Introduction to the Semantic Web

Ivan Herman, W3C Head of Offices
Singapore, 3 October, 2003

Slides of the presentation held in Singapore, on the 3rd October, 2003 organized by ITSC (Information Technology Standards Committee.

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