An introduction to the Semantic Web for Museums

The semantic web: Contents

Web Futures

Web futures: Other Developments

Web Futures: Internet Ubiquity.

"Problems with the current Web"

Problems: A Digital Object

Problems: the worst things about today’s web?

Problems: how many logins do you have?

Some Web Issues For Museums

"Definitions and goals."

The Semantic Web

W3C Definition

The Building Blocks

What the Semantic Web Will Require

Boxes And Arrows – No Clouds!

W3C: Current Semantic Web Work (2006)

 W3C: Semantic Web RoadMap

1. XML

XML Languages for Describing Content

2. RDF: Resource Description Framework

3. Ontologies - OWL

Brainbreak - FenFire

Definitions and Properties of an Ontology

How Will Ontologies Be Used In The Semantic Web?

A lot of talk…

 W3C: Semantic Web RoadMap

Higher layers of the Roadmap

Long Term: Agents

Visual navigation of ontology  (Sculpteur)

Boxes, arrows – and Acronyms

"Q."

"Steps along the way"

Short Term: some current applications

Haystack (MIT) an ‘RDF-PIM’

Medium Term: e.g. 'smart links'

Magpie IE plugin (Open University)

"So nothing practical even yet"

An aside? The Web 2.0 tag cloud or ‘folksonomy’

Web 2.0: the Web as Application platform

AJAX

Social Tagging (folksonomies)

RSS

Web2.0 and the Semantic Web

"What has the cultural sector..."

We Have A Role.

Infrastructure : The CIDOC Conceptual Reference Model

Portal example: Sculpteur

Richard Light
Museum thesauri in Topic Maps

VICODI – ‘Visual Contextualization of Digital Content’

VICODI – powered (http://www.eurohistory.net/Index.do)

Finnish Museums on the Semantic Web

Finnish Museums on the Semantic Web

Finnish Museums on the Semantic Web

Finnish Museums on the Semantic Web

Swed-E

First generation sites

Coda: Reality Check

Nay-sayers?

Then it’s impossible?

Who will use it?

Conclusions for Museums

Further Reading

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