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Overview of the Semantic Web
Ralph R. SwickWorld Wide Web Consortium
(W3C)
11 January 2010
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A Web of Information The current Web represents information using
natural language graphics, multimedia, page layout
Humans can process this easily can deduce facts from partial information can create mental associations can deal with a variety of media
(see Web accessibility guidelines)
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Example: airline reservation Your automatic airline reservation
knows about your preferences builds up knowledge base using your past can combine the local knowledge with remote services:
airline preferences dietary requirements calendaring etc
Interactions with other Web - or local - information (M. Dertouzos: The Unfinished Revolution)
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Example: data(base) integration Databases are very different in structure, in content Many applications require managing several
databases after company mergers combination of administrative data for e-Government biochemical, genetic, pharmaceutical research etc.
Most of these data are accessible from the Web - though not necessarily public yet
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Example: “smart” portal Various types of “portals” are created (for a journal
on-line, for a specific area of knowledge, for specific communities, etc)
The portals may: integrate many data sources may have access to specialized domain knowledge
Goal is to provide a better local access, search on the integrated data, reveal new relationships among the data
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The 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 representations3. Make queries on the whole
queries that could not have been done on the individual data sets
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A simplified bookstore data (dataset “A”)ID Author Title Publisher YearISBN0-00-651409-X The Glass Palace 2000id_xyz id_qpr
ID Name Home Page
ID CityHarper Collins London
id_xyz Ghosh, Amitav http://www.amitavghosh.com
Publ. Nameid_qpr
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1st: expose your data as a set of relations
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Some notes on exposing the data Relations form a graph
the nodes refer to the “real” data or contain some literal how the graph is represented in machine is immaterial
for now Data export does not necessarily mean physical
conversion of the data relations can be generated on-the-fly at query time
via SQL “bridges” extracting from HTML pages extracting data from Excel sheets etc.
One can export part of the data
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Another bookstore data (dataset “F”)A B D E
1 ID Titre Original
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ISBN0 2020386682 A13 ISBN-0-00-651409-X
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6 ID Auteur7 ISBN-0-00-651409-X A12
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TraducteurLe Palais des miroirs
NomGhosh, AmitavBesse, Christianne
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2nd: expose the second set of data
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3rd: start merging these data
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3rd: … Resource Identity
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3rd: identical resources connect
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Start making queries… User of data “F” can now ask queries like:
“give me the title of the original” This information is not in the dataset “F”… …but can be retrieved by merging with dataset “A”!
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However, more can be achieved… a:author and f:auteur should be the same
relation But an automatic merge does not know that Add some extra information to the merged data:
a:author same as f:auteur both identify a “Person”
a term that a community may have already defined: a “Person” is uniquely identified by his/her name and, (e.g.),
Web homepage
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3rd revisited: use the extra knowledge
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Permitting richer queries User of dataset “F” can now query:
“give me the home page of the original’s ‘auteur’” The information is not in datasets “F” or “A”… …but was made available by:
merging datasets “A” and datasets “F” adding three extra statements as an extra “glue”
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Merge with Wikipedia data
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What did we accomplish? Combined different datasets that
are somewhere on the web are of different formats (mysql, excel sheet, XHTML,
etc) have different names for relations
We could combine the data because some URIs were identical (the ISBN in this case)
We could add some additional information, using common terminologies that a community has produced
Permitting new relations to be found and retrieved
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Many Real Examples RPI Data-gov wiki
http://data-gov.tw.rpi.edu/wiki/The_Data-gov_Wiki
Contributed Case Studies and Use Caseshttp://www.w3.org/2001/sw/sweo/public/UseCases/
Collection of more examples
Semantic Web Challenge
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Please make your raw data available(internally)
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Acknowledgements
These slides are available on:http://www.w3.org/2010/Talks/0111-semweb-rrs
Thanks to Ivan Herman,W3C Semantic Web Activity Lead
And the Semantic Web communityhttp://www.w3.org/2001/sw/http://www.w3.org/standards/semanticweb/
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Future Work / Research Provenance
Usage policy tagging
Accountable Systems