RE: ontology entity-instance backlinks

Yes, XHTML2.

I would propose that each participating web site include a top-level tag
indicating it contained semantic markup. A dedicated web crawler would find
those sites and build a search table containing the specific instance data,
the referenced ontology for each instance, and the original web site uri to
allow manual checkback to verify the data if desired. A semantic search
engine would contain a list of applicable ontologies for a hypothetical
search for some specific automobile information. The usefulness of those
ontologies might be determined by some algorithmic which included frequency
of reference, much like Google does. It might find instance data directly
from the ontology and its own associated instance data and/or from finding
the applicable ontologies in the search table and extracting the relevant
instance data.  If my semantic search of information about automobiles
returned specific data and I could see it came from www.bmw.com, I would
probably accept that data on face value. If the data source was
www.futurecars.com, I might want to visit the source web site to look at the
context of the data. 

John

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Subject: Re: ontology entity-instance backlinks


> developers to mark up their data in a way that it can simply be accessed
via
> the Semantic Web. Both RDFa and HTML2 are addressing this issue, but there

i assume you mean XHTML2? HTML5 also has some metadata stuff

> is still no simple way to html tag specific local web site data as
instances
> of a widely used ontology located at a remote site. You  might envision a
> generally accepted ontology on a domain such as  "wine" that many of the
> individual html web sites on that subject would link their data to as
> instances. A capability to search that ontology could lead back to the
> marked up instance data,

this is an interesting idea. are you proposing some sort of pingback service
for ontology hosts?

Received on Monday, 20 October 2008 19:31:27 UTC