Semantic Web Dog Food

Presented at: 20th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW2011)

by Xi Bai

In the more dynamic environments emerging from ad hoc and peer-to-peer networks, our research has explored the extent to which Web-based knowledge sharing as well as community formation require automation to understand human-readable content in a more distributed manner. RDFa is a syntactic format which can leverage this issue by allowing machine-readable data to be easily integrated into XHTML Web pages. Although there is a growing number of tools and techniques for generating and distilling RDFa, comparatively little work has been carried out on publishing existing RDF data sets as an XHTML+RDFa serialization. This paper proposes a generic approach to integrating RDF data into Web pages using the concept of automatically discovered "topic nodes". RDFa≤ is a proof-of-concept implementation of this approach and provides an on-line service assisting users in generating and personalizing pages with RDFa. We provide experimental results that support the viability of our approach to generating Web documents such as FOAF-based online profiles as well as RDF vocabularies with little user intervention.

Addressing the RDFa Publishing Bottleneck was presented at this event.

Keywords: Semantic Web, World Wide Web

Resource URI on the dog food server: http://data.semanticweb.org/conference/www/2011/phd/addressing-the-rdfa-publishing-bottleneck

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