Pitfalls and Practicalities of Reasoning on the Web
by Eric Prud'hommeaux

Table of contents

• Pitfalls and Practicalities of Reasoning on the Web
• Diversity of Data
• Unambiguity of Data
• Scalability
• Organic Growth
• Enthusiasm
• Steps to building a semantic web
• Step 1 - Data identification and retrieval:
• Step 2 - Development of vocabularies:
• Step 3 - Model constraints:
• Step 4 - Assertions and proofs:
• Aggregation from multiple resources
• Trust - Aggregation in a non-homogeneous administrative environment
• Time - Where logic meets protocols
• Query scaling costs
• Ambiguities between URIs and resources
• Stacking logic
• W3C RDF infrastructure
• ACLs system
• N3 brief
• RDF expression
• Modularity
• Conclusions:

A recent edition is to be presented at ISWC.