© 2011 Sixhills Consulting LtdIntroduction to the Semantic WebThe term ‘Semantic Web’ was coined by Sir Tim Berners-Lee, progenitor of the World Wide Web and Semantic Web technologies. ‘Linked Data’ is a major element, and similar to ‘Linked Documents’ on the original WWWExploring Business Applications of Semantic Web Technology1. Linked Web of Documents2. Linked Web of DataSource: Adapted from Sir Tim Berners-Lee“Andy Gueritz”“+44(1673)838150”“P.O. Box 171”“Market Rasen”“LN8 3WX”:Person-1:AddressHasAddressHasNameHasPhoneStreetTownPostCode~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Andy~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~URI:<Person935982275>Name: AndyFriend: <Person189>rdfs:SeeAlso <URL>URI:<Person189>Name: TomFriend: …•Text and pictures linked by HTML links (URLs)•Structured (RDF) documents connected:– Explicitly by pointer assertions (rdfs:SeeAlso) and URLs (like ‘old’ WWW)– Implicitly by reference to uniform references (URIs)More detailsP1
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