Information Sharing on the Semantic Web

✍ Scribed by Heiner Stuckenschmidt, Frank van Harmelen (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 2005
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 277
• Series: Advanced Information and Knowlegde Processing
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Aboutthebook The success of the information society The rapid progress of the “information society” in the past decade has been made possible by the removal of many technical barriers. Producing, storing, and transporting information in large quantities are no longer signi?cant problems. Producing on-line, digitized information is no longer a problem. Ever more of our commercial, scienti?c and personal information exchanges happen on-line in digital form. In the professional domain, near 100% of all o?ce documents areproducedindigitalform(evenifafterwardstheyaredistributedinpaper form), large parts of the scienti?c discourse are now taking place in digital form (with physics, computer science and astronomy taking a leading role). In the public domain, newspapers are available on-line, an increasing number of radio and television stations o?er their material on-line in streaming form and e-government is an important theme for public administration. Even in the personal area, information is rapidly moving on-line: sales of digital cameras are now higher then for analogue cameras, e-mail and on-line chat have become important channels for maintaining social relations and for personal entertainment the digital DVD is rapidly replacing the analogue video tape. Compact disk (itself already digital) is under serious pressure from on-line music in MP3 format from a variety of sources. In short: p- ductionofon-lineinformationisnowthenorminvirtuallyallareasofourlife. Storing such information in the required volumes is also no longer a problem.

✦ Table of Contents

Semantic integration....Pages 3-23
Ontology-based information sharing....Pages 25-44
Ontology languages for the Semantic Web....Pages 45-61
Ontology creation....Pages 65-83
Metadata generation....Pages 85-115
Retrieval and Integration....Pages 119-141
Sharing statistical information....Pages 143-165
Spatially-related information....Pages 167-183
Integration and retrieval systems....Pages 185-207
Modularization....Pages 211-230
Evolution management....Pages 231-241
Conclusions....Pages 245-254

✦ Subjects

Information Storage and Retrieval; Database Management; Information Systems Applications (incl.Internet); Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics); Electronic Commerce/e-business; Business Information Systems