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Web 3.0 emerges…

Jim HendlerTetherless World Professor of Computer and Cognitive Science

Assistant Dean of Information Technology and Web Science

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institutehttp://www.cs.rpi.edu/~hendler

@jahendler (twitter)

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• Semantic Web finding success even in tough market– Lots of small companies in the market: Altova… Zepheira (eg. C&P, Franz,

Intellidimension, Intellisophic, Ontology Works, Siderean, SandPiper, SiberLogic, TopQuadrant …)

– Web 3.0 new buzzword: Garlik, Freebase, Bintro, Siri, Talis, …– Semantic Search taking off - Powerset bought by Microsoft for over $100,000,000, twine

bough by EVRI, hakia, bing, T2, tiptop, …– Semantic match: classifieds (bintro), clinical studies (TrialX.com)

• Bigger players buying in– 2010 announcements at SemTech (June): Google, New York Times, Oracle, IBM, Facebook,

MS, …– 2008: Gartner identifies Corporate Semantic Web as one of three "High impact" Web

technologies– Tool market forming: AllegroGraph, TopBraid, Pellet2, …– O’Reilly “Programming the Semantic Web”

• Government projects in and across agencies– Recent open data announcements by UK and US

– UK in linked data format, US linked data = 6.4B triples so far– Projects/demos in EU, Japan, Korea, China, India…– SKOS uptake in govt (and private) libraries – cf. LOC lod

• Several "verticals" heavily using Semantic Web technologies– Health Care and Life Sciences – Financial services– Human Resources– Publishing/New Media– Sciences other than Life Science

• Virtual observatory, Geo ontology, …

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Linked Data (RDF, SPARQL)

Semantic Web (RDFS, owl)

Web 3.0

Web 2.0

Web 3.0 extends current Web applications using Semantic Web technologies and graph-based, open data.

This on the Web takes us into “Web 3.0”

Web (REST API)

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Semantic Search

IEEE Computer, Jan 2010; IEEE Computing Now, Feb 2010 (free)

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Semantic Search examples

T2 (twine.com) TipTop (feeltiptop.com)

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Semantic Search examples

RPI data-gov wiki

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Trialx.com

Save lives

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Bintro.com

Find Jobs

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Web 3.0 Applications

Lots More

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Data.gov and Semantic Web

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Data.gov.uk and Semantic Web

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Around the World

Sem Web efforts in all of these (only US and UK on site)

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The US/UK have a “friendly competition”

2010

“Bring it on Hendler” – Tim Berners-Lee, Inventor of the WWW and “Data Advisor” to data.gov.uk , twitter @timberners_Lee (20k followers), 4/2010

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UK Vocabulary Repository

• NONE!!!!