Introduction to the Semantic Web

Ivan Herman, W3C Head of Offices
Brussels, 24 June, 2003

Slides of the presentation held in Brussels, Belgium, on the 24 June, 2003 at the W3C Semantic Tour event, organized by the W3C Benelux Office, within the framework of the IST-2000-28767 Question-How project.

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  1. [Title Page]
  2. Towards a Semantic Web
  3. What Is Needed?
  4. Problem Example
  5. Statements
  6. Resource Description Framework
  7. Simple RDF statements
  8. URI-s Play a Fundamental Role
  9. Adding a new predicate
  10. More on RDF
  11. Merge shown as graphs
  12. Binding RDF to an XML Resource
  13. Use of RDF in our example
  14. RDF or XML?
  15. RDF is not Enough...
  16. Possible Issues to Handle
  17. Ontologies
  18. W3C's Ontology Language (OWL)
  19. OWL is also RDF
  20. An Example in OWL
  21. Deduction Possibilities
  22. OWL Examples: Classes
  23. OWL Examples: Properties
  24. Property Characterizations
  25. Miscellaneous possibilities
  26. However: Ontologies are Hard!
  27. Semantic Web Stack
  28. Available Specifications: Primers
  29. Available Specifications: RDF
  30. Available Specifications: Ontology
  31. Public Fora at W3C
  32. Some Tools
  33. SW Application Examples
  34. SW Application Examples (cont)
  35. SW Application Examples (cont)
  36. Further Information