The Semantic Web
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Introducing the semantic web and contextual content
In a design paper written seven years ago, Berners-Lee described his vision of the Semantic Web, and the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has been steadily laying the framework for ever since.
The aim of the Semantic Web is to add metadata to information placed online, so it can be read by machines allowing a number of interactions to then be automated. For example, an online catalog could connect to customers' order history and preferences as well as their calendars, to automatically pick available times for a product delivery.
Projects involving Semantic Web technologies are already under way at several organizations. Boeing is exploring semantics-based applications for information and application integration and interoperability, and for knowledge management. Adobe Systems has built into its products Adobe Extensible Metadata Platform (XMP), an RDF-based metadata system that links contextual information with content files.
So what does this all mean?
The development of content delivery based on Content, Knowledge and Behavioral data presenting personalized content to users in a structure more suited to their needs is the ideal design. Users of the systems such as IKUM see benefits from the optimal logical structure of information/content provided by the system, allowing them to efficiently execute their processes/tasks and to reach their information targets.
The integration of technology advances in spaces such as Web Mining, Content Management, Personalization and Portals allows the system to combine knowledge of typical user behaviors with rules and conditions of the underlying content structure. Coupled with semantics this provides the optimal flow and design of information assuring contextual content integrity.
So lets got contextual, and get ready for tomorrows web!
Links
The Conceptual Web
http://kmr.nada.kth.se/papers/SemanticWeb/pospaper.pdf
Semantic Web based Content Enrichment and Knowledge Reuse in e-Science
http://www.geodise.org/files/Papers/odbase-camera-submit.pdf
Contexts for the Semantic Web
http://tap.stanford.edu/contexts.pdf
