READIT - 2009 - Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research

Proceedings of READIT-2009, Kalpakkam - 603 102, 29-30 Dec 2009
SEMANTIC WEB TECHNOLOGIES
G. Sivakumar
The Internet (World Wide Web) revolution has both democratized access to
information and empowered users to become valuable producers rather than
mere consumers. While search engines have to some extent tamed the
complexity of locating useful information, their "syntactic" foundation limits
them from discovering more useful "semantic connections" and delivering
more value to users. One way to add this intelligence to the Web is to make
the data smarter enabling such semantic search. In this talk, we will give a
broad overview of the key technologies in the Semantic web stack including
the Resource Description Framework (RDF), RDF Schema (RDFS), the Web
Ontology Language (OWL). We will also assess the strengths and
weaknesses of this approach using relevant case studies.
Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai – 400 076
Email: siva@iitb. ac. in
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