Semantic Web: Principles

CmpE 583- WEB SEMANTICS: THEORY AND PRACTICE

Summary: Semantic Web: principles and practice. URI naming; XML technologies.

Revelation: Technology Review interview with Tim Berners-Lee: "Sir Tim Berners Lee", in Technology Review, October, 2004 issue. Local copy: pdf, print version.
Another view by Sandro Hawke: How the Semantic Web Works?

An early account by Edd Dumbill: The Semantic Web: A Primer.
Section on "Semantic Web: the pieces" in Tim Berners-Lee: Web Architecture from 50,000 feet.

Principles, practices, components.
2004-01, An Overview of The Semantic Web, by Eric Miller. Presented at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan USA.
2004-03, Introducing the Semantic Web, by Dan Brickley. Presented at W3C Israeli Office: Semantic Web seminar (9 Mar 2004).
2004-05-20, Semantic Web, Phase 2: Developments and Deployment, by Eric Miller. Presented at WWW2004 W3C Track on the Semantic Web.
Discussion period.

URI- Uniform Resource Identifier standard by IETF.
Uniform Resource Identifiers (URI): Generic Syntax (RFC2396).
RFC3986: New URI specification (proposal) by Tim Berners-Lee et al. to superceed RFC2396 is now (Jan. 2005) open for comments.
Good news for non-native English speakers: new IETF specification (proposal open for comments) extends URI's to IRI- Internationlaized Resource Identifiers.
URL- Uniform Resource Locator is a Web address. ?URL anatomy: breaking it down.
The Official IANA Registry of URI Schemes.
This Official IANA Registry of URN Namespaces.
The living official Internet Protocol Numbers and Assignment Services.

Updated Oct. 11, 2006.