Semantic Web and the Libraries: An Overview

Developments in the Semantic Web are of increasing significance to information professionals. As well as having useful applications within digital libraries, information professionals have an emerging role to play in the development and maintenance of the structured data comprising the Semantic Web (e.g. metadata, ontology, etc.). The relevance of the Semantic Web to Library and Information Science (LIS) has been reflected in recent research and dissemination activity by information professionals and many are actively participating in the development of important W3C Semantic Web specifications. E-Learning resources tend to be more and more decentralized. Users increasingly need to be able to use the resources of the web. For this, they should have tools for finding and organizing information in a decentralized way. In this paper, we show how an ontology-based tool suite allows making the most of the resources available on the web and also discusses the role of libraries in the Semantic Web. It provides a brief introduction to the Semantic Web and its technologies, including Resource Description Framework, and their relevance to library metadata.

Semantic web is an extension of current web. It is about common formats for integration and combination of data drawn from diverse sources, where as the original web mainly concentrated on the interchange of documents. The semantic web is a mesh of information linked up in such a way as to be easily processable by machines, on a global scale. This is an efficient way of representing data on the world wide web, or as a globally linked database. This paper also discusses about related works on semantic web, semantic web layers, languages on the web, application of semantic web in library services, opportunities and challenges and concludes that the support of learning objectives based on a dynamic invocation of semantic web service process model follows an innovative approach and is distinctive to the current state of the art in this area. The functions redefined in the context of the semantic web, may improve and accelerate semantic web development.

The World Academy of Research in Science and Engineering

The web is meant for human consumption rather than the machine consumption. At present scenario, everything on the web is machine readable, not machine understandable. The method for data handling in the traditional web (The Syntactic web) is tedious, time consuming, and also provides many unrelated information. The Syntactic web (Current Web) provides an interface for users to render HTML documents and retrieve linked documents with simple user interface commands. On the other hand, Semantic Web making the web more understandable by machines and provide accurate results. So Semantic Web is needed to express the information in a precise, machine interpretable form. This Web aims to convert the current web, which is dominated by unstructured and semi-structured documents into 'web of data'. In addition, Semantic web integrates the information in an intelligent way and providing semantic based access to the internet. Semantic is building an appropriate infrastructure for intelligent agents to run around the web performing complex action for their users extracting information from texts. Semantic web also provides automated information access based on Machineprocessable semantics of data and heuristics that use these metadata. This paper presents a comparative study of Syntactic and Semantic web technologies.

International Journal of Engineering Technologies and Management Research, 2019

Semantic web is a concept that enables better machine processing of information on the web, by structuring documents written for the web in such a way that they become understandable by machines. This can be used for creating more complex applications (intelligent browsers, more advanced web agents), etc. Semantic modeling languages like the Resource Description Framework (RDF) and topic maps employ XML syntax to achieve this objective. New tools exploit cross domain vocabularies to automatically extract and relate the meta information in a new context. Web Ontology languages like DAML+OIL extend RDF with richer modeling primitives and a provide a technological basis to enable the Semantic Web. The logic languages for Semantic Web are described (which build on the of RDF and ontology languages). They, together with digital signatures, enable a web of trust, which will have levels of trust for its resources and for the rights of access, and will enable generating proofs, for the actions and resources on the web.

IRJET, 2022

The human mind can only grasp natural language, but a computer can only comprehend digital data in the form of 1s and 0s. There are only two ways to develop a single, shared vernacular for both machines and people: Either educate mankind how to think in binary, or create a machine to understand natural language. The former of these two choices is impractical since the typical human brain is not sufficiently developed to carry out such a task. As a result, there is intense study being done on the drive to teach a computer to understand natural language. This idea is first being applied on a big scale on the Internet due of the huge volume of data that is available. This necessitates the conversion of the present Web 2.0 to the future Internet, often known as Web 3.0 or Semantic Web. The Semantic Web's potential applications are a hot topic of study, despite the fact that it is still in the early phases of development. This essay addresses strategies for integrating the benefits of the Semantic Web into the Internet's current system of several domains.

Using semantic web technologies in digital library offers a new level of flexibility, interoperability and way to enhance peer communication and sharing knowledge. It expands the usefulness of the digital libraries that will contain majority of data in future. Paper outlines the emerging concepts of social semantics digital library and explores the potential of using semantic web technologies for the digital libraries.

In 1998 the WorldWide Web Consortium (W3C) inaugurated a research initiative centred on the idea of providing semantics for and facilitating the extraction of knowledge from the WWW. The Semantic Web is a vision of Tim Berners-Lee, the creator of the WWW. With the help of XML, RDF, OIL and other emergent standards it will be possible to give more structure and meaning to existing web data. This will lead to a universal network where all available information can effectively be found: the semantic web. Clearly, the realisation of the semantic web will have a huge influence on the way digital libraries will be conceived.

Ontologies have become a popular research topic in many communities. In fact, ontology is a main component of this research; therefore, the definition, structure and the main operations and applications of ontology are provided. Web content consists mainly of distributed hypertext and hypermedia, and is accessed via a combination of keyword based search and link navigation. Hence, the ontology can provide a common vocabulary, and a grammar for publishing data, and can supply a semantic description of data which can be used to preserve the ontologies and keep them ready for inference. This paper provides basic concepts of semantic web, and defines the structure and the main applications of ontology.

Open J. Web Technol., 2015

One major aim of the Semantic Web is to enable a machine-processable Web of data. Hence, the Semantic Web community regards it as extension of the traditional web. On the other hand, the applications of the Semantic Web rely deeply on web technologies in order to work in a distributed fashion, world-wide. The goal of this special issue is to bring together contributions from these communities to address the challenges in Semantic Web and Web technologies in cooperation. The papers included in this special issue demonstrate how new technologies of the Web and Semantic Web complement each other and provide more contributions to the area of web technologies. The semantic part of this special issue, which contains substantial theoretical and empirical contributions to Semantic Web, is published in Open Journal of Semantic Web (OJSW).

This research is mainly about to discuss World Wide Web leading to the need of the proposition of a new concept i.e. Semantic Web. Concerning Semantic Web, the conducted research provides information for the implementation of semantic based web applications by providing the concept of structuring of data over the web to take advantage in extracting semantic based information. Going into the details, this paper presents Ontology as the main building block of Semantic Web of present time, its supporting technologies i.e. XML, RDF and OWL, and some existing limitations with respect to its use in real time web application development. Furthermore, before concluding the discussion some Semantic Web based applications are presented which are developed with the use of Ontology and providing lots of values in the implementation of semantic based applications by providing structured data over the web to take advantage in implementing efficient web based information retrieval search mechanisms.