Did You Know Semantic Web ?!

 

 

 

Assalamu Alaikum, dear..

Now, I'll share to you about Semantic Web. Yuuupppzzz, Semantic! have you ever heard it before ?

Ok, Let's we start to talk about it now ^o^v

 

1. What is the Semantic Web?

 

The Semantic Web is a web that is able to describe things in a way that computers can understand.

• The Beatles was a popular band from Liverpool.
• John Lennon was a member of the Beatles.
• "Hey Jude" was recorded by the Beatles.

Sentences like the ones above can be understood by people. But how can they be understood by computers? Statements are built with syntax rules. The syntax of a language defines the rules for building the language statements. But how can syntax become semantic? This is what the Semantic Web is all about. Describing things in a way that computers applications can understand it.

“The Semantic Web is not about links between web pages”

The Semantic Web describes the relationships between things (like A is a part of B and Y is a member of  Z) and the properties of things (like size, weight, age, and price)

"If HTML and the Web made all the online documents look like one huge book, RDF, schema, and inference languages will make all the data in the world look like one huge database"
Tim Berners-Lee, Weaving the Web, 1999 

  

2. The Resource Description Framework

The RDF (Resource Description Framework) is a language for describing information and resources on the web. Putting information into RDF files, makes it possible for computer programs ("web spiders") to search, discover, pick up, collect, analyze and process information from the web.

“The Semantic Web uses RDF to describe web resources”

But generally RDF is a framework for describing Web resources, such as the title, author, modification date, content, and copyright information of a Web page.
 

3. How can it be used?

If information about music, cars, tickets, etc. were stored in RDF files, intelligent web applications could collect information from many different sources, combine information, and present it to users in a meaningful way.
 

Information like this:

• Car prices from different resellers
• Information about medicines
• Plane schedules
• Spare parts for the industry
• Information about books (price, pages, editor, year)
• Dates of events
• Computer updates

4. Can it be understood?

 

“The Semantic Web is not a very fast growing technology”

One of the reasons for that is the learning curve. RDF was developed by people with academic background in logic and artificial intelligence. For traditional developers it is not very easy to understand.
One fast growing language for building semantic web applications is RSS. With RSS it possible to distribute up-to-date web content from one web site to thousands of other web sites around the world.

“RSS allows fast browsing for news and updates”

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