Weaving Meaning: An Overview of the Semantic Web by Eric Miller, W3C

Table of contents

• Weaving Meaning : An Overview of The Semantic Web
• Objectives
• About me
• About you
• Outline
• Section 1: What is the Semantic Web?
• The Semantic Web: What is it?
• Many things to many people ...
• The Semantic Web
• The original web realized
• The Semantic Web - A Simple Extension of the Web (Slide 1)
• The Semantic Web - A simple extension of the Web (Slide 2)
• The Semantic Web - A simple extension of the Web (Slide 3)
• Semantic Web Goals: Data Integration at Web Scale
• Semantic Web Goals: Data Integration at Web Scale- Continued
• The Current Web
• The Semantic Web
• What is a Web of Data?
• What is a Web of Data? - Continued
• A Web of Data
• Wrapping the Existing Web
• Current Web
• Semantic Web: Web Evolution not Revolution
• The Problem of Finding Information
• The Problem of Sharing Information
• The Problem of Combining Information
• Different structure for describing same thing
• The world is a big, multilingual place
• XML in the wild
• Towards a Semantic Web
• Point Solutions Versus General Solution
• The Lack of Machine-Processable Semantics
• Analogy: What We Say to Dogs
• What Computers Understand
• How Google Works
• Exploiting Machine Processable Semantics
• What Is Needed?
• What Is Needed (Technically)?
• The Semantic Web is Not
• Section 2
• The World Wide Web Consortium
• Semantic Web
• Semantic Web Goal
• Semantic Web Technologies
• Standing on the Shoulders of Giants
• RDF: The element of the Semantic Web
• The relational database
• Semantic web includes tables,...
• ...trees
• ... everything
• RDF
• Example
• RDF / XML
• Basic Concept
• Basic Model
• Continued
• Continued
• Joining the Web: Data in RDF ...
• ... merges just like that.
• Describing Collections
• RDF Schema
• Describing / Declaring Classes
• RDF/XML representation
• Describing / Declaring Properties
• Describing / Declaring Properties : take 2
• RDF Schema
• RDF Schema
• OWL: Web Ontology Language
• OWL languages
• Outreach
• FOAF
• Creative Commons
• Dublin Core
• RSS 1.0
• NCI Thesaurus
• Uniprot
• Ontology / Data discovery
• Community Collaboration
• Section 3
• Community Involvement
• Creating Semantic Data - Adobe's XMP
• Creating Semantic Data - Pound Hill
• Navigating the Semantic Web - Foafnaut
• Navigating the Semantic Web - FoafCORP
• Semantic Web in the Client - Haystack
• Haystack - Managing Photo collections
• Haystack - Life Sciences Researcher's Desktop
• Semantic Web in the Enterprise - Sun's Swordfish
• Semantic Web and Content Management - Tucana
• Semantic Web at the Institutional Scale
• Semantic Web and Searching - TAP
• Semantic Web Calendars - Semaview's Sherpa
• Semantic Web Engines - NetworkInference's Cerebra
• Dublin Core Metadata Initiative
• DCMI Registry : Sample result set
• And many, many, many more!
• Semantic Web Tools and Toolkits
• RDFlib
• Example code: Initializing an RDF database
• Example code; Modifying the database
• Example code: Loading RDF data
• Example code: Querying the database
• Jena2
• RAP
• Wilbur
• Drive
• Redland
• CWM
• Any many, many, many more!
• Section 4
• Lessons Learned
• Lessons Learned
• Social Demands on Semantic Web Architecture
• Next Steps
• Data Access
• Best Practice
• Advanced Development
• Integrating Life Science Data
• Future Directions
• Conclusions
• Additional information
• Open Discussion