“Semantic” Web 20.pptVIP

Advancing Web 2.0 to its full potential Background Who Are We? BBN Long-term Sherpa of the Semantic Web and other cool stuff Goals for Today Discuss the opportunity to expand the Semantic Web through Web 2.0 Some observations, insights, and possible directions Agenda Web 2.0 Fly By Semantic Web Opportunity Semantic 2.0 Sauce Semantic Web 2.0 Demonstration Summary Web 2.0 Fly By What does it all mean? Plays Nice with Others Reinforcing and enhancing Network Assumed (Duh!) Small, Simple, and Easy Do one small thing well - think UNIX shell scripts Not monolithic and comprehensive rather contributing Flexible Distribution Processing, GUI, etc Optimizes resources, locality Easy Integration, Scripting, and Interfacing Mere Use often Produces Enrichment and Scale Participatory Forms Collective Intelligence/Enrichment A Better View into the Real Treasure - Data Clearly, Data is the fuel of Web 2.0 “Data is the Next Intel Inside” For the most part still remains imprisoned Tough, Rewarding Data Challenges Ahead… Privacy Control and Ownership Distribution Security/Trust Digital Rights Management (DRM) (Yuk!) Access Integration embraced and extended their data suppliers The race is on to own certain classes of core data Free vs. Proprietary (Oh, data has only begun to explode) Web 2.0 feeds the fire along with other catalysts Semantic Web ContributionsYes, we can do that… Data and Service Integration Merge/Align Deconfliction Consistency Trust Re-Mixable Policy Security Privacy Distribution Data and Service Transformation Semantics Tagging Technical Access Query Search Logic Discovery Inference Adding Semantic Sauce to Web 2.0 Three Steps Recognize and Leverage Foundation Collect and Corral Best Practices Offer Services Recognize and Leverage Foundation A lot of solid progress… Standards RDF, OWL, SPARQL, SWRL, … Platforms Jena, Sesame, … Tools Protégé, SWeDE Practices SWBPD Collect and Corral Best Practices Help with Transition Direction and Measurement /2001/sw/Best