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
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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