The Semantic Web and Challenges
by Tim Berners-Lee

Table of contents

• The Semantic Web and Research Challenges
• The Semantic Web
• 1. What is is/How to explain it
• Everything has a URI
• The relational database
• The element of the Semantic Web
• Semantic web includes tables,...
• ...trees
• ... everything
• RDF data...
• ...merges just like that.
• RDF: Semantic links - "Joining the Web"
• Enterprise Application Integration problem
• RDF: Application Integration hub
• 3. More expressive power
• RDF data layer -goals and status
• RDF Schema layer -technology
• RDF Schema layer - goals and status
• Ontology layer - technology
• Ontology layer - goals and status
• Rules Layer - technology
• Rules layer - Goals and status
• Logic framework - goals and status
• Web of Trust: need
• Web of Trust - goals and status
• Conclusion of part 1
• 2. Some things we have been doing at MIT LCS
• Application Integration: Native RDF
• Application Integration: Import
• Application integration: Export
• Application integration: Case study: Roadmap
• Application integration: Case Study: Trip
• Case study - take away
• Web of Trust - simplified example
• Conclusion to part 2
• 3. Challenges
• The Semantic Web Wave
• Semantic Web bus - and above
• What makes it a semantic web project?
• Challenges - Computer Science
• User interface: graphs to Graphics
• Logic
• Engineering choices
• Conclusion of part 3
• Thank You
• More information
• Slides not used
• Where W3C standards are
• Web Services and Semantic Web
• 1. Background and Principles
• The Semantic Web
• Goal: building machinery
• Semantic Web Principles
• Do NOT wait for
• Short to medium term for s/w s/w developers