Owl includes constructs for identifying ontologies and importing one ontology into another. Owl ontologies are web documents and are stored and retrieved just as other web documents. Web intelligence is regarded as the key research field for the development of the wisdom web including the semantic web. Oct 20, 20 a semantic web primer grigoris antoniou and frank van harmelen a semantic web primer antoniou and van harmelen. Information overload an overview sciencedirect topics. Semantic web technologies can be applied to solving these problems. Web intelligence edition 1 by ning zhong 9783642079368. A semantic web primer grigoris antoniou, frank van harmelen. A semantic web primer tlfebook cooperative information systems michael papazoglou, joachim w. Collaborative ontology engineering for the semantic web. An ontology is an abstraction of a particular domain, and there are always viable alternatives. With the current changes driven by the expansion of the world wide web, this book.
Isabel cruz, department of computer science, university of illinois, chicago the mit press massachusetts institute of. 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. A generic architecture for storing and querying rdf. 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.
Foundations for the web of information and services. The following section describes the architecture incorporating meaning to the web resources. This book presents the latest research and application results in the semantic web. Internet has been instrumental in delivering digital i. 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. His diverse research interests span semantic web, knowledge represen. A free powerpoint ppt presentation displayed as a flash slide show on id. 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 resource description framework rdf lassila and swick, 1999. Overview of emerging semantic web enabling technologies 2. Dr steve battle works in hp labs in the uk, applying the semantic web to service oriented architectures across the company. Tim bernerslee calls this layered architecture the semantic web bernerslee, 1998.
Foundations for the web of information and services ebook by. 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. 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. Knowledge representation, sharing, and retrieval on the web. Ontotext is a bulgarian software company headquartered in sofia. General architecture of the ontomedia mediation platform. Contentdriven knowledgemanagement tools through evolving ontologies ist1999102. Tim bernerslee calls this layered architecture thesemantic web 2. An introduction to ontologies and ontology engineering.
Tim bernerslee calls this layered architecture the semantic web 2. Pdf a functional semantic web architecture researchgate. Libraries play a critical role in the dissemination of knowledge and serve as repositories of knowledge. Papazoglou, stefano spaccapietra, and zahir tari, editors, 2000 work. Workshop at semantic web in libraries conference swib 14, december 2014. A generic architecture for storing and querying rdf and rdf schema jeen broekstra arjohn kampman jeen. Pdf a layered architecture for the semantic web that adheres to software. This chapter describes the architecture and the main features of swarms.
Knowledge representation and reasoning on the semantic web. Linked data is a standardsdriven model for representing structured data on the web that gives developers, publishers, and information architects a consistent. Ontology learning part one on discovering taxonomic relations from the web. 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. 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. Its main domain of activity is the development of software based on the semantic web languages and standards, in particular rdf, owl and sparql. As the first book devoted to web intelligence, this coherently written multiauthor monograph provides a thorough. It is the semantic technology branch of sirma group.
This book contains information obtained from authentic and highly regarded sources. Workshop at semantic web in libraries conference swib, november 20. Exploiting the web as parallel corpora for crosslanguage information retrieval. Ontoknowledge technical fact sheet for the otk tool suite demo institute aifb, university of karlsruhe, archiv number. 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. The purpose of this chapter is to provide an overall motivation for the books subject. Swap semantic web and peertopeer is a proposal for a european union project under the 7th ist call, in the semantic web action line1. 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.
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. Architecture of the semantic web tim bernerslee outlined his vision for the semantic web as a layered architecture figure 1. This approach combines linguistic processing, word sense disambiguation and relation extraction techniques. The resource description framework rdf 12 is this foundation for processing metadata, providing a simple data model and a standardized syntax for. 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. 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. Ppt chapter 7 ontology engineering powerpoint presentation. The use of semantic technologies in legal applications. He is investigating the development of nextgeneration standards that extend the existing webservice architecture and embrace the tools and technologies of the semantic web.
A promising approach based on a metalevel architecture is described in bowers. Author seth grimes lists 11 approaches that join semantics to search,1 and. The ontoknowledge tools will help knowledge workers to access companywide information repositories in an e. Rdf and rdf schema provide the rst w3c standard to enrich the web with machineprocessable semantic data. 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. Schmidt, and john mylopoulos, editors advances in objectoriented data modeling michael p. A generic architecture for storing and querying rdf and rdf schema pages. Easily share your publications and get them in front of issuus. Author seth grimes lists 11 approaches that join semantics to search,1 and hildebrand et al. Artificial intelligent researchers have initially borrowed the word ontology from philosophy, then the word spread in many scientific domain and ontologies are. 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. At the lowest level of the semantic web a generic mechanism for expressing machine readable semantics of data is required. On to knowledge technical fact sheet for the otk tool suite demo institute aifb, university of karlsruhe, archiv number. An architecture for storing and querying rdf data and.
A true geek bonus is the depth of coverage, with rich explanations, examples, and a look at next generation web services. A semantic web primer second edition grigoris antoniou and frank van harmelen the mit presscambr. The resource description framework rdf 12 is this foundation for processing metadata, providing a simple data model and a stan. To achieve the semantic web, web resources should be described in the way that makes their meaning explicit. The eu ist1999102 project ontoknowledge 1 develops methods and tools to employ the full power of the ontological approach for facilitating knowledge management. A semantic web primer grigoris antoniou and frank van harmelen a semantic web primer antoniou and van harmelen. 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. A semantic web primer provides an introduction and guide to this still emerging field, describing its key. The semantic web deals with important application areas such as knowledge management. Sesame is an extensible architecture implementing both of these. Issuu is a digital publishing platform that makes it simple to publish magazines, catalogs, newspapers, books, and more online. Artificial intelligent researchers have initially borrowed the word ontology from philosophy, then the word spread in many scientific domain and. Smith is a principal software architect at mcdonald bradley, where he serves as chief security architect on the dods virtual knowledge base project.
Enabling knowledge representation on the web by extending rdf. 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. Ontoknowledgebuilds an ontologybased tool environment to improve. 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. The semantic web for knowledge and data management. In the early 1990s, researchers in the semantic web technologies recognized the need for an ontology web language. What is included in this abstraction should be determined by. Knowledge representation and reasoning on the semantic.
The book also examines such crucial related topics as ontology. An architecture is proposed that, focusing on the wikipedia as a textual repository, aims at enriching it with semantic information in an automatic way. As a result, several proposals for new ontology web languages emerged. The semantic web for knowledge and data management igi global. Enabling knowledge representation on the web by extending.
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