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What is the Semantic Web? (In 15 minutes…)
ISOC Nieuwjaarsreceptie 2009
2009-01-15, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Ivan Herman, W3C
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Let’s organize a trip to Budapest using the Let’s organize a trip to Budapest using the Web!Web!
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You try to find a proper flight with …You try to find a proper flight with …
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… … a big, reputable airline, or …a big, reputable airline, or …
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… … the airline of the target country, or …the airline of the target country, or …
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… … or a low cost oneor a low cost one
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You have to find a hotel, so you look for…You have to find a hotel, so you look for…
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… … a really cheap accommodation, or …a really cheap accommodation, or …
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… … or a really luxurious one, or …or a really luxurious one, or …
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… … and intermediate one …and intermediate one …
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oops, that is no good, the page is in oops, that is no good, the page is in Hungarian that almost nobody Hungarian that almost nobody
understands, but…understands, but…
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… … this one could workthis one could work
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Of course, you could decide to trust a Of course, you could decide to trust a specialized site…specialized site…
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… … like this one, or…like this one, or…
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… … or this oneor this one
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You may want to know something about You may want to know something about Budapest; look for some photographs…Budapest; look for some photographs…
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… … on flickr …on flickr …
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… … on Google …on Google …
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… … or you can look at mine or you can look at mine
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but you can also look at a (social) travel sitebut you can also look at a (social) travel site
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What happened here?What happened here?You had to consult a large number of sites, all different in style, purpose, possibly language…You had to mentally integrate all those information to achieve your goalsWe all know that, sometimes, this is a long and tedious process!
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All those pages are only tips of respective icebergs:the real data is hidden somewhere in databases, XML files, Excel sheets, …you have only access to what the Web page designers allow you to see
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Specialized sites (Expedia, TripAdvisor) do a bit more:
they gather and combine data from other sources (usually with the approval of the data owners)but they still control how you see those sources
But sometimes you want to personalize: access the original data and combine it yourself!
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Here is another example…Here is another example…
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Another example: social sites. I have a list Another example: social sites. I have a list of “friends” by…of “friends” by…
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… … Dopplr, Dopplr,
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… … Twine,Twine,
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… … LinkedIn,LinkedIn,
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… … and, of course, the ubiquitous Facebookand, of course, the ubiquitous Facebook
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I had to type in and connect with friends again and again for each site independentlyThis is even worse then before: I feed the icebergs, but I still do not have an easy access to data…
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What would we like to have?What would we like to have?Use the data on the Web the same way as we do with documents:
be able to link to data (independently of their presentation)use that data the way I want (present it, mine it, etc)agents, programs, scripts, etc, should be able to interpret part of that data
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Put it another way…Put it another way…We would like to extend the current Web to a “Web of data”:
allow for applications to exploit the data directly
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But wait! Isn’t what mashup sites are But wait! Isn’t what mashup sites are already doing?already doing?
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A “mashup” example:A “mashup” example:
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In some ways, yes, and that shows the huge power of what such Web of data providesBut mashup sites are forced to do very ad-hoc jobs
various data sources expose their data via Web Serviceseach with a different API, a different logic, different structurethese sites are forced to reinvent the wheel many times because there is no standard way of doing things
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Put it another way (again)…Put it another way (again)…We would like to extend the current Web to a standard way for a “Web of data”
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But what does this mean? But what does this mean?
What makes the current (document) Web work?people create different documentsthey give an address to it (ie, a URI) and make it accessible to others on the Web
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An example: Steven’s site on AmsterdamAn example: Steven’s site on Amsterdam(done for some visiting friends)(done for some visiting friends)
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Then some magic happens…Then some magic happens…Others discover the site and they link to itThe more they link to it, the more important and well known the page becomes
remember, this is what, eg, Google exploits!This is the “Network effect”: some pages become important, and others begin to rely on it even if the author did not expect it…
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This could be expected…This could be expected…
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but this one, from the other side of the Globe, but this one, from the other side of the Globe, was not…was not…
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What would that mean for a Web of Data?What would that mean for a Web of Data?Lessons learned: we should be able to:
“publish” the data to make it known on the Web standard ways should be used instead of ad-hoc approaches the analogous approach to documents: give URI-s to the data
make it possible to “link” to that URI from other sources of data (not only Web pages)
ie, applications should not be forced to make targeted developments to access the data
generic, standard approaches should suffice and let the network effect work its way…
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Example: combine data from experimentsExample: combine data from experimentsA drug company has huge amount of old experimental data on its IntranetData in different formats (XML, databases, …)
Courtesy of Nigel Wilkinson, Lee Harland, Pfizer Ltd, Melliyal Annamalai, Oracle (SWEO Case Study)
To reuse them:make the important facts available on the Web via standardsuse off-the-shelf tool to integrate, display, search
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But it is a little bit more complicatedBut it is a little bit more complicatedOn the traditional Web, humans are implicitly taken into accountA Web link has a “context” that a person may use
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Eg: address field on my page:Eg: address field on my page:
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… … leading to this pageleading to this page
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A human understands that this is my institution’s home pageHe/she knows what it means (realizes that it is a research institute in Amsterdam)On a Web of Data, something is missing; machines can’t make sense of the link alone
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New lesson learned: extra information (“label”) must be added to a (data) link: “this links to my institution, which is a research institute”this information should be machine readablethis is a characterization (or “classification”) of both the link and its targetin some cases, the classification should allow for some limited “reasoning”
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Let us put it togetherLet us put it togetherWhat we need for a Web of Data:
use URI-s to publish data, not only full documentsallow the data to link to other datacharacterize/classify the data and the links (the “terms”) to convey some extra meaning and use standards for all these!
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So What So What isis the Semantic Web? the Semantic Web?
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It is a collection of standard technologies It is a collection of standard technologies to realize a Web of Datato realize a Web of Data
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It is that simple…Of course, the devil is in the details
a common model has to be provided for machines to describe, query, etc, the data and their connectionsthe “classification” of the terms can become very complex for specific knowledge areas: this is where ontologies, thesauri, etc, enter the game…but these details are fleshed out by experts as we speak!
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In the end…In the end…
More an more data should be “published” on the Web
this can lead to the “network effect” on data
New breeds of applications come to the fore
“mashups on steroids” better representation and usage of community knowledgenew customization possibilities…
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