Semantic Web: an introduction

Kristof Van Tomme

PRONOVIX.com

What is the Semantic Web?

Web 3.0 ?

Linked Data

http://www4.wiwiss.fu-berlin.de/bizer/pub/lod-datasets_2009-03-05.html

Robot Food

RDF

Resource Description Framework

Subject → Predicate → Object

RDFa

RDFa = XHTML

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RDFa

URI

URI = unique ID

OWL

Dictionary

SPARQL

Query

What about Drupal?

Drupal giveth

Drupal 7 →

RDFa in core

300.000+ websites...

Drupal taketh

Contrib ~60 “RDF”

Some examples

http://drupal.org/project/rdf

http://drupal.org/project/semantic_markup_editor

http://drupal.org/project/evoc

http://drupal.org/project/sparql

http://drupal.org/project/neologism

http://drupal.org/project/opencalais

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8405334.stm

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3999

Kristof Van Tomme

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