LCS SEMINAR : Thursday 19 September 2002


W3C

Semantic Web: A Certain Progress, Many Challenges

Tim Berners-Lee

Director, World Wide Web Consortium

Senior Research Scientist, MIT Laboratory for Computer Science


Abstract:

The Semantic Web is a global Web of data expressed as a graph of relationships. Currently, basic data formats are maturing, ontology standards are in the works, and standards for rules and inference, and the exchange of proofs are at various stages of research and advanced development. At LCS/W3C, the RDF graph language has been extended ("Notation3") to express inference rules. Practical experience in using these for personal information management, and also in the Annotea distributed annotation system provide one set of challenges, while attempts to define a formal system which unifies all the various systems used by others provide another set. Can rules be interchanged between inference systems and database systems? Can one publish a statement on the Web with any form of absolute meaning? How can one best prototype a future vast system of heterogeneous knowledge bases?


Location:
MIT Laboratory for Computer Science

Thursday, 19 September 2002
1:45 pm Refreshments
2:00 pm Talk
NE43-518/200 Technology Square


World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)
MIT Laboratory for Computer Science
200 Technology Square
Cambridge, MA, USA 02139
tel:+1.617.253.2613
http://www.w3.org