Bibliographic Ontology Specification
D'Arcus, B. & Giasson, F.
The Bibliographic Ontology Specification provides main concepts and properties for describing citations and bibliographic references (i.e. quotes, books, articles, etc) on the Semantic Web.
Geographical Linked Data: The Administrative Geography of Great Britain on the Semantic Web
Goodwin, J.; Dolbear, C. & Hart, G.
Ordnance Survey, the national mapping agency of Great Britain, is investigating how semantic web technologies assist its role as a geographical information provider. A major part of this work involves the development of prototype products and datasets in RDF. This article discusses the production of an example dataset for the administrative geography of Great Britain, demonstrating the advantages of explicitly encoding topological relations between geographic entities over traditional spatial queries. We also outline how these data can be linked to other datasets on the web of linked data and some of the challenges that this raises.
A conversion process from Flickr tags to RDF descriptions
Maala, M. Z.; Delteil, A. & Azough, A.
The recent evolution of the Web, now designated by the term Web 2.0, has seen the appearance of a huge number of resources created and annotated by users. However the annotations consist only in simple tags that are gathered in unstructured sets called folksonomies. The use of more complex languages to annotate resources and to define semantics according to the vision of the Semantic Web, would improve the understanding by machines and programs, like search engines, of what is on the Web. Indeed tags expressivity is very low compared to the representation standards of the Semantic Web, like RDF and OWL. But users appear to be still reluctant to annotate resources with RDF, and it should be recognized that Semantic Web, contrary to Web 2.0, is still not a reality of today’s Web. One way to take advantage of Semantic Web capabilities right now, without waiting for a change of the annotation usages, would be to be able to generate RDF annotations from tags. As a first step toward this direction, this paper presents a tentative to automatically convert a set of tags into a RDF description in the context of photos on Flickr. Such a method exploits some specificity of tags used on Flickr, some basic natural language processing tools and some semantic resources, in order to relate semantically tags describing a given photo and build a pertinent RDF annotation for this photo.
From SHIQ and RDF to OWL: the making of a Web Ontology Language
Horrocks, I.; Patel-Schneider, P. F. & van Harmelen, F.
The OWL Web Ontology Language is a new formal language for representing ontologies in the Semantic Web. OWL has features from several families of representation languages, including primarily Description Logics and frames. OWL also shares many characteristics with RDF, the W3C base of the Semantic Web. In this paper, we discuss how the philosophy and features of OWL can be traced back to these older formalisms, with modifications driven by several other constraints on OWL. Several interesting problems have arisen where these influences on OWL have clashed.