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Understanding the Semantic Web

The document introduces the semantic web, which aims to make information on the web understandable by machines through adding semantics and structure to the data. It discusses how the semantic web allows data to be shared and reused across applications through collaborative standards. The key components that enable this include using URIs to identify things, modeling data and knowledge through ontologies and RDF, and publishing linked open data through following basic principles like using HTTP URIs and including links between related resources. The semantic web makes automated processing and integration of data on the web possible through machine-understandable semantics.

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Understanding the Semantic Web

The document introduces the semantic web, which aims to make information on the web understandable by machines through adding semantics and structure to the data. It discusses how the semantic web allows data to be shared and reused across applications through collaborative standards. The key components that enable this include using URIs to identify things, modeling data and knowledge through ontologies and RDF, and publishing linked open data through following basic principles like using HTTP URIs and including links between related resources. The semantic web makes automated processing and integration of data on the web possible through machine-understandable semantics.

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Introduction to the Semantic Web

(Knowledge sharing on the Web)


Aman Shakya

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Information Sharing
Information Sharing
◦ Information publishing
◦ Understandable semantics
◦ Information dissemination
Shared information
◦ Better utilization  Increased value
Shared information put together
◦ Valuable knowledge

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WWW - World Wide Web page
URL: [Link]

?
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Limitations and Needs
Data processing and automation
◦ Only humans understand web pages

Interoperability
◦ Sharing data across
different applications

Integration
◦ Combining data from
different applications
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Semantic Web
Sir Tim Berners-Lee (inventor of the WWW)
“.. an extension of the current web in which
information is given well-defined meaning, better
enabling computers and people to work in
cooperation..” Scientific American (2001)

• Allows data to be shared and reused


across application, enterprise, and
community boundaries

• Collaborative effort led by W3C with


participation from a large number of
researchers and industrial partners.
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The Semantic Web
1. Web of Structured Data

2. Machine understandable semantics


Semantics = Meaning

3. Data modeling and Knowledge representation

4. Interoperable
data standards

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Web of Documents (WWW)
hyperlinks

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Web of Data (GGG)
GiantGlobal Graph
Meaningful data links

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URI – Uniform Resource Identifier
URI: [Link]

Yangtze Located in
URI: [Link]

Is a
China
Has length

River Has capital

6300 km
Beijing

URI: [Link]

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RDF - Resource Description Format
Predicate
Subject Object

Triples (subject, predicate, object)


or (resource, property, value)

Graph data model

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Linked Data
Publishing and interlinking structured data on
the Semantic Web

4 basic principles of Linked Data:


1. Use URIs to identify things.
2. Use HTTP URIs so that we can locate and look up
(dereference) these things.
3. Provide useful information when its URI is
dereferenced.
4. Include links to related URIs to improve
information discovery on the Web. 11
Linked Open Data Sources on the Web
2010

Linking Open Data cloud diagram, by Richard Cyganiak and Anja Jentzsch. [Link] 12
Beautiful Applications over Raw Data

Source: Berners-Lee, TED 2009 13


Semantic Web (explained)
Data Modeling and Knowledge
Representation
◦ Machine understandable Semantics

Ontology
◦ modeling of the concepts and relationships that
exist in the area/domain of interest

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Knowledge Representation
Reasoning / Inference becomes possible
Artificial Intelligence

Agentsunderstand Semantic Web data


Automated information processing

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Semantic Web Layers Cake

The Semantic Web Cake

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Interoperable Semantic Standards
Consensus and Common formats
Standard Vocabulary
Enables Interoperability and Data Integration

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Semantic Web Application Areas
Complex knowledge management and
representation
Semantic Annotation
Improved information retrieval
Inference/reasoning over data on the Web
Data integration
Interoperability
Linked open data applications

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Thank you!

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