Geroimenko / Chen Visualizing the Semantic Web

XML-based Internet and Information Visualization
Erscheinungsjahr 2013
ISBN: 978-1-4471-3737-5
Verlag: Springer
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 202 Seiten, eBook

Vladimir Geroimenko and Chaomei Chen The Semantic Web is avision that has sparked a wide-ranging enthusiasm for a new generation of the Web. The Semantic Web is happening. The central idea of this vision is to make the Web more understandable to computer programs so that people can make more use of this gigantic asset. The use of metadata (data about data) can clearly indicate the meaning of data on the Web so as to provide computers with enough information to handle such data. On the future Web, many additionallayers will be required if we want computer programs to handle the semantics (the meaning of data) properly without human intervention. Such layers should deal with the hierarchical relationships between meanings, their similarities and differences, logical rules for making new inferences from the existing data and metadata, etc. Dozens of new technologies have emerged recently to implement these ideas. XML (eXtensible Markup Language) forms the foundation of the future Web, RDF (Resource Description Framework), Topic Maps and many other technologies help to erect a "multi storey" building of the Semantic Web layer by layer by adding new features and new types of metadata. According to Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the current Web and the Semantic Web, it may take up to ten years to complete the building. The new Web will be much more complex than the current one and will contain enormous amounts of metadata as weIl as data.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Geroimenko, Vladimir

Chen, Chaomei

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1: Semantic, Visual and Technological Facets of the Second Generation Web.- 1 The XML Revolution and the Semantic Web.- 2 Information Visualization Versus the Semantic Web.- 3 Ontology-based Information Visualization.- 4 Topic Maps Visualization.- 5 Web Rendering Systems: Techniques, Classification Criteria and Challenges.- 6 SVG and X3D: New XML Technologies for 2D and 3D Visualization.- 2: Visual Techniques and Applications for the Semantic Web.- 7 Visual Interfaces for Semantic Information Retrieval and Browsing.- 8 Interactive Visualization of Paragraph-level Metadata to Support Corporate Document Use.- 9 Web Services: Description, Interfaces and Ontology.- 10 Recommender Systems for the Web.- 11 Interactive Interfaces for Mapping E-commerce Ontologies.- 12 Using Scalable Vector Graphics and Geographical Information Systems in a Back Pain Study.- Concluding Remarks: Today’s Vision of Envisioning the Semantic Future.