Presented to a webinar hosted by Nuance Inc, under the title "The Semantic Web: What it is and Why you should care" on 2/29/2012.
This talk presents a fast overview of the Semantic Web and recent application deployment in the space.
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The Semantic Web: It's for Real
1. The Semantic Web: It’s for Real Jim Hendler Tetherless World Professor of Computer and Cognitive Science Assistant Dean of Information Technology and Web Science Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute http://www.cs.rpi.edu/~hendler @jahendler (twitter)
6. On the Web -- links are critical! <a href= URI> HTML Web page Any Web Resource <a href= “http://…”> RDF URI URI URI RDF is like the web!
7. Links in the data <mind:Person rdf:id= “Hendler”> <mind:title jobs:Professor> <jobs:placeOfWork http://www.cs.rpi.edu> </mind:Person> DOC1 Hendler DOC1 Mind:title Jobs:placeOfWork Web Page http://www… Professor Jobs: Mind: Jobs:
8. Asserting Links in the data <mind:Person rdf:id= “Hendler”> owl:sameAs <http://dbpedia.org/page/James_Hendler> DOC2 Hendler Mind:title Jobs:placeOfWork Web Page http://www… Jobs:Professor Dbpedia:Hendler Owl:sameAs Dbpedia:ComputerScientist Dbpedia:occupation
29. Semantic Search 2011-12 Integrated into search engines, continuing improvement
30. “ Web 3.0” Linked Data (RDF, SPARQL) Semantic Web (RDFS, owl) Web 3.0 Web 2.0 Web 3.0 extends current Web applications using Semantic Web, esp semantic and real-time search, technologies and graph-based, open data. Web (REST API)