Semantic Web Introduction
Semantic Web Introduction
WWW
Static URI, HTML, HTTP
The vision
• The World Wide Web is a big and impressive
success story, both in terms
– of the amount of available information and
– the growth rate of human users
• It starts to penetrate most areas of our daily life
and business.
• This success is based on its simplicity
– Layered architecture:
• Applications are not forced to work with a language more
complex and expresive than required
• Applications that can only process a low level of complexity
are able to catch the aspects of the ontology
• Applications aware of higher level of complexity can still
understand a simpler ontology language
• OIL
Description Logic: Frame-based systems:
Formal Semantics & Epistemological Modeling
Reasoning support Primitives
OIL
Web languages:
XML- and RDF-based
syntax
DAML+OIL
• DAML+OIL
– Semantic markup language
• OWL-lite
– OWL sublanguage
– OWL-lite = RDFs + 0/1 cardinality
– Suites well to express light weight ontologies
– Limited expresiveness power
• Some fields require a full-fledged semantic web modeling language
Web Service
Bringing the computer
back as a device for
Web Services computation
Dynamic UDDI, WSDL, SOAP