Why the Semantic Web Hasnt Failed - and How we Shouldnt Fix It

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Why the Semantic Web hasn't failed, and how we shouldn't fix it David Millard Learning Societies Lab University of Southampton
The Infamous Layer Cake
- The Semantic Web will…
- "...open up the knowledge and workings of humankind to meaningful analysis by software agents, providing a new class of tools by which we can live, work and learn together."
- The Semantic Web , Tim Berners-Lee, James Hendler and Ora Lassila, Scientic American, May 2001
A Machine Readable Web
Sound familiar?
How do we do it? Be a Semantic Extrovert! Use Popular Ontologies (e.g. FOAF, SKOS) Promote RDF REST Interfaces
Why should you do it? Capturing Folksonomies? Mapping Ontologies Automatically? Because Web Literacy is changing e-learning
Building Brick by Yellow Brick Build on existing practise Demonstrate real advantage without real sacrifice