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Semantic Web: Misikir Matebie

The document discusses (1) what the semantic web is, (2) why we need the semantic web, and (3) the components that make up the semantic web. The semantic web allows machines to process and understand information on the web to a degree that currently only humans can. It enables data from different sources to be combined and queried in ways that are not currently possible. Key components that enable the semantic web include RDF, SPARQL, and OWL.

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Semantic Web: Misikir Matebie

The document discusses (1) what the semantic web is, (2) why we need the semantic web, and (3) the components that make up the semantic web. The semantic web allows machines to process and understand information on the web to a degree that currently only humans can. It enables data from different sources to be combined and queried in ways that are not currently possible. Key components that enable the semantic web include RDF, SPARQL, and OWL.

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Semantic Web

Misikir Matebie
Agenda

1.What is semantic web?

2.Why we need semantic web?

3.Semantic web components

5.Semantic web Technology market forecast


1.What is the Semantic Web?
Tim Berners-Lee has a two-part vision for the future of the Web
•make the Web a more collaborative medium.
•make the Web understandable, and thus processable, by
machines.
toward a semantic web
The current Web represents information using
•natural language (English, Hungarian, Chinese,…)
•graphics, multimedia, etc
Humans can process this easily
•can deduce facts from partial information
•can create mental associations
•are used to various sensory information
Tasks often require to combine data on the Web
• hotel and travel information may come from different sites
• searches in different digital libraries
• combination of administrative data for e-Government,etc
Most of these data are accessible from the Web
• humans combine these information easily
• even if different terminologies are used!

But can we do this processing Semantic


through machines??? YES = web

Therefore semantic web is a web of data that can be processed directly


or indirectly by machines.-Tim Berners-Lee
2. Why Do We Need the Semantic Web?
 Information Overload: tedious to do everything (for
humans
 systems where all the components are hardwired to
only work together

 Poor content aggregation like financial information,


portals,comparison shopping,and content mining,etc

 Lots of applications require managing several


databases

...And Many
3.Semantic web components
The web is already semantic (sort of) but long way to go
0Adapted from Tim Berners Lee’s description of the Semantic Web

S P Logic, Proof and Trust


E R
C I Rules/Query
U V Other
R A RDF, Ontologies Services
I C
T Y
Y XML, XML Schemas

URI, UNICODE

0 Some Challenges: Interoperability between Layers; Security and Privacy


cut across all layers; Integration of Services; Composability

Layered Architecture for Dependable semantic Web


What is the job?
The Semantic Web technologies provides mechanisms to
make such integration possible!
 RDF(resource description framework)
 SPARQL(query language for RDF data)
 OWL(Web ontology language)
Rough structure of data integration
1. Map the various data onto an abstract data representation
make the data independent of its internal representation…
2. Merge the resulting representations
3. Start making queries on the whole!
queries that could not have been done on the individual data
sets
• Most of the data on the Web are stored in relational
databases
• “RDFying” them is not possible
• relational databases are here to stay…
• “Bridges” are being defined:
• RDB tables are “mapped” to RDF graphs, possibly on
the fly
• different mapping approaches are being used
Modal Logic
strong semantics
First Order Logic
Logical Theory
Is Disjoint Subclass of
Description Logic
with transitivity property
DAML+OIL, OWL
UML
Conceptual Model
Is Subclass of
RDF/S Semantic Interoperability
XTM
Extended ER
Thesaurus Has Narrower Meaning Than
ER
DB Schemas, XML Schema Structural Interoperability

Taxonomy Is Sub-Classification of
Relational
Model, XML Syntactic interoperability
inIinnteroperability
10
weak semantics
Web of
Knowledge
Proof, Logic and
Ontology Languages
(e.g., DAML+OIL) Shared terms/terminology
Machine-Machine 2010
communication
Resource Description Framework (RDF)
eXtensible Markup Language (XML)
Self-Describing Documents 2000
HyperText Markup Language
(HTML)
HyperText Transfer Protocol
Formatted Documents
Foundation of the Current Web 1990
(HTTP)
4.Semantic technology Market forecast
http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/sweo/public/Use
Cases/BBC/

Thanks for attention!!

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