[Web4lib] How do I create a semantic web site?

[Cloutman, David]

I would say that by definition _any_ XML based language is a markup
language, regardless of whether it is used to mark up data for
manipulation and transfer (such as RSS), or to mark up content for
presentation (XHTML).

Any XML document, to my knowledge, should be able to be attached to a
CSS stylesheet. I don't know enough about OWL or RDF to know if this is
practical, but it is possible. You can always, however, use XSLT to
transform any XML document into any other XML document, which means that
you should be able to turn OWL or RDF into XHTML based upon your need to
present the data to an end user.

- David


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David Cloutman <dcloutman at co.marin.ca.us>
Electronic Services Librarian
Marin County Free Library 

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Subject: [Web4lib] How do I create a semantic web site?


Hi,

How do I create a semantic web site?

I know I have to use either RDF or OWL but do I use either of these to 
create a mark up language which I then use to create the web site or,
with 
the semantic web do we move away from mark up languages altogether?

Am I right in thinking that OWL and RDF do not contain any information
on 
how the document is to be displayed or presented? They do not seem to 
allow for style sheets.

Is the creation of a semantic web site completely different from
anything 
that has gone before and I am stuck in an old way of looking at the 
problem? Are mark up languages a thing of the past as far as the Web is 
concerned?

Any clarification would be much appreciated.

Regards
John

John Fitzgibbon

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