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

[Mason R.K. Hall]

If you're the book type, I would recommend "Model Driven Architecture and
Ontology Development" for a nice (although sometimes overly technical)
overview of these technologies and some theoretical examples of their
implementation.

http://www.amazon.com/Model-Driven-Architecture-Ontology-Development/dp/3540321802

Mason







On Jan 9, 2008 1:35 PM, Alnisa Allgood <alnisa at nonprofit-tech.org> wrote:

> Actually the semantic web is a thing of the future, while there is a bunch
> of theory, ideas, and even some sample applications, I don't believe there
> are any robust or basic readers or content generators for it (besides
> manual).
> Obviously, XML, RDF, and OWL hold some of the components, but they aren't
> full solutions as of yet; and they probably won't move one away from
> mark-up
> language, but use existing or generate new mark-up—after all,
> the semantic web is really data about data, which at the most basic level
> means classification.
>
> WHile they are not the definitive source on the semantic web, they
> are readable by the average person, so give Read/Write Web a look,
> especially these articles:
>
> • http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/semantic_web_road.php
> •
>
> http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/semantic_web_difficulties_with_classic_approach.php
> • http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/the_top-down_semantic_web.php
>
> That said, some of the components that could be easily moved fro theory to
> practice are available for use, such as microformats :
> http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/the_top-down_semantic_web.php
>
> And of course, even maximizing HTML/XHTML to its full extent can be
> helpful—adding definitions, links, alt tags, using proper structural
> mark-up, etc.—all adds meta-data or data about data to encourage both
> human
> and machine connections and relationships for the data provided; for those
> not mathematically inclined.
>
> Alnisa
>
> On 1/9/08, jfitzgibbon at galwaylibrary.ie <jfitzgibbon at galwaylibrary.ie>
> wrote:
> >
> > 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
> >
> > p: 00 353 91 562471
> > f: 00 353 91 565039
> > w: http://www.galwaylibrary.ie
> >
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