Representing Knowledge in Semantic Cultural Web

Table of contents

• Representing Knowledge in Semantic Cultural Web
• Acknowledgements
• About the talk
• Content
• Once upon a time...
• The Web revolution in '90ties
• World Wide Web: the inception
• World Wide Web: the evolution
• I have a dream ...
• Driving the evolution of the Web
• W3C: long term goals
• Design Principles of the Web
• Decentralization and peer-to-peer architecture
• Content
• Cultural heritage applications: some issues
• Conceptual problems
• Implementation issues (summary)
• Links
• Dictionaries and authority files
• Using the Italian Authors Dictionary
• Navigating a thesaurus
• Temporal algebra
• Interaction metaphors
• Example of (historical) map interaction metaphor
• An example of (iconographic) association
• User interface
• Semantic interoperability (again)
• Document structures and ontologies
• Content
• Knowledge Management Process
• Facts and rules (1)
• Facts and rules (2)
• Searching the web
• Vocabularies and ontologies
• What do we need?
• Content
• From HTML to XML
• Characteristics of XML
• XML Schema Definition
• Some Advantages of Schemas
• Presenting information
• Internationalization
• A Common Architecture ...
• Towards a Semantic Web
• Resources and metadata
• What are Metadata?
• Metadata: the key concept
• What is needed for the Semantic Web
• The Semantic Web is ...
• The Semantic Web is not ...
• What is RDF?
• RDF Data Model: resources
• RDF Data Model RDF: properties
• RDF Data Model
• RDF Data Model RDF: graphical representation
• A simple example
• Property with a structured value
• A more complex statement:
• Containers
• Statements about statements
• Graphs and Webs: before RDF
• Graphs and Webs: after RDF
• Namespaces: a key in peer-to-peer architecture
• Namespaces: a key in peer-to-peer architecture (cont.)
• Merging RDF
• RDF Schemas
• Classes, Resources, ...
• Inferred properties
• Properties (Predicates)
• Binding RDF to an XML Resource
• Ontologies
• Ontologies (cont.)
• Classes in OWL
• Classes and Properties in OWL
• Property characterization
• Ontologies on the Web
• The layered architecture of Semantic Web
• The Semantic Web (summarizing)
• The Semantic Web is alive!
• Content
• Levels of knowledge representation
• Motivations for CIDOC CRM
• CIDOC CRM is ...
• CIDOC CRM terminology (partial)
• CIDOC CRM: reasoning about spatial information
• CIDOC CRM: reasoning about temporal information
• CIDOC CRM: termini ante quem post quem
• Content
• Some common sense ...
• Meeting the Semantic Web
• Difficulties
• Searching vs. linking
• A rough architecture sketch
• Next steps?
• The magic words ...
• Conclusion
• Thank you for your attention