Re: ontology entity-instance backlinks

Hi John --

You wrote...

*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.*

You may also want a user-level explanation of the chain of reasoning that
leads back to the context of the data.

Writing the inference rules in executable English, as in the system and
examples online at the site below, would be one way to get that.

                                     Cheers,  -- Adrian

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Adrian Walker
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On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 3:30 PM, John Flynn <jflynn@bbn.com> wrote:

>
> 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
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: semantic-web-request@w3.org [mailto:semantic-web-request@w3.org] On
> Behalf Of carmen r
> Sent: Monday, October 20, 2008 1:47 PM
> To: semantic-web@w3.org
> 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?
>
>
>
>