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Development Team: ICT For Libraries Semantic Web, Invisible Web and Deep Web
Development Team: ICT For Libraries Semantic Web, Invisible Web and Deep Web
Development Team: ICT For Libraries Semantic Web, Invisible Web and Deep Web
Development Team
Principal Investigator
Paper Coordinator
Dr. Jagdish Arora, Director
&
INFLIBNET Centre, Gandhinagar
Subject Coordinator
Content Writer
Dr Aditiya,
Content Writer Assistant Professor,
Banaras Hindu University
Paper Coordinator
Content Reviewer
Semantic Web, Invisible Web and Deep Web
I. Objectives
• To learn about major tools that are used for developing semantic web
1. Introduction
In the era of information explosion, information retrieval and management of
retrieved information and to point out the relevant information from the ocean
of information is a difficult task. To find out the exact information according to
the desired need over the Web is very difficult. To resolve the problems various
technologies are emerging everyday. In the same way the concept of semantic
web is one of the new ideas to improve our existing information retrieval
system using machines to reduce human efforts.
Semantic web is an effort of World Wide Web promoted by World Wide Web
Consortium to make information available on Web as machine-processable. It is
a concept which makes possible to organize available Web information
resources and to use them not only by syntax and structural methods but also by
the semantics’ on the concept. It is an abstract representation of World Wide
Web resources based on a framework known as RDF (Resource Description
Framework).
2. Semantic Web
The concept of Semantic Web has gone a long way since its inception. It is
visualized that application (search engines or intelligent agents) will not only
understand the semantics of the available information they would make devices
communicated as and when it is required. The promises are high with the
application of Semantic Web.
2.1 Definition
According to Tim Berners-Lee “Semantic web is an extension of current web in
which information is given well defined meaning ,better enabling computers
and people to work in cooperation.”
The term Semantics means study of meaning expressed by elements of a
language, characterizable as a symbolic system. Semantic web uses the
technologies which helps machines to understand information on the Web
including visible and invisible web (information which is available and indexed
in the database of search engine and information that cannot be reached by
search engines). It provides a better search result in more defined, meaningful
and understandable way. Semantic web can also link the databases and
applications along with the information contained by them, resulting a user in
getting the richest and relevant sources.
Thus, we can define the Semantic web as, the Web which can provide semantic
search results. In other words, it can understand the meaning of searched
linguistic element by analyzing it and show the results in defined way.
Tim Berners-Lee of CERN lab had invented the Web in 1989 and since then it
has gone a long way. Tim Berners-Lee’s original vision of the Web was much
more ambitious than the reality of the existing (syntactic) Web. Further it is Tim
Berners-Lee who visualized Semantic Web as “A new form of Web content that
is meaningful to computers will unleash a revolution of new possibilities”.
Historically the concept has emerged out of different versions of the web. The
good old early web which is also called as static web or Web 1.0 led to another
version of the Web which was more interactive and hence labled as Web 2.0.
The history of Semantic applications or the Semantic web is an extract of
development of Web. The Web 2.0 where the applications are connected to
each other with the use of web based ontologies and metadata is a primitive
kind of Semantic application which will further lead to the full blown Semantic
Web as Web 3.0. Tim Berners Lee further puts it as if the interaction between
person and hypertext could be so intuitive that the machine-readable
information space gives an accurate representation of the state of people's
thoughts, interactions, and work patterns, then machine analysis could become a
very powerful management tool.
11. References