4. Short History lesson
4
• WWW invented (http)
• Growth / Commercialisation
• Ubiquity of Google
• Limitations of html
• Structure via XML
• But no authority control
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3ATim_Berners-
Lee.jpg]Tim Berners-Lee [CC BY-SA 2.0
(http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0)], by Uldis Bojārs
(Flickr.), from Wikimedia Commons
5. Semantic web
5
• Invented by (you guessed it!)
• Adding meaning to links using
“typing”
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3ATim_Berners-
Lee.jpg]Tim Berners-Lee [CC BY-SA 2.0
(http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0)], by Uldis Bojārs
(Flickr.), from Wikimedia Commons
6. Typing
6
• Html links
• Semantic web links Subject – predicate - object
Jimmy Wales knows Angela Beesley
Jimmy Wales’s email address is jwales@bo
16. OEM-UK
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• Cataloguing of Historical Textbooks and Exam Papers
pre-1950
• Low-barrier cataloguing process for rapid retrospective
conversion
• Creating linked data between the new datasets
27. SPARQL demo
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SELECT * WHERE { ?s <http://purl.org/dc/terms/title> "Provision for children
with speech and language needs in England and Wales :facilitating
communication between education and health services /James Law ... [et al.]"
. } LIMIT 10
<uri>http://23.21.173.236/drupal/ioelibcat/187189</uri>
DESCRIBE <http://23.21.173.236/drupal/ioelibcat/187189>
Exporting your Symphony bibliographic metadata and contributing it to the development of the Semantic Web. This is a JISC project which runs at the Institute of Education until September 2012. A brief introduction to the semantic web will also be given as context.