1. Making Semantic Web Real: Some Building Blocks Rakesh Agrawal IBM Almaden Research Center

2. Axioms  Semantic web MUST happen  Irrespective of its final form, it will need some basic building blocks  Building blocks must be fast and scale

3. Goals  Present some of the building blocks  Encourage the semantic web community to investigate the database/data mining literature for implementation ideas

4. Outline  Storage engine for semantic web  Taxonomy merging  Inferencing acclerator  Knowledge compilation from the web