Semantic Web. (use case)

I was reading, “Semantic Web Technologies – trends and research in ontology-based system”, and then i started to read some article on CNN.  While reading I started to notice that I wanted to learn more about the earthquakes that happend in china but I didnt wnat to go through google again.

So I started to draw up some plans during lunch to create a plugin for Firefox that would run through a document opened on the browser.  It will then use a natural language processor to find key words; places, events, etc etc.  I then decided to use the API provided by these folks to find related articles on the subject.  Im not sure if this has been done but I have yet to see it done.  yes I know there are keyword ad related scripts on some sites but i havent seen anything that would compliment articles im reading, movies im watching, or basically anything out there.

Time to get back to work.
Armando Padilla

Finally!

It came to me like a “oh my god” moment today! I know what my thesis will be about. The semantic web. Specifically, Semantic Web Services. This is why i chose the topic to pursue, yea i know the topic is still too broad but at least I have an understanding what im finally doing and why.

This is how it came about. I was given a task at work, its a prototype application using Flex and AIR and I started to look into how these particular technologies work with XML and web services. I started to look into RDF parsing and found that there is no clear RDF or OWL parser for Action Script 3, that got me thinking and soon had me looking over my class notes on the subject. That then brought me to where im at now, how these technologies work with web services.

The technology to work with web services isnt that difficult but the technology to have web services find each other to facilitate each others needs captures my attention. The underlining idea of self discovery on the computational level is interesting. How can you have a program locate and basically build itself to accomplish a task? In other words, how can one person locate two people across town, that dont know each but posses skills to complete a task, come together? Before the advent of the web, we used the phone book now we do a quick google search. This is the idea behind the semantic web service, from what i’ve gathered so far. (I might retract after i read a bit more on the subject)

Im going to focus on, first the technology RDF, OWL, see whats currently available and working in production, then im going to focus my attention on roadmaps on how to set up a very simple semantic web service (when i mean simple i mean simple). Finally im going to look at soa type of set ups for sws. (this roadmap might change dramatically as i start to dig deeper. Ill keep the Research section updated with my findind though and ill wrap up all the research related tutorials ive started aswell soon.)

Armando Padilla

Semantic Web – Possible Thesis.

A quarter or two ago I took a graduate class where we had to chose a topic that we possibly would enjoy looking into. Ashok and myself spent three months putting together a 58 page report on the Semantic Web. Its current state, current technology, its challenges, and its future.

If you do a quick google search on the semantic web RDF, OWL, and some other XML based junk will come up. All that technology is just to put meaning into all the documents published on the net, information that gadgets create so one day all that data can be combined to help machines help us. So the theory goes.

Here is the paper.
Semantic Web Paper – by Armando Padilla & Ashok Sahu