The Semantic Web and Why You Should Care.
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subtitle: "This Is The Most Informal Talk You Will Ever Hear About a Formal Topic" Originally presented at the IEEE/ACM 2009 Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, Workshop On Integrating Digital Library Content with Computational Tools and Services, on 19 June 2009. co-author: http://www.slideshare.net/krpage
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The Semantic Web and Why You Should Care.
- 2. This Is The Most Informal Talk You Will Ever Hear About a Formal Topic Ben Fields - Goldsmiths University of London Kevin Page - University of Southampton
- 3. or The Semantic Web and why you should care
- 4. Semantic Web
- 5. Semantic Web
- 6. Semantic
- 7. meaning
- 9. machine readable meaning
- 10. self-describing machine readable meaning
- 11. Why RDF? self-describing machine readable meaning
- 12. What is RDF?
- 13. RDF is a model predicate subject object
- 14. Is that it?
- 15. Yes, that’s it. predicate subject object
- 16. The model can be serialized as XML
- 17. The model can be serialized as XML It’s pig ugly
- 18. The model can be serialized as XML It’s pig ugly That’s fine. Machines eat ugly for breakfast
- 19. Honestly, don’t worry RDF != RDF/XML
- 20. Our model can describe models
- 21. Specific Models
- 22. Specific Models About stuff
- 23. Specific Models About Things
- 24. Specific Models About Things Let’s call these ontologies
- 25. This Is The Most Informal Talk You Will Ever Hear About a Formal Topic Ben Fields - Goldsmiths University of London Kevin Page - University of Southampton
- 27. Ontologies are described in OWL
- 28. Ontologies are described in OWL OWL is modeled in RDF
- 29. RDF is machine readable
- 30. RDF is machine readable So ontologies can understood by machines
- 31. This Is The Most Informal Talk You Will Ever Hear About a Formal Topic Ben Fields - Goldsmiths University of London Kevin Page - University of Southampton
- 32. Even if that’s just to assert that everything is a Thing
- 33. This Is The Most Informal Talk You Will Ever Hear About a Formal Topic Ben Fields - Goldsmiths University of London Kevin Page - University of Southampton
- 34. Semantic Web
- 35. Semantic Web
- 36. Web
- 37. The Web is simply the biggest, most successful, most useable, distributed systems architecture ever.
- 38. “The Web is simply the biggest, most successful, most useable, distributed systems architecture ever.” David De Roure
- 39. Linking
- 40. Linking Scale
- 41. The mechanism for Linking enables the Web to Scale
- 42. Do people scale?
- 43. Do people scale? Do people scale to the size of the Web?
- 44. machine readable meaning
- 45. Why does the Web scale?
- 46. REST
- 47. A Resource Oriented Architecture
- 48. A Resource Oriented Architecture with a simple protocol to return representations of those resources
- 49. HTTP returns those representations
- 50. HTTP returns those representations When it talks to us, it returns HTML
- 51. The resources are simply addressable objects
- 52. so ur ce Re What is RDF? e wor k nFram ri p t io De sc
- 53. About those addressable Things...
- 54. We address them using URIs
- 56. http://www.bbc.co.uk/music/artists/668fd73c-bf54-4310-a139-305517f05311 This is the Willie Nelson.
- 57. http://www.bbc.co.uk/music/artists/668fd73c-bf54-4310-a139-305517f05311 This is the Willie Nelson. Honest.
- 58. Everything in RDF is a resource
- 59. Everything in RDF is a URI
- 60. ot q u i te n Yes, that’s ^it. predicate subject object I U R I I U R U R
- 61. Why is this important to second generation digital libraries?
- 62. Principally libraries are about sharing
- 63. Principally libraries are about sharing Things.
- 64. Do people scale?
- 65. Do people scale? Do people scale to the size of the Web?
- 66. machine readable meaning
- 68. Demo?
- 69. Questions?