Introduction to the Semantic Web

Ivan Herman, W3C Head of Offices
Helsinki, 6 May, 2003

Slides of the presentation held in Helsinki, Finland, on the 06 May, 2003 at the Seminar on Semantic Web & Web Services, organized by the W3C Finnish Office.

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  1. Title Page
  2. Towards a Semantic Web
  3. What Is Needed?
  4. Problem Example
  5. Statements
  6. Resource Description Framework
  7. Simple RDF statements
  8. URI-s Play a Fundamental Role
  9. Adding a new predicate
  10. RDF Containers
  11. RDF Containers (cont)
  12. Building more complex statements
  13. More on RDF
  14. Binding RDF to an XML Resource
  15. Use of RDF in our example
  16. RDF or XML?
  17. RDF is not Enough...
  18. Possible Issues to Handle
  19. Ontologies
  20. W3C's Ontology Language (OWL)
  21. An Example in OWL
  22. Deduction Possibilities
  23. OWL Examples: Classes
  24. OWL Examples: Properties
  25. Property Characterizations
  26. Miscellaneous possibilities
  27. However: Ontologies are Hard!
  28. Available Specifications: Primers
  29. Available Specifications: RDF
  30. Available Specifications: Ontology
  31. Public Fora at W3C
  32. Some Tools
  33. SW Application Examples
  34. SW Application Examples (cont)
  35. SW Application Examples (cont)
  36. Further Information
  37. The Two "Sides" of the Web...
  38. Machine-to-machine Communication
  39. They are Complementary!
  40. A Simple Matching Problem
  41. WS Oriented Search Engines
  42. Ontology Services
  43. Convergence at W3C