1. Building Semantic Web Based Applications with Watson Mathieu d’Aquin and many other people The Knowledge Media Institute, The Open University [email_address]

2. The Semantic Web is growing http://esw.w3.org/topic/SweoIG/TaskForces/CommunityProjects/LinkingOpenData

3. Next Generation Semantic Web Applications Dynamically retrieving, exploiting and combining relevant semantic resources from the SW, at large Need for a Gateway to the Semantic Web

4. Next Generation Semantic Web Applications

5. Architecture

6. Collection

10. Query Result from Yahoo! Term suggestions Add/Replace Screenshot of wahoo (REST based)

16. Thank you! Watson: http://watson.kmi.open.ac.uk Blog: http://watson.kmi.open.ac.uk/blog Mailing list: [email_address] Contact: [email_address]

17. The Semantic Web is growing… Lee, J., Goodwin, R. (2004) The Semantic Webscape: a View of the Semantic Web. IBM Research Report .

18. Ontologies Metadata <rdf:RDF> <channel rdf:about=“http://watson.kmi.open.ac.uk/blog”> <title>Elementaries - The Watson Blog</title> <link>http://watson.kmi.open.ac.uk:8080/blog/</link> <description> &quot;Oh dear! Where the Semantic Web is going to go now?&quot; -- imaginary user 23 </description> <language>en</language> <copyright>Watson team</copyright> <lastBuildDate>Thu, 01 Mar 2007 13:49:52 GMT</lastBuildDate> <generator>Pebble (http://pebble.sourceforge.net)</generator> <docs>http://backend.userland.com/rss</docs> … <rdf:RDF> <foaf:Image rdf:about='http://static.flickr.com/132/400582453_e1e1f8602c.jpg'> <dc:title>Zen wisteria</dc:title> <dc:description></dc:description> <foaf:page rdf:resource='http://www.flickr.com/photos/xcv/400582453/'/> <foaf:topic rdf:resource='http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/vittelgarden/'/> <foaf:topic rdf:resource='http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/wisteria/'/> <dc:creator> <foaf:Person><foaf:name>Mathieu d'Aquin</foaf:name> … <rdf:RDF> <owl:Ontology rdf:about=&quot;&quot;> <owl:imports rdf:resource=&quot;http://usefulinc.com/ns/doap#&quot;/> </owl:Ontology> <j.1:Organization rdf:ID=&quot;KMi&quot;> <rdfs:comment rdf:datatype=&quot;http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string&quot; >The Knoledge Media Institute of the Open University, Milton Keynes UK</rdfs:comment> </j.1:Organization> <j.1:Document rdf:ID=&quot;KMiWebSite&quot;> … DOAP FOAF DC RSS TAP WORDNET NCI Galen Music … … … … … … UoD