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The Semantic Web

The Semantic Web. Having Computers understand as humans do. Tim Berners-Lee. Timothy John Berners-Lee Known As ‘ TimBL ’ inventor of the www. Director of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Coined the term ‘ Semantic Web ’. The Semantic Web.

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The Semantic Web

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  1. The Semantic Web Having Computers understand as humans do

  2. Tim Berners-Lee • Timothy John Berners-Lee • Known As ‘TimBL’ • inventor of the www. • Director of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) • Coined the term ‘Semantic Web’

  3. The Semantic Web • Collaborative movement Led by the world wide web consortium. • Defines the Semantic Web as "a web of data that can be processed directly and indirectly by machines."

  4. What does the word ‘Semantics’ mean?

  5. ‘Semantics’ vs. ‘Syntax’ ‘I Love Information Technology!’ ‘I <3 Information Technology!’

  6. The Internet & Communication • Humans use voice in real life • Computers?

  7. How do we Share Meaning Across the Globe? • The Term “Bank”

  8. The Web • Huge Document & Retrieval System. • Syntax : HTML.

  9. Active vs. Passive= Semantics vs. Syntax

  10. Documents vs. Things

  11. Possibilities

  12. Structured Data • Existing Technologies: - Microformats - RDFA

  13. Microformats

  14. The New Semantic Technology

  15. Microformats

  16. RDF • Resource Description Framework • Expressed by three triples, Subject- predicate- objects statements

  17. RDFa • RDFa is a way of expressing RDF triples inside XHTML pages using span tags.

  18. Social Networks

  19. Time’s Up! • Dana Abu Hudra • http://wiki.creativecommons.org/RDFa • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhgUDGtT2EM&feature=related • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=off08As3siM&feature=fvwrel • http://infomesh.net/2001/swintro/ • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic_Web • https://getsatisfaction.com/microformats/topics/what_is_microformats

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