- From: Guus Schreiber <schreiber@cs.vu.nl>
- Date: Wed, 04 May 2005 17:06:08 +0200
- To: SWBPD list <public-swbp-wg@w3.org>
-------- Original Message -------- Subject: SemantExplorer Resent-Date: Sat, 30 Apr 2005 16:27:14 +0000 Resent-From: www-rdf-interest@w3.org Date: Sat, 30 Apr 2005 17:42:04 +0200 (CEST) From: CHARLIE ABELA <charlie.abela@um.edu.mt> To: rewerse-all@rewerse.net CC: www-webont-wg@w3.org, www-rdf-interest@w3.org Dear all, we want to highlight one of our latest projects related to the Semantic Web. SemantExplorer: Web Page annotation, using domain specific ontologies is the basis of the semantic web, and besides RDF and RDFS, OWL has emerged as the most common language for defining relationships between resources in a web page. A Semantic Web Browser deals with the annotations embedded in the HTML of a web page. Currently there are two approaches to creating Semantic Web Browsers. A SEMANTIC WEB Browser has been described as a browser that explores the semantic web in its own right, and is able to relate and aggregate information about resources located in different web documents. On the other hand a Semantic WEB BROWSER can be described as a special web browser, that augments standard web browsers with the ability to visualize hidden metadata. While approaches like the latter ARE based almost entirely on the present WWW resource sharing technologies, other approaches could involve new ideas. In particular, special repositories could be used for the collection of RDF triples from various accessed locations over time. Such triple stores could largely improve the efficiency of locating information on some resource of interest. Our SemantExplorer attempts to bridge the gap between these two approaches. While the Table and Graph Builders contribute to the 'SEMANTIC WEB Browser', the Lens Builder, contributes to the alternate approach, by enabling navigation through related data. More information on the preliminary version of SemantExplorer can be found at: http://staff.um.edu.mt/cabe2/supervising/undergraduate/swbrowsing/semantexplorer.html Your feedback is strongly welcome! Stay tuned for more ... Charlie Abela Department of CSAI University of Malta -- Free University Amsterdam, Computer Science De Boelelaan 1081a, 1081 HV Amsterdam, The Netherlands Tel: +31 20 598 7739/7718; E-mail: schreiber@cs.vu.nl Home page: http://www.cs.vu.nl/~guus/
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