Notes from the Information Integration Workshop

Information Integration and the Semantic Web

Tim Finin, Li Ding, and Anupam Joshi

October 26, 2006

This short position paper describes the role that the Semantic Web can play in information integration and how the Swoogle Semantic Web search engine can help. The Semantic Web vision is to develop a Web of data. Independent agents (people and programs) publish information on the Web using RDF, a simple, common representation language with well-defined semantics. The documents represent ontologies (conceptual models) or data. Ontologies are machine-interpretable definitions of classes and properties identied with unique URIs. Data documents use terms dened in ontologies to materialize RDF graphs, making assertions about Web resources, again identified by unique URIs. This approach provides a good foundation for publishing data designed for integration.

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Tags: ai, ecoinformatics, information integration, ontology, owl, rdf, semantic web, spire, swoogle

Type: InProceedings

Publisher: University of Pennsylvania

Note: Workshop site

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