A ten slide presentation to kick off a discussion with folks who have never heard of the semantic web

1. Weaving a Web of Data 01 of 10 O N E B I G W E B . C O M Semantic Web

2. 02 of 10 Vision O N E B I G W E B . C O M Integrate all the world’s Content

3. 03 of 10 to achieve O N E B I G W E B . C O M Rich Querying over Distributed Content

4. 04 of 10 Content O N E B I G W E B . C O M

6. 04 of 10 Content O N E B I G W E B . C O M Databases

8. 04 of 10 Content O N E B I G W E B . C O M Databases Documents

9. 05 of 10 Integrate O N E B I G W E B . C O M Identifiers Paris Hilton != Paris, France Schema’s DoB = birth date

10. 06 of 10 URI O N E B I G W E B . C O M http://dbpedia.org/resource/Bill_Clinton http://dbpedia.org/property/birthPlace (Identifiers) (Schema’s)

11. 07 of 10 Statement O N E B I G W E B . C O M Subject Predicate Object http://dbpedia.org/resource/Bill_Clinton http://dbpedia.org/property/birthPlace http://dbpedia.org/resource/Arkansas http://dbpedia.org/resource/Bill_Clinton http://dbpedia.org/property/birthPlace http://dbpedia.org/resource/Arkansas

12. 08 of 10 Content O N E B I G W E B . C O M <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Uptown_Clint> <http://dbpedia.org/property/redirect> <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Bill_Clinton> <http://dbpedia.org/resource/United_States_Court_of_Appeals_for_the_Fifth_Circuit> <http://dbpedia.org/property/appointer> <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Bill_Clinton> . <http://dbpedia.org/resource/William_J._Clinton> <http://dbpedia.org/property/redirect> <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Bill_Clinton> . <http://dbpedia.org/resource/United_States_Court_of_Appeals_for_the_Fourth_Circuit> <http://dbpedia.org/property/appointer> <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Bill_Clinton> . <http://dbpedia.org/resource/United_States_Court_of_Appeals_for_the_Tenth_Circuit> <http://dbpedia.org/property/appointer> <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Bill_Clinton> . <http://dbpedia.org/resource/George_H._W._Bush/succession_box6> <http://dbpedia.org/property/after> <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Bill_Clinton> . <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Clay_Constantinou> <http://dbpedia.org/property/president> <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Bill_Clinton> . <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Chelsea_Clinton> <http://dbpedia.org/property/parents> <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Bill_Clinton> . <http://dbpedia.org/resource/United_States_presidential_election%2C_1992> <http://dbpedia.org/property/name> <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Bill_Clinton> . <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Peace_is_Possible_%28book%29> <http://dbpedia.org/property/author> <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Bill_Clinton> . <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Guido_Calabresi> <http://dbpedia.org/property/nominator> <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Bill_Clinton> . … … … … … … … . more statements………… (documents or databases)

13. 09 of 10 Aggregators O N E B I G W E B . C O M GOOGLE Twine Freebase PowerSet TrueKnowledge Talis

14. 10 of 10 Applications O N E B I G W E B . C O M ?