Practical Semantic Works –
Bridging the Web of Users and the
Web of Data
Anca Luca, RoCHI, September 2009, Cluj

Motivation
make the Semantic Web relevant for the users
retrieval and reusage of semantic data

Motivation

Modeling knowledge on the web
<rdf:Description
rdf:about=”http://students.info.uaic.ro/~lucaa/psw”>
<dc:creator>Anca Luca</dc:creator>
</rdf:Description>
and concepts, instances, relations, logic properties,
etc...

Web of linked data

Real-world semantics
semantic embedded in web markup:
POSH, microformats, RDFa, eRDF

Interaction vision
Retrieval for reusage
users retrieve data from the web in order to
reuse it in the content they create on the web

Interaction vision - retrieval
“What is the property of Subject?”
define a pattern for a user query,
to answer from the Semantic Web data,
based on simple rules for identifying the property
and subject

Interaction vision - reusage
Reuse retrieved value in the edited content
the semantic of answer is preserved,
as microformats in the created content,
created with simple flexible rules

Proof of concept

In brief,
making the Semantic Web relevant to users,
in their own language,
using mechanisms of the Semantic Web,
following a retrieve for reuse paradigm,
preserving the semantic on reusage,
with a scheme to transform Semantic Web
markup in Social Web markup

Thank you!
lucaa@info.uaic.ro
students.info.uaic.ro/~lucaa/psw
ancaluca.blogspot.com
www.linkedin.com/in/lucaa
twitter.com/lucaa

Q&A