Spinning the Semantic Web: Bringing the World Wide Web to Its Full Potential

Description:

As the World Wide Web continues to expand, it becomes increasingly difficult for users to obtain information efficiently. Because most search engines read format languages such as HTML or SGML, search results reflect formatting tags more than actual page content, which is expressed in natural language. Spinning the Semantic Web describes an exciting new type of hierarchy and standardization that will replace the current "web of links" with a "web of meaning." Using a flexible set of languages and tools, the Semantic Web will make all available information -- display elements, metadata, services, images, and especially content -- accessible. The result will be an immense repository of information accessible for a wide range of new applications.

This first handbook for the Semantic Web covers, among other topics, software agents that can negotiate and collect information, markup languages that can tag many more types of information in a document, and knowledge systems that enable machines to read Web pages and determine their reliability. The truly interdisciplinary Semantic Web combines aspects of artificial intelligence, markup languages, natural language processing, information retrieval, knowledge representation, intelligent agents, and databases.

Dieter Fensel is Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science at the University of Innsbruck, Austria

James Hendler is Director of Semantic Web and Agent Technology, Maryland Information and Network Dynamics Laboratory, University of Maryland.

Henry Lieberman is Research Scientist at the MIT Media Laboratory.

Wolfgang Wahlster is Director and CEO of the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence and Professor of Computer Science at the Universität des Saarlandes, Saarbrücken.

Table of Contents:

Foreword Tim Berners-Lee	xi
1	Introduction Dieter Fensel, James A. Hendler, Henry Lieberman and Wolfgang Wahlster	1
I	Languages and Ontologies
2	SHOE: A Blueprint for the Semantic Web Jeff Heflin, James A. Hendler and Sean Luke	29
3	DAML-ONT: An Ontology Language for the Semantic Web Deborah L. McGuinness, Richard Fikes, Lynn Andrea Stein and James A. Hendler	65
4	Ontologies and Schema Languages on the Web Michel Klein, Jeen Broekstra, Dieter Fensel, Frank van Harmelen and Ian Horrocks	95
5	UPML: The Language and Tool Support for Making the Semantic Web Alive Borys Omelayenko, Monica Crubézy, Dieter Fensel, Richard Benjamins, Bob Wielinga, Enrico Motta, Mark Musen and Ying Ding	141
6	Ontologies Come of Age Deborah L. McGuinness	171
II	Knowledge Support
7	Sesame: An Architecture for Storing and Querying RDF Data and Schema Information	197
8	Enabling Task-Centered Knowledge Support through Semantic Markup	223
9	Knowledge Mobility: Semantics for the Web as a White Knight for Knowledge-Based Systems Yolanda Gil	253
10	Complex Relationships for the Semantic Web Sanjeev Thacker, Amit Sheth and Shuchi Patel	279
11	SEmantic portAL: The SEAL Approach Alexander Maedche, Steffen Staab, Nenad Stojanovic, Rudi Studer and York Sure	317
III	Dynamic Aspect
12	Semantic Gadgets: Ubiquitous Computing Meets the Semantic Web Ora Lassila and Mark Adler	363
13	Static and Dynamic Semantics of the Web Christopher Frye, Mike Plusch and Henry Lieberman	377
14	Semantic Annotation for Web Content Adaptation Masahiro Hori	403
15	Task-Achieving Agents on the World Wide Web	431
	Contributors	459
	Index	465