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Semantic Web - an Evolution for the Future

Ivan Herman, W3C Head of Offices
Amsterdam, 3.10.2002

Slides of the presentation given at the XML Days in Amsterdam, on the 3rd of October 2002, at the Radisson SAS Hotel Amsterdam Airport.

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Table of Content:

  1. Title Page
  2. Few Words on W3C
  3. W3C Technologies
  4. Towards a Semantic Web
  5. What Is Needed?
  6. Problem Example
  7. Statements
  8. Resource Description Framework
  9. Simple RDF statements
  10. URI-s play a fundamental role
  11. Adding a new predicate
  12. RDF Containers
  13. RDF Containers (cont)
  14. Building more complex statements
  15. More on RDF
  16. Binding RDF to an XML Resource
  17. Use of RDF in our example
  18. RDF is not Enough...
  19. RDF Schemas
  20. Defining our main resources
  21. Defining Properties
  22. Towards a Web Ontology
  23. Ontologies
  24. W3C's Web Ontologies Language (OWL)
  25. Examples in OWL
  26. Examples in OWL (cont)
  27. Available Specifications
  28. Available Specifications (cont)
  29. Public Fora at W3C
  30. Some Tools
  31. SW Application Examples
  32. SW Application Examples (cont)
  33. SW Application Examples (cont)
  34. And What about Web Services?
  35. A Simple Matching Problem
  36. WS Oriented Search Engines
  37. Convergence at W3C
  38. Further Information