The Semantic Web:
Making sense of it all

Motivation for semantic web

So, what is it anyways?

Other examples:
Services off the desktop

Or perhaps on different desktops…

This is great, why didn’t we think of it sooner?!?

CYC and the Semantic Web

Implementing SW

SW Layer Cake

Resource Description Framework

RDF Model

RDF / XML: assertion interchange

RDF Schema – Basis for ontology

RDF Schema Core classes,properties,constraints

RDF Schemas

RDF schema example

What about incompatible schemas? SW’s Answer: ___

Have facts, can interchange…

SW Layer Cake Revisited

References

To think about…