Semantic Web Working Symposium 2001 (SWWS'01), Stanford, USA |
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| | Joseph Hardin- SI 514 Course: Introduction to the Semantic Web |
| | Convergence of web technologies, AI machine decidable logics, markup language and manipulation efforts, all over the last decade. | | | Web Semantics course (course content is still very much in process and will continue to develop): | | | Joseph Hardin- SI 514 Course: Introduction to the Semantic Web |
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| | Semantic Web Workshop - Home |
| | The "Semantic Web" is used to denote the next evolution step of the Web, which establishes a layer of machine understandable data. | | | The objective of the workshop is to bring researchers and developers of the Semantic Web together not only to represent mature work, but also to discuss the ongoing development in order to allow for smoother and faster progression of the Semantic Web. | | | The ultimate goal of the Semantic Web is to allow machines the sharing and exploitation of knowledge in the Web way, i.e. |
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| | Semantic Web Research at HP Labs |
| | These are among many examples of IT applications that could change dramatically through the introduction of semantic web technology. | | | Today's rigid and poorly-integrated IT architectures can, we believe, be transformed by the metadata standards and flexible, open information systems of the semantic web. | | | Oct 2005 - we released Jena 2.3, integrating ARQ for SPARQL support, and including performance improvements for queries and for parsing RDF/XML. |
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| | Technology News: News: The Future of Human Knowledge: The Semantic Web |
| | Under an interdisciplinary project collectively known as the Semantic Web, computer scientists around the world are working on ways to revolutionize the Internet | | | Some serious computer scientists, although cautious about the promise of the Semantic Web, are ultimately optimistic that it will be everything developers are hoping for -- an online source for all of the knowledge that humanity has created in science, business and the arts. | | | While these technologies will figure prominently in the Semantic Web of the future, today the Semantic Web is more of a vision than a reality, said Steve Woods, a strategic consultant with developer Extreme Logic. |
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| | The Semantic Web In Breadth |
| | A URI is not a set of directions telling your computer how to get to a specific file on the Web (though it may also do this). | | | He has since published The Semantic Web: An Introduction, which builds upon this piece. | | | In this instance, the predicate is "reallyLikes." The third URI is the object. |
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| | Links on the Semantic Web Decentralized Information Group (DIG) Breadcrumbs |
| | When a semantic web document gives information about something, and uses a URI formed from the name of a different document, like foo.rdf#bar, then that's an invitation to look up the document, if you want more information about. | | | I'd like people to use them more, and I think we need to develop algorithms which for deciding when to follow Semantic Web links as a function of what we are looking for. | | | To play with semantic web links, I made a toy semantic web browser, Tabulator. |
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| | Semantic Web Resource Center |
| | The world of Topic Maps is destined to play a role in the Semantic Web; but nearly all serious TM applications require a query language. | | | Leigh Dodds presents the first of a multipart tutorial on SPARQL, a query language for RDF and the Semantic Web, which may also play a role in Web 2.0 apps and services. | | | Digital libraries and generic metadata form part of the background assumptions and forward-looking goals of the Semantic Web. |
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| | pOWL - Semantic Web Development Plattform |
| | Since PHP is by far the most distributed web development technology (as regularly confirmed by Netcraft), the semantic web paradigm will probably only be successful in a broad perspective if there are applications and tools available tightly interacting with this language. | | | The broad application of ontologies as shared terminological knowledge representations is one of the main strategies of the semantic web paradigm. | | | The aim of the pOWL project is thus to deliver a PHP and web-based ontology edititing and management solution to the OpenSoure community. |
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| | International Semantic Web Conference 2002 |
| | ISWC 2002 follows on from the success of the first Semantic Web Working Symposium (SWWS), which was held in Stanford in July, 2001. | | | Both technical and survey/overview papers were solicited, as well as descriptions of working Semantic Web systems, position statements and reports on work in progress. | | | ISWC will be a major international forum at which research on all aspects of the Semantic Web is presented. |
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| | A Course on Semantic Web |
| | Earlier courses on related topics: Semantic Web (Fall 2004), Semantic Web (Fall 2003) | | | How can Semantic Technology revolutionize how we use web to find and organize information, or conduct business? | | | Some consider it to be the next generation of the Web. |
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