1. The document discusses the Semantic Web and how publishing structured data using technologies like RDF and SPARQL allows machines to understand information and make connections between different data sources. 2. It describes the Archipel research project which uses Semantic Web technologies like RDF and SPARQL Views to interconnect distributed cultural heritage data and provide new ways to access and combine the data. 3. Participating in the Semantic Web can open up new business opportunities by enabling novel ways of combining and sharing data between organizations.

1. Riding the Semantic Web Matthias Vandermaesen

2. O hi! Matthias Vandermaesen

3. Drupal Ninja

4. http://www.krimson.be

5. @netsensei

6. Outline Semantic Web

7. The Archipel Project

8. Demonstration

9. Why you should participate too

10. The Semantic Web

11. What is the Semantic Web? A group of technologies

12. Bringing meaning - “semantics” - to information

13. Allows applications to “understand” information And make connections (cross references,...)

14. Automagically For humans first Combine, share and find more easily

15. The “old” web

16. The “old” web HTML only describes structure of documents

17. HTML links documents not data

18. Data is ... human understandable ...

19. ... but not machine understable We can't do really cool stuff with it

20. Cool stuff Search engines Yahoo, Google, Bing

21. Enriched search results with relevant information Connect datasources Public transport timetables vs Google Maps

22. Compare prices on different webshops

23. Moviereviews on imdb.com vs. Your local theatre

24. ... Connect people on social networks Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn,...

25. How do we “get on” the semantic web?

26. Publishing “semantic” content Make information machine understandable... ... so they “know” what data they process

27. ... and can respond to that data We have to format information With a semantic markup language Publish information in an accessible way Accessible to machines Machines? Browser, Search Engines, Calendars, Cars,...

28. Basically anything

29. Publishing “semantic” content Using technologies such as: RDF : Resource Description Framework RDFa : RDF in Attributes OWL : Web Ontology Language

30. XML : eXtensible Markup Language

31. SPARQL : SPARQL Protocol and RDF Query Language

32. RDF 1-on-1 Everything can be represented as a resource

33. URI's uniquely name resources on the web Persons, Events, Autoparts, Departements,... Netsensei Namespace: xmlns:sensei = http://www.netsensei.nl URI = http://www.netsensei.nl#me CURIE = sensei:me

34. RDF 1-on-1 Netsensei sensei:me Properties: Foaf:name Foaf:birthday Foaf:mbox A resource can have properties

35. Those properties tell something about the resource

36. What is “FOAF” Friend-of-a-friend