Scribd
Upload
56 views3 pages

Semantic Web1

The document discusses the Semantic Web, which aims to describe web resources in a way that computers can understand. It allows computers to search, discover, and process information from the web. The Semantic Web uses the Resource Description Framework (RDF) to describe web resources with metadata so that intelligent applications can combine information from different sources and present it to users meaningfully. While the Semantic Web could revolutionize scientific publishing and data sharing, its growth has been limited by the technical learning curve of RDF for traditional developers.

Uploaded by

Rahul Kshirsagar
Copyright
© Attribution Non-Commercial (BY-NC)
We take content rights seriously. If you suspect this is your content, claim it here.
Available Formats
Download as DOCX, PDF, TXT or read online on Scribd
56 views3 pages

Semantic Web1

The document discusses the Semantic Web, which aims to describe web resources in a way that computers can understand. It allows computers to search, discover, and process information from the web. The Semantic Web uses the Resource Description Framework (RDF) to describe web resources with metadata so that intelligent applications can combine information from different sources and present it to users meaningfully. While the Semantic Web could revolutionize scientific publishing and data sharing, its growth has been limited by the technical learning curve of RDF for traditional developers.

Uploaded by

Rahul Kshirsagar
Copyright
© Attribution Non-Commercial (BY-NC)
We take content rights seriously. If you suspect this is your content, claim it here.
Available Formats
Download as DOCX, PDF, TXT or read online on Scribd
You are on page 1/ 3

Semantic Web

What is the Semantic Web?

• The Semantic Web is a web that is able to describe things in a way that
computers can understand.

– The Beatles was a popular band from Liverpool.

– John Lennon was a member of the Beatles.

– "Hey Jude" was recorded by the Beatles.

• Sentences like the ones above can be understood by people. But how
can they be understood by computers?

• Statements are built with syntax rules. The syntax of a language defines
the rules for building the language statements. But how can syntax
become semantic?

• This is what the Semantic Web is all about. Describing things in a way
that computers applications can understand it.

• The Semantic Web is not about links between web pages.

• The Semantic Web describes the relationships between things (like A is


a part of B and Y is a member of  Z) and the properties of things (like
size, weight, age, and price)

• The Semantic Web is an evolving development of the World Wide Web


in which the meaning (semantics) of information and services on the
web is defined, making it possible for the web to understand and satisfy
the requests of people and machines to use the web content.

• It derives from World Wide Web Consortium director Sir Tim Berners-
Lee's vision of the Web as a universal medium for data, information, and
knowledge exchange.
Purpose

• Humans are capable of using the Web to carry out tasks such as finding
the Finnish word for "monkey", reserving a library book, and searching
for a low price for a DVD. However, a computer cannot accomplish the
same tasks without human direction because web pages are designed to
be read by people, not machines. The semantic web is a vision of
information that is understandable by computers, so that they can
perform more of the tedious work involved in finding, sharing, and
combining information on the web.

• In particular, the semantic web is expected to revolutionize scientific


publishing, such as real-time publishing and sharing of experimental data
on the Internet.

The Resource Description Framework

• The RDF (Resource Description Framework) is a language for describing


information and resources on the web.

• Putting information into RDF files, makes it possible for computer


programs ("web spiders") to search, discover, pick up, collect, analyze
and process information from the web.

• The Semantic Web uses RDF to describe web resources.

How can it be used?

• If information about music, cars, tickets, etc. were stored in RDF files,
intelligent web applications could collect information from many
different sources, combine information, and present it to users in a
meaningful way.

• Information like this:

– Car prices from different resellers

– Information about medicines

– Plane schedules

– Spare parts for the industry


– Information about books (price, pages, editor, year)

– Dates of events

– Computer updates

Can it be understood?

• The Semantic Web is not a very fast growing technology.

• One of the reasons for that is the learning curve. RDF was developed by
people with academic background in logic and artificial intelligence. For
traditional developers it is not very easy to understand.

• One fast growing language for building semantic web applications is RSS.

Simple semantic web application.

For More Informtion pls Follow this link:

http://rtmnuittrends.blogspot.com/2011/02/semantic-web.html

Thanks for Visiting.

You might also like