Fundamentals of the Semantic Web: Global Data Reuse
by David Booth

Table of contents

• Fundamentals of the Semantic Web: Global Data Reuse
• Speaker Info
• Outline
• Acknowledgements
• W3C
• Web Service
• Web Service Description
• The Need for Semantics
• Referencing Semantics from WSD
• Problem: "Babelization"
• Broader Problem: Difficult to Reuse Data
• Root Difficulty
• Underlying Needs
• What Is the Semantic Web?
• Goal: A More Useful Web
• The Problem of Finding Information
• The Problem of Sharing Information
• The Problem of Combining Information
• The Lack of Machine-Processable Semantics
• Analogy: What We Say to Dogs
• What Computers Understand
• How Google Works
• Exploiting Machine Processable Semantics
• Ways to Enable Machine Processing
• Approach 1: Smarter machines
• Approach 2: Smarter Data
• Underlying Needs
• Ontologies
• Example Ontologies
• URIs as Globally Unambiguous Identifiers
• Examples of URIs as Identifiers
• Standardizing Ontologies
• W3C Web Ontology Working Group
• What Is RDF?
• RDF Triples
• Example RDF Triple
• XML Versus RDF: How Is Information Conveyed?
• Conveying Information in XML Elements and Attribute Contents
• Conveying Information in XML Elements and Attribute Names
• Conveying Information in XML Element Ordering
• Conveying Information in XML Subtree Nesting Structure
• Conveying Information in RDF
• XML Versus RDF: Summary (1)
• XML Versus RDF: Summary (2)
• Web Services and Semantic Web Communities
• RDF and Web Services
• Outline
• END