5. Semantic Web Value Proposition
• At its heart, the Semantic Web is really about
extending standard Web technologies to better
deal with data on the Web.
• Its fundamental approach is to create a uniform
data model and a simple grammar that are
realized through a Web language known as the
RDF standard which provide a means to give
Web addresses to data elements.
George Thomas and Jim Hendler, http://www.data.gov/communities/node/116/blogs/142
6. Semantic Web Value Proposition
• Resources associated with subjects, predicates
(properties and objects &all get HTTP
dereferenceable URI's, with different serialized
representations to suit machine (apps) and
human (browser) user preferences.
• By normalizing the way we access, process,
persist, and visualize data across domains, we
simplify mashups and maintenance and unleash
more innovation powered by democratized data.
George Thomas and Jim Hendler, http://www.data.gov/communities/node/116/blogs/142
8. Semantic web: describes methods and
technologies to allow machines to
understand the meaning or "semantics”
of information on the web.
-- W3C director Sir Tim Berners-Lee
Ontology: a formal representation of the
knowledge by a set of concepts within a
domain and the relationships between
those concepts.
-- Wikipedia
10. Storing data: People as an example
Data are structured as “triples” as subject-predicate-object
and information is stored using the Resource Description
Framework (RDF) .
Concepts and their relationships use a shared ontology to
facilitate the harvesting of data from multiple sources.
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19. OpenPHACTS
Open PHACTS Project
• Develop a set of robust standards…
• Implement the standards in a semantic integration hub
• Deliver services to support drug discovery programs in
pharma and public domain
• 22 partners, 8 pharmaceutical companies, 3 biotechs
• 36 months project
Guiding principle is open access, open usage, open source
- Key to standards adoption -
http://www.openphacts.org/
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Here were talking about different machines – computers.Describe typical web page, limitations of HTMLConnecting documents, not concepts; not easy to traverse across disparate data sourcesFrom DERI (http://www.deri.ie/about/press/coverage/details/?uid=194&ref=214): The semantic web is a term coined by world wide web inventor and Deri advisory board member Tim Berners-Lee, to describe the “web of data” that enables machines to understand the semantics, or meaning, of information on the web. It involves the insertion of machine-readable metadata into web pages to give information on how they are related to each other, enabling automated agents to access the web more intelligently and perform tasks on behalf of users. Berners-Lee has defined the semantic web as “a web of data that can be processed directly and indirectly by machines”.
This slide is meant for reference, post conference
This slide is meant for reference, post conference
From DERI (http://www.deri.ie/about/press/coverage/details/?uid=194&ref=214): The Semantic Web involves publishing in languages specifically designed for data: Resource Description Framework (RDF), Web Ontology Language (OWL), and Extensible Markup Language (XML). HTML describes documents and the links between them. RDF, OWL, and XML, by contrast, can describe arbitrary things such as people, meetings, or airplane parts.
Semantic/ontology definitions (below RDF), Elly in RDF example for visual, point out links.content from the VIVO team – http://vivoweb.org
Simple semantic advantage, content from the VIVO team – http://vivoweb.org
content from the VIVO team – http://vivoweb.org
Slide content from the VIVO team (http://vivoweb.org) and James King (NIH Library)
Image hyperlinked to movie – 1 minute, 45 seconds long
★ make your stuff available on the Web (whatever format) under an open license ★★ make it available as structured data (e.g., Excel instead of image scan of a table)★★★ use non-proprietary formats (e.g., CSV instead of Excel)★★★★ use URIs to identify things, so that people can point at your stuff★★★★★ link your data to other data to provide contextGo to http://lab.linkeddata.deri.ie/2010/star-scheme-by-example/ (linked on arrow) and view data levels and examples – emphasize costs and benefits
Live demo of VIVO Searchlight Across institutions VIVO provides a uniform semantic structure to enable a new class of tools using the data to advance science. visualizations, search, discovery, etc