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The Semantic Web: Building a Web of Data

Eric Miller
W3C Semantic Web Activity Lead

WWW 2006
Edinburgh, Scotland, May 26, 2006

Slides are available at http://www.w3.org/2006/Talks/0526-semweb-em/

Semantic Web

A Web of Data
Framework to facilitate data integration
Data reuse across application, organizational, community boundaries - "recombinant data"

Enabling Technologies

RDF, RDF Schema, OWL, SPARQL* in place
Rules on schedule

Continued work

Building bridges - Making it easier to create, expose, and processing data

SPARQL - "Join the Web"
GRDDL - XML and RDF
SKOS - Enterprise, community thesari and taxonomies in the Semantic Web
RDF/A - Hyperlink and the Semantic Web
Education and Outreach - Markets (e.g. enterprise, mobile, government, etc.)
Community - Health Care / Life Sciences

Activity Lead

Effective June 1, Ivan Herman, W3C

Panel

"How does the Semantic Web enable Drug Discovery?", Eric Neumann, Ternanode
"BioRDF: Seeding the Semantic Web", Susie Stevens, Oracle
"Integrating Life Sciences Data on the Web using SPARQL", Lee Feigenbaum, IBM
"Semantic empowerment of Health Care and Life Science Applications", Amit Sheth, Semagix
"RDFa: Bridging the Hypertext and Semantic Webs", Ben Adida, Creative Commons