why the semantic web hasnt failed - and how we shouldnt fix it
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Position statement given at the JISC Cetis Conference in Aston (Nov 2007). For more details check out the blog entry here: http://hoos-foos.blogspot.com/2007/11/why-semantic-web-hasnt-failed-and-how.htmlTRANSCRIPT
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Why the Semantic Web hasn't failed, and how we shouldn't fix it
David Millard
Learning Societies LabUniversity of Southampton
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The Infamous Layer Cake
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The Semantic Web will…
"...open up the knowledge and workings of humankind to meaningful analysis by software agents, providing a new class of tools by which we can live, work and learn together."
The Semantic Web , Tim Berners-Lee, James Hendler and Ora Lassila, Scientic American, May 2001
A Machine Readable Web
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Sound familiar?
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How do we do it?
Be a Semantic Extrovert!
Use Popular Ontologies (e.g. FOAF, SKOS)
Promote RDF REST Interfaces
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Why should you do it?
Capturing Folksonomies?
Mapping Ontologies Automatically?
Because Web Literacy is changing e-learning
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Building Brick by Yellow Brick
Build on existing practise
Demonstrate real advantage without real sacrifice