[Ltg] LTG Seminar [Steve Cassidy, Sept. 13, E6A 357]

[Rolf Schwitter]

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LTG Seminar
 - see: http://www.clt.mq.edu.au/Events/Seminars.html

Monday, Sept 13, 2004 at 11am
Macquarie Uni, E6A 357
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Speaker: Steve Cassidy
Semantic Web

The Semantic Web is a term coined by Tim Berners-Lee for the 
next-generation World Wide Web which promotes sharing of machine 
readable data in the same way that the original web promotes sharing of 
human readable documents. If you want your calendar to be able to query 
my calendar, your car to be able to locate my office building, your 
inventory system to be able to find out about my products then you might 
want to be involved in the Semantic Web.

Underlying the Semantic Web are standards which allow publication of 
data of various forms and, importantly, ways of describing the `meaning' 
of this data. The buzzwords are: XML, RDF, DAML+OIL, Ontologies, etc. 
Semantic Web applications built upon these technologies are currently 
few and far between but the potential to exploit data interoperability 
both within an organisation and on the larger Web is clear.

This talk will give a broad outline of the underlying technologies and 
describe some nascent applications which rely on the ability to discover 
and share machine readable data on the internet. The talk overlaps 
substantially with my ICS Technology trends seminar on Monday evening.
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