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Categorisation of Semantic Web Applications

Authors:
Michael Martin
Sören Auer

Keywords: Categorisation Semantic Web Applications

Abstract:
The recent success of the Semantic Web in research, technology and standardisation communities has also resulted in a large variety of different standards, technologies and tools. This diversity and heterogeneity goes along with an increasing complexity in assessing, evaluating, selecting and combining different approaches for the development of Semantic Web Applications (SWA). With this work we aim at lowering the entrance barrier for the development and engineering of Semantic Web Applications by presenting a classification of SWAs according to the dimensions semantic technology depth, information flow direction, richness of knowledge representation, semantic integration and user involvement. This categorisation helps to establish and consolidate the conceptualisation with regard to the engineering of SWAs and facilitates the comparability of different SWAs. With its requirements and benefits, the categorisation of SWAs can also serve as a guideline for practitioners looking into the application of semantic technologies within their use cases. We give an overview over popular SWAs and present, with Vakantieland and LinkedGeoData, two semantic web applications with regard to the categorisation in detail.

Pages: 179 to 185

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2010

Publication date: October 25, 2010

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-4510

ISBN: 978-1-61208-104-5

Location: Florence, Italy

Dates: from October 25, 2010 to October 30, 2010