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

[Alnisa Allgood]

Here's another post on possible killer apps for the semantic web:

http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/semantic_web_what_is_the_killer_app.php




Alnisa- Hide quoted text -


On 1/10/08, Rob Styles < rob.styles at talis.com <rob.styles at talis.com>> wrote:
>
> John,
>
> There are lots of things to play with, but only few real examples.
> OWL is not necessary to understand initially, only RDF and the forms
> worth reading up on are really turtle (http://www.dajobe.org/2004/01/
> turtle/) and RDF/XML ( http://www.w3.org/TR/rdf-syntax-grammar/<http://www.w3.org/TR/rdf-syntax-grammar/>
> ).
> These are both technical specs, so may not be the easiest read.
>
> Practical examples of getting data out on the semantic web using
> existing tools come mostly from Linking Open Data community (http://
> esw.w3.org/topic/SweoIG/TaskForces/CommunityProjects/
> LinkingOpenData). They produced a set of guidelines on how to publish
> linked open data in the "right" way last year ( http://sites.wiwiss.fu-
> berlin.de/suhl/bizer/pub/LinkedDataTutorial/).
>
> It's still early days for many of the tools and things are evolving
> quickly.
>
> If you want to play with data without having to set up tools yourself
> we have semantic storage technologies in our platform - email me off
> list if you'd like more information.
>
> rob
>
> On 9 Jan 2008, at 16:35, <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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