[...]...x CONTENTS 11 .5.2 BT Digital Library End-user Applications 11 .5.3 The BT Digital Library Architecture 11 .5.4 Deployment View of the BT Digital Library 11 .6 Future Directions References 2 51 252 255 255 257 12 Semantic Web: A Legal Case Study 12 .1 Introduction 12 .2 Profile of the Users 12 .3 Ontologies for Legal Knowledge 12 .3 .1 Legal Ontologies: State of the Art 12 .3.2 Ontologies of Professional... Data Mediation 13 .4.2 Process Mediation 13 .5 Standards and Ontologies in Telecommunications 13 .5 .1 eTOM 13 .5.2 SID 13 .5.3 Adding Semantics 13 .6 Case Study 13 .6 .1 Broadband Diagnostics 13 .6.2 The B2B Gateway Architecture 13 .6.3 Semantic B2B Integration Prototype 13 .6.4 Prototype Implementation 13 .7 Conclusion References 2 81 2 81 282 284 286 287 287 287 289 289 290 290 292 292 294 297 298 299 14 Conclusion... 12 .3.3 Benefits of Semantic Technology and Methodology 12 .4 Architecture 12 .4 .1 Iuriservice Prototype 12 .5 Conclusions References 259 259 260 262 263 265 267 272 272 278 278 13 A Semantic Service-Oriented Architecture for the Telecommunications Industry 13 .1 Introduction 13 .2 Introduction to Service-oriented Architectures 13 .3 A Semantic Service-orientated architecture 13 .4 Semantic Mediation 13 .4 .1. .. 1. 2 THE GOAL OF THE SEMANTIC WEB The Semantic Web and Semantic Web technologies offer us a new approach to managing information and processes, the fundamental principle of which is the creation and use of semantic metadata 1 See: http:/ /www.w3.org/20 01/ sw/ THE GOAL OF THE SEMANTIC WEB 3 For information, metadata can exist at two levels On the one hand, they may describe a document, for example a web. .. 290 292 292 294 297 298 299 14 Conclusion and Outlook 14 .1 Management of Networked Ontologies 14 .2 Engineering of Networked Ontologies 14 .3 Contextualizing Ontologies 14 .4 Cross Media Resources 14 .5 Social Semantic Desktop 14 .6 Applications 3 01 3 01 302 303 304 306 307 Index 309 Foreword Semantically Enabled Knowledge Technologies Toward a New Kind of Web Information technology has a surprising way of... services 5 See http://www.wsmo.org/ 8 INTRODUCTION 1. 7 DEVELOPING THE SEMANTIC WEB This book aims to provide the reader with an overview of the current state of the art in Semantic Web technologies, and their application It is hoped that, armed with this understanding, readers will feel inspired to further develop semantic web technologies and to use semantic web applications, and indeed to create their... next stage of the Web REFERENCES Antoniou G, van Harmelen F 2004 A Semantic Web Primer The MIT Press: Cambridge, Massachusetts Berners-Lee T 19 99 Weaving the Web Orion Business Books Berners-Lee T, Hendler J, Lassila O 20 01 The semantic web In Scientific American, May 20 01 Charlesworth I 2005 Integration fundamentals, Ovum Davies J, Fensel D, van Harmelen F (eds) 2003 Towards the Semantic Web: Ontology-Driven... key aspects of Semantic Web technologies, but also of prototype applications that offer a glimpse of how the Semantic Web will begin to take form in practice Thus, while many of the chapters deal with specific technologies such as those for Semantic Web services, metadata extraction, ontology alignment, and ontology engineering, the FOREWORD xiii case studies provide examples of how these technologies. .. Drucker P 19 99 Knowledge worker productivity: the biggest challenge California Management Review 41( 2):79–94 Fensel D, Hendler JA, Lieberman H, Wahlster W (eds) 2003 Spinning the Semantic Web: Bringing the World Wide Web to its Full Potential MIT Press: Cambridge, MA ISBN 0-262-06232 -1 Gruber T 19 93 A translation approach to portable ontologies Knowledge Acquisition 5(2) :19 9–220, http://ksl -web. stanford.edu/KSL_Abstracts/KSL92- 71. html... process, for example through the use of semantic descriptions for web services Current web services support interoperability through common standards, but still require considerable human interaction, for example to search for web services and then to combine them in a useful way Semantic web services, described in Chapter 10 , offer the possibility of automating web service discovery, composition and . Learned 18 5 9.6. Conclusion and Next Steps 18 6 References 18 7 10 . Semantic Web Services – Approaches and Perspectives 19 1 10 .1. Semantic Web Services – A Short Overview 19 1 10 .2. The WSMO Approach 19 2 10 .2 .1. . Knowledge Management 11 5 7 .1. Introduction 11 5 7.2. Ontology Usage Scenario 11 6 7.3. Terminology 11 7 7.3 .1. Data Qualia 11 9 7.3.2. Sorts of Data 12 0 7.4. Ontologies as RDBMS Schema 12 3 7.5. Topic-ontologies. production. Contents Foreword xi 1. Introduction 1 1 .1. Semantic Web Technologies 1 1.2. The Goal of the Semantic Web 2 1. 3. Ontologies and Ontology Languages 4 1. 4. Creating and Managing Ontologies 5 1. 5. Using Ontologies