Here's an interesting piece of fantasy from Ftrain. It's written from the perspective of a business writer in 2009 when Google has far surpassed any other Internet company in profitability thanks to introducing semantic web services into their search technology. Some of it is amusing fiction, but for the most part, the author makes a lot of sense and has some great, realistic ideas. His descriptions of Google's services and growth through the fictional years are fascinating.
The Semantic Web Research Group is a group of people working with Semantic Web technology inside the MIND LAB University of Maryland Institute for Advanced Computer Studies. A collection of papers and downloadable tools can be found here to help you gain understanding of the Semantic Web.
http://www.informationweek.com/story/IWK20021010S0016
This article gives background information on the idea of Semantic Web. It then goes into how companies could clearly benefit from such a Web. It then goes on to describe reasons why companies such as Microsoft are playing the "wait-and-see" game. Mainly because significant obstacles have yet to be overcome before anyone can see the true benefits of the Semantic Web.
http://logicerror.com/semanticWeb-webdev
http://www.aaronsw.com/2002/6171talk/talk (also found here)
This site discusses how the Semantic Web is built with URIs, HTTP and RDF. It also lists some Semantic Web Services available already. Semantic Web Services are far from the end of the Semantic Web vision however. There's quite a bit of interesting research and development still going on, and they are covered in three major issues in this page: Aggregation, Security and Logic.
This article discusses and gives real world examples on the uses of ontological hypertext. It also gives some nice example screenshots.
This article talks about the fact that XML and RDF are both integral to the functioning of the Semantic Web, yet they are both based on different models. This paper argues that the syntax and the semantics of the information must work together in order to achieve the most out of the Semantic Web.
Mark Pilgrim discusses another method for providing metadata: XFML hierarchical faceted metadata exchange standard
XFML Core is an open XML format for publishing and sharing hierarchical faceted metadata and indexing efforts.
XML.com has an article on how to create a semantic web site with technology that exists today. They also show the kinds of relationship that begin to appear as more semantics are defined and added to documents.
It doesn't look like something you would want to implement right now, but it will be interesting to see how much the process changes as technology evolves.
This is a paper written by someone from MIT that looks in depth at the how XML will provide more of a semantic web between different domains. Seems to be very analytical...but maybe only because it is 3:30 in the morning...still pertinent to our studies, however...
This article is written by Tim Berners-Lee and Eric Miller and it explains the current initiatives that the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is working on to further advance the Semantic Web.
http://www.ercim.org/publication/Ercim_News/enw51/berners-lee.html
Here's a page on the Semantic Web that I thought was pretty cool:
http://infomesh.net/2002/swhaiku/
Basically, it's an overview of the technologies that make up the Semantic Web, but written in the poetic form of Haiku. It's fun to read, and a little bit silly sometimes, but actually quite informative. Plus, I figure if you're working on one of the projects for class and start getting stressed out, you can read the page to yourself, enter into some sort of zen state, and then you'll be able to code again. :P
Here are some of the good websites that I found on the Semantic web.
http://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/Semantic.html (Really explain what is/What is not the semantic web)
http://infomesh.net/2001/swintro/ (A full overview of the semantic web - Entry level to the expert)
http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2000/11/01/semanticweb/ (Semantic web, really a future? )
http://infomesh.net/2001/swintro/#SWPower
The document on this site gives a very brief and good definition of semantic web and ontologies. It gives a detailed description of URI, RDF, shemata,inferences and DAML with examples. It clearly states the importance and power of semantic web in future. This is one of the useful document for beginner's and experts.
This is the section on the W3C's web site about the semantic web. It contains a plethora of links to current activities that are in development, various specifications (such as RDF and Web Ontology Language) and publications/presentations. A truly invaluable resource in my mind.
This paper basically explains the process of the migration of data-intensive web sites into the Semantic Web by converting database schemas into ontologies.
The paper starts out by giving a quick overview of the different layers that are included in the Semantic Web. It then goes into the mapping architecture and process. It displays a good picture that graphically shows the steps in the migration process. Next, it goes into more detailed rules and logic that is involved with the process.
This paper was created for the Conference on Information and Knowledge Management in 2002.
This site http://www.semanticweb.org/ has a list of different semantic web projects, which could be used as a reference on what semantic web developers do. This site also has good information on basic ideas of what semantic web is in the site map section.
My idea of what semantic web is that it is like a translating agent. A translating agent is responsible for translating and interpreting the meaning of the web's action between machines, people and triggger actions by users.
Willy
http://www.disobey.com/detergent/2002/sw123/
This is a good overview of RDF and has a good Recommended Reading list of other resources on the Semantic Web and RDF to get started with. The articles are listed in order based on readability / comprehension level. There are also more sites listed to go above and beyond the scope of the recommended reading.
Here is a link to a FAQ, tutorials, examples, and articles on the Resource Description Framework (RDF).
http://www.xml.org/xml/resources_focus_rdf.shtml
The W3C (http://www.w3.org/RDF/FAQ) describes RDF as:
RDF--the Resource Description Framework--is a framework for metadata; it provides interoperability between applications that exchange machine-understandable information on the Web. RDF emphasizes facilities to enable automated processing of Web resources and as such provides the basic building blocks for supporting the Semantic Web.