... check whether they can interact with each other, and then compose them Second, theWeb service space is highly dynamic New services are expected to avail themselves on theWeb This requires the ability ... Taxonomy forSemanticWeb Interactions In the first part of this section, we identify the different layers that make up an interaction framework on theSemanticWeb We then define the dimensions for ... roles and individuals DAML+ OIL [99]: DAML+ OIL is the result of a merger between DAMLONT, a language developed as part of the US DARPA Agent Markup Language (DAML) and OIL (the Ontology Inference...
... ix Ontologies and theSemanticWeb Chapter at a Glance Ontology Defined Ontologies fortheWebOntology Types Building Ontologies WebOntology Language, OWL Other WebOntology Efforts Knowledge ... of the protocol The main method is to access resources: GET is the core request for information in theWeb It takes the form of HTTP header specifying the desired information object as either ... THESEMANTICWEB CRAFTING INFRASTRUCTURE FOR AGENCY Bo Leuf Technology Analyst, Sweden THESEMANTICWEBTHESEMANTICWEB CRAFTING INFRASTRUCTURE FOR AGENCY Bo Leuf Technology...
... Sweb (Semantic Web, SW) is a common abbreviation used to qualify technologies associated with theSemanticWeb effort SWS (Semantic Web Service) is to Web Service what theSemanticWeb is to the ... contexts SemanticWeb (sweb) is the proper name forthe ‘third-generation’ Web effort of embedding meaning (semantics) in Web functionality Service discovery is the term forthe process of locating ... 322 TheSemanticWeb Who Controls It? A distributed and partially autonomous system like the proposed Semantic Web, and like theWeb before it, is ultimately controlled by the people who make themselves...
... ix Ontologies and theSemanticWeb Chapter at a Glance Ontology Defined Ontologies fortheWebOntology Types Building Ontologies WebOntology Language, OWL Other WebOntology Efforts Knowledge ... of the protocol The main method is to access resources: GET is the core request for information in theWeb It takes the form of HTTP header specifying the desired information object as either ... THESEMANTICWEB CRAFTING INFRASTRUCTURE FOR AGENCY Bo Leuf Technology Analyst, Sweden THESEMANTICWEBTHESEMANTICWEB CRAFTING INFRASTRUCTURE FOR AGENCY Bo Leuf Technology...
... precisely theWeb itself – theSemanticWeb is in this view Defining theSemanticWeb 35 just another expression of new innate functionality of the same magnitude The capabilities of the whole are therefore ... what the ‘killer application’ of theSemanticWeb would be, the clued-in proponents reply: TheSemanticWeb itself! They justify this reply by noting that the killer application of the current Web ... Hendler, Ora Lassila 34 TheSemanticWeb A reformulated version appears later to guide the formal W3C ‘initiative’: The goal of theSemanticWeb initiative is as broad as that of the Web: to create a...
... manages information on theWeb Creating and Using Content examines the way theSemanticWeb affects the different functional aspects of creating and publishing on theWeb Authoring outlines the ... fragment theWeb into incompatible WS segments, simply due to the massive dominance by MS in the desktop market On the other, there has been the fear that the new Web would drift into the embrace-and-extend ... resolution 80 TheSemanticWeb A mitigating circumstance is the recently adopted policy of the W3C to recommend particular technologies fortheWeb only if they are freely offered forthe public...
... reason forthe development of stricter, yet more flexible, markup languagesfortheWeb Currently in deployment, and supported by the newer Web clients, the best-known of these is 120 TheSemanticWeb ... capable of semantic expression Markup And the Tag did impart structure upon the face of theWeb Genesis, theWeb version Markup languages represent the technology for encoding metadata into the content ... URL-based identity model Therefore, theSemanticWeb instead presumes that the location-agnostic URI is the normal access identity for resources – and for that matter forthe individual Distributed...
... concept TheSemantic Web: Crafting Infrastructure for Agency Bo Leuf # 2006 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd 156 TheSemanticWeb Ontologies fortheWeb describes the aspects specific to theWebOntology ... infrastructure Efforts to incorporate theontology descriptions led to the expanded DAML- ONT releases of the language The immediate precursor to OWL was DAML OIL, a semantic markup language forWeb resources ... from theWeb by sampling, conversion, and indexing methods In theSemantic Web, on the other hand, queries should primarily trigger resource discovery and seek information directly from the Web...
... and takes the initiative for many of the relevant efforts The W3C was the first context in which theSemanticWeb concept was promoted Historically, theSemanticWeb is the successor to the W3C ... to form the basis fortheSemantic Web, just as earlier W3C-developed components formed theWebThe aim was to facilitate the deployment and future standards work associated with theSemanticWeb ... www.semanticweb.org) The site collects and lists different technology approaches, explains them, and functions as a forum for people interested in theSemantic Web, under the motto ‘together...
... 208 TheSemanticWeb A basic argument in these cases is that the Copyright Act protects the right of copyright owners to display their work as they wish, without alteration by another Therefore, ... query page, theWeb front-end forthe database, showing some of the relational dimensions that can be explored 240 TheSemanticWeb Theory The initial idea was to provide an aid for use in searching ... other unfortunate styling The situation is similar to that for other interesting enhancements to the Web, where the standards and technology may exist, and the prototype applications show the...
... what theSemanticWeb is waiting forFor most enterprise software folks, theSemanticWeb is about data integration For example, getting information from the stock control available in the catalog, ... of the aspects close to people’s lives Success on theWeb explores the success stories of theWeb today and shows that these can easily be enhanced in useful ways in the SW TheSemantic Web: ... catalog, in a web across the company In these cases, the information already exists in machine-readable but not semanticWeb form; in databases or XML, but not in RDF TheSemanticWeb is about...
... and www .daml. org/ontologies/129, and other Ontolingua projects at KSL covered in Chapter 9) The WFB ontology can be browsed on theOntology Server The aim fortheontology is to represent the facts ... selling support and 292 TheSemanticWeb customizing services to complement the free releases on theWebForthe most part, these open strategies seem to work well Even in the contentious commercial ... use it The Case fortheSemanticWeb sets out the social aspects that can benefit from sweb technology This chapter ends the narrative and presentational text: the appendices and some other support...
... existing Web information without ever leaving their familiar web browser Through the use of Piggy Bank, as they consume Web information, they automatically produce SemanticWeb information Through Semantic ... page They can use the Back and Forward buttons of their web browsers to traverse their navigation histories, just like they can while browsing theWeb Note that we have only criticized the packaging ... the contemporary web browser that lets Web users extract individual information items from within web pages and save them in SemanticWeb format (RDF [20]), replete with metadata Piggy Bank then...
... Fit into theSemantic Web? How Do Web Services Fit into theSemantic Web? What’s after Web Services? What Do the Skeptics Say about theSemantic Web? Why the Skeptics Are Wrong! Summary The Business ... capabilities afforded by SemanticWeb technologies How Does XML Fit into theSemantic Web? XML is the syntactic foundation layer of theSemanticWeb All other technologies providing features fortheSemantic ... What Is theSemantic Web? Tim Berners-Lee has a two-part vision forthe future of theWebThe first part is to make theWeb a more collaborative medium The second part is to make theWeb understandable,...
... RDFS We then discuss in more detail OIL and DAML1 OIL, the first proposals forlanguages at theontology layer of thesemantic pyramid ForOIL (and to some extent DAML1 OIL) we discuss the general ... powering theSemanticWebThe power of thesemantic web, therefore, comes from the coupling of the knowledge technologies developed by the AI world with the power grid being developed by theWeb developers ... of OIL and DAML1 OIL may well not be the actual usage these languages get, but rather the fact that they form the basis of new languages, which will get widespread usage Towards theSemantic Web: ...
... 15.1.1 The Concept of theSemanticWeb 321 15.1.2 The Full Technical Foundation fortheSemanticWeb 322 15.1.3 Real-World Examples and Applications of theSemanticWeb 322 15.1.4 From the ... in the traditional Web that stops us from doing more on theWebThe answer to this question intuitively introduces the need for adding semantics to the Web, which leads to the concept of theSemantic ... developed around the concept of theSemanticWeb However, this also presents a steep learning curve for anyone who is new to the world of theSemanticWeb Indeed, understanding theSemanticWeb takes...
... DESIGNING FORTHE SOCIAL WEB As the power and reach of theweb became evident in the last part of the 1990s, designers started to refashion bulletin board systems forthe web, taking advantage of the ... information, as well as forms for inputting information, turned web sites into web applications They were no longer read-only They were read/write Thus two-way conversation emerged on the web, ... answering the question: What are the actions people perform on the objects, and which are important enough to support in theweb application? 23 24 DESIGNING FORTHE SOCIAL WEB Focus on the Primary...
... her husband made the decision to replace their aging TV with one of the HD TVs they heard about 29 30 DESIGNING FORTHE SOCIAL WEBThe ethnographer might ask who Betsy heard about the TV from It ... most important features, and keep the others on the back burner until they are truly necessary 39 40 DESIGNING FORTHE SOCIAL WEB There is a great story about the building of iTunes that applies ... These markets want to talk, just as they did forthe thousands of years that passed before market became a verb with us as its object.” — The Cluetrain Manifesto 42 DESIGNING FORTHE SOCIAL WEB...
... notice the changes, and if the good ones stick, they’ll appreciate your ongoing efforts to improve The best teams not only design the changes, but design the process for introducing the change They ... out for: Ready to Go This is the role most people design for This is the role we hope for These people are ready to start using your application The key to designing for them is to get out of their ... was in the middle of a profound change brought about by theweb People were able to band together and talk to each other, whether or not the company was listening And in their confederacy, they...