Outline

1: Understanding the Semantic Web

• What is the Semantic Web
• Purpose of the Semantic Web
  • Find, share, combine info
• Need computers to "understand" more
• Make info more machine processable
• Key problems with human languages:
  • Ambiguity
    • URIs, Ontologies
  • Language complexity
    • RDF

2: Toward Semantic Web Applications

Slides: http://www.w3.org/2002/Talks/0813-semweb-dbooth/