Re: Help required for my research in semantic web

Hi Saba,

You don't need to have a big list of mailboxes - sending to
semantic-web@w3.org (first semantic-web-request@w3.org to subscribe I
think) will get to all the people you need.

2009/10/10 saba arslan <sabarslan@gmail.com>:
> Hi,
>
> I'm an MS student at one of the developing countries, that is, Pakistan. I'm
> conducting my research on the migration of existing web to the semantic web.

Great!

> I had an idea of using microformats for this purpose and automating the
> process. Unfortunately, to continue with my research, I'm unable to find the
> relevant description on why this method (or a similar one) is not used
> before.

I'm not sure "migrating" is quite the right word - the Semantic Web is
an extension of the existing Web, so there's no major changeover. But
you are certainly looking in the right kind of areas if you've
encountered microformats. Taking that as a starting point, I'd suggest
looking at RDFa and GRDDL :

http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml-rdfa-primer/

http://www.w3.org/TR/grddl-primer/

It might be due to the fact that we have limited resources to find
> work from which include IEEE and ACM.

If you have Web access then you have access to virtually all the
recent work in the field, if anything the print publications lag
behind the material you'll find online.

There might be some work done or still
> in progress in automatically migrating the current web's static contents
> into semantic web. I read your paper while I was working my way through so I
> thought of asking you.

If you have any specific questions, please send them to the list
mentioned above. For background material the starting point is ...
well I was going to point you to the W3C's homepage on the subject,
but Google gave me Wikipedia's entry first, which isn't bad :

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic_Web

ok, the other :

http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/

I don't know what your connectivity is like (I live in rural Italy and
broadband hasn't quite got here), but if possible I'd recommend this
video :

http://www.technologyreview.com/video/semantic

(I should be able to send it as an email attachment, if necessary)

For ongoing updates on what people in the field are doing, check:

http://planetrdf.com

people will (when they notice) answer your questions on

#swig, irc.freenode.net

(available via http://www.mibbit.com/ if you can't use an IRC client).

Please let us know how you get on with your automation idea, and above
all - enjoy your research!

Cheers,
Danny.





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Received on Saturday, 10 October 2009 12:59:57 UTC