W3C Semantic Web Activity
by Marja-Riitta Koivunen

Table of contents

• W3C Semantic Web Activity
• Overview
• The Semantic Web: What is it?
• The Semantic Web: What is it?
• The Semantic Web: The original web realized
• The Current Web
• The Semantic Web - A Simple Extension to the Current Web
• W3C SW Activity - Goals
• W3C SW Activity - Structure
• W3C SW Activity - Approach to Deployment
• SW Principles 1: Everything Identifiable is on SW
• SW Principles 2: Partial Information
• SW Principles 3: Web of Trust
• SW Principles 3: Web of Trust
• SW Principles 4: Evolution
• SW Principles 5: Minimalist Design
• Enabling Standards & Technologies - Layer Cake
• RDF Core Working Group (RDFCore)
• Example - Formalized expression of simple vocabularies
• Example - Modelling simple vocabulary
• Web Ontology Working Group (WebOnt)
• Example - Formalized support for ontology merging
• Example - Modeling dmoz
• Example - Dmoz and My Favorites
• Example - Merging Dmoz and My Favorites
• SW Public Forums
• SW Advanced Development - Goals
• SW Advanced Development - Areas
• SW Advanced Development - Annotation, Collaboration, and Web of Trust
• SWAD Example - Workflow
• SWAD Example - Workflow
• SWAD Example - Workflow (Announce)
• SWAD Example - Workflow (Announce, Org Merge)
• SWAD Example - Workflow (Announce, Org Merge)
• SWAD Example - Workflow (Announce, Org Merge)
• SWAD Example - Workflow (Announce, Org, Contact, Membership Merge)
• SW Advanced Development - DSpace collaboration
• Future Directions of the SW Activity
• Conclusions
• The End