Web Standards that Link Scientists, Systems and Data
by Steve Bratt

Table of contents

• Web Standards to Link Scientists, Systems and Data
• Summary
• World Wide Web Consortium
• The Evolving Web
• Engineering the Foundation for Tomorrow's Web
• Today's Scientific Communities (1)
• Today's Scientific Communities (2)
• Today's Scientific Communities (3)
• Problem: Searching
• Problem: Sharing
• Issue: Aggregating
• Web Services and Semantic Web
• What is a Web Service?
• Web Services Stack
• The Process of Engaging a Service
• Problem: Silos and Babel
• Problem: Lack of Machine-Processable Semantics
• Analogy:
• What Computers "Understand"
• Toward Processable Search Semantics
• Ways to Enable Machine Processing
• What Is the Semantic Web?
• Semantic Web Stack
• Uniform Resource Identifiers (URI)
• Resource Description Framework (RDF)
• RDF Provides Flexibility to Represent Any Relationships
• Web Ontology Language (OWL)
• The Current Web
• The Semantic Web - An Enhancement of the Current Web
• Merging Semantic Web Data
• Tomorrow's Scientific Community?
• Possible Benefits to the Science and Society
• Sciences Communities: Questions
• Neighbors
• GEON
• Conclusions
• Acknowledgements
• END
• Resources Slides
• Other Web Services and Semantic Web References
• Some Web Services Tools
• Some Semantic Web Tools
• Web Service & Semantic Web Applications
• Lessons Learned
• Application: Amazon Web Services
• Application: Semantic Web for Earth and Environmental Terminology
• Tool: Haystack
• Application: Dublin Core
• Application: Web Content Syndication (RSS)
• Application: Data Integration with Organizations
• Application: Adobe XMP
• Use Case: Drug Discovery
• Rising Cost Per Drug-to-Market
• Pharmaceutical Process
• Basic Drug Research
• Pharma Application of Web Services and Semantic Web
• Drug Discovery Vision
• Earth Sciences Community: History