Semantic Web - Themes and Issues by Dan Brickley
Table of contents
- Semantic Web: Themes and Issues
- Introduction
- The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)
- How does W3C work?
- Introducing W3C's Semantic Web Activity
- What have we made? W3C RDF-based specifications
- Basic RDF/XML example
- Themes and Issues
- RDF Design: social and technical themes
- Characteristics of RDF/RDFS
- Theme: Descriptive not Prescriptive
- Descriptive...
- 5 RDF statements (in RDF/XML)
- What does this say? 5 Simple RDF statements
- Basic FOAF Example as a graph
- Mixing vocabularies
- Basic OWL
- Characteristics of OWL
- Themes and Issues: Application Areas Overlap
- RDFS at a glance (from MCF proposal 1997)
- RDF schema in natural language
- It seems so simple...
- Richer MCF example (on being "extension friendly")
- Semantic Web Community
- Overlaps and extensions
- Detail: RDFizing and Extending OGC's GML
- Simpler example: foaf:based_near
- FOAF Themes, Issues and Lessons
- Theme: Unique Identification
- Friend of a Friend (FOAF) extensions
- Example: FOAF + Images + Maps
- How did we do this?
- Querying RDF: SPARQL ("Sparkle")
- Detail: Yahoo! Maps
- Yahoo! Map
- Preview!: new SPARQL support in the Protege Editor
- Example: FOAFNaut 1
- Example: FOAFNaut 2
- Example: FOAF in Safari newsreader (MacOS X)
- Illustrating FOAF and SW themes
- Summary
- Thank you