1. www.boxuk.com © 2005 Box UK Ltd. All rights Reserved. Box UK, The Box UK logo, Amaxus and the Amaxus logo are trademarks of Box UK Ltd. Other company product and service names may be trademarks of others. INTERNET DEVELOPMENT & CONSULTANCY Daniel Zambonini, Box UK British Computer Society

2. www.boxuk.com Semantic Web – What is it?  Data about things,  That anyone can create,  For computer consumption “…technologies for enabling machines to make more sense of the Web… …making the Web more useful for humans” Edd Dumbill, xml.com “…technologies for enabling machines to make more sense of the Web… …making the Web more useful for humans” Edd Dumbill, xml.com “…moving from a Web of Documents to a Web of Data” Eric Miller, W3C “…moving from a Web of Documents to a Web of Data” Eric Miller, W3C “The bane of my existence is doing things that I know the computer could do for me” Dan Connolly, W3C “The bane of my existence is doing things that I know the computer could do for me” Dan Connolly, W3C

3. www.boxuk.com Semantic Web – Technologies – The X ML Factor

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6. www.boxuk.com Semantic Web – Technologies – Now for the Science Bit Unicode > XML > RDF > OWL > Logic >... The RDF Model, or “Statement”, or “Assertion”, or “Triple”, or...

7. www.boxuk.com Semantic Web – Technologies – Now for the Science Bit

8. www.boxuk.com Semantic Web – The Disagreement Argument People don't want to create metadata Metadata is often low quality and open to abuse It just won't work! Counter-Argument (condensed) They don't have to! Yes, but no! Look, it does!

9. www.boxuk.com Semantic Web - Today  100+ Major Semantic Web applications, covering: Catalogue/Thesaurus Management Data Integration Knowledge Management Annotation & Enrichment Discovery & Selection Media & Content Metadata Personal Information Management Semantic Indexing Knowledge Creation Syndication Mozilla EARL Annotea Edutella XMP MusicBrainz

10. www.boxuk.com Semantic Web - Today RDF Site A RDF Site C RDF Site B RDF Site D RDF Site E REST, not SOAP Portal

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17. www.boxuk.com Semantic Web - Tomorrow  Logic, Inference  Web of Trust

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19. www.boxuk.com Conclusion  Technology and Data exists  Simple fundamental technology  Some potential problems, main problem = misunderstood  Big possibilities, big opportunities “I do expect there to be a serious first mover advantage when it comes to being Semantic Web compatible in software products” Sir Tim Berners Lee, W3C