Proven technology supporting Semantic Web and Linked Data
Semaphore ontologies and classification can drive RDFa and manage SKOS vocabularies at enterprise scale.
The Semantic Web was defined as a conceptual idea of adding context and meaning to the World Wide Web to make it easier for a human to interact with and possible for a computer to interpret. It has no exact definition and is being driven by a number of steering groups and consortia. Terms like ’semantics’, ’metadata’, ’ontologies’ are applied liberally by researchers and practitioners, so a quick reference to the Smartlogic website will tell you there must be some cross-over.
This section describes how Semaphore relates to initiatives like Linked Data, Semantic Web and standards like SKOS and OWL.
To summarize where we fit:
Ontologies are important
For specific applications there will always be a place for a formalized Knowledge Organization Structure. Building this takes effort and needs tools.
To link data it needs to be tagged
If you have large volumes of existing untagged content, or need to ensure a reasonable level of consistency of tagging, you need to automate the content classification.
Delivering robust, scalable applications to potentially millions of users needs the right technology platform
While XML based standards are great at modeling the data, the application of this could need scalable, high speed indexes to avoid the potential bottlenecks incurred parsing large, disparate XML files.
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