Semantic Technologies for Realising Decentralised Applications for the Web of Things

The World Wide Web (WWW) is global information medium, where users can read and write using computers over internet. Web is one of the services available on internet. The Web was created in 1989 by Sir Tim Berners-Lee. Since then a great refinement has done in the web usage and development of its applications. Semantic Web Technologies enable machines to interpret data published in a machine-interpretable form on the web. Semantic web is not a separate web it is an extension to the current web with additional semantics. Semantic technologies play a crucial role to provide data understandable to machines. To achieve machine understandable, we should add semantics to existing websites. With additional semantics, we can achieve next level web where knowledge repositories are available for better understanding of web data. This facilitates better search, accurate filtering and intelligent retrieval of data. This paper discusses about the Semantic Web and languages involved in describing documents in machine understandable format.

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Introduction

Geospatial Research ◽

10.4018/978-1-4666-9845-1.ch001 ◽

2016 ◽

pp. 1-31

Author(s):

M. G. Michael

Keyword(s):

Smart Phones ◽

The Internet ◽

Human Beings ◽

Internet Connectivity ◽

Web Of Things ◽

Qualitative And Quantitative ◽

Quantitative Studies ◽

International Attention ◽

Background Context ◽

The Web

When or how uberveillance will be implemented in its full-blown manifestation is still a subject for some intriguing discussion and a topic of robust disagreement, but what is generally accepted by most of the interlocutors is that an “uberveillance society” will emerge sooner rather than later, and that one way or another this will mean an immense upheaval in all of our societal, business, and government relationships. What is apparent from the numerous qualitative and quantitative studies conducted is that microchipping people is a discernibly divisive issue. If we continue on the current trajectory, we will soon see further divisions – not just between those who have access to the Internet and those who do not, but between those who subjugate themselves to be physically connected to the Web of Things and People, and those who are content enough to simply have Internet connectivity through external devices like smart phones, to those who opt to live completely off the grid. Time will only tell how we as human-beings will adapt after we willingly adopt innovations with extreme and irreversible operations. This introduction serves to provide a background context for the term uberveillance, which has received significant international attention since its establishment.

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An Overview and Technological Background of Semantic Technologies

Advanced Concepts, Methods, and Applications in Semantic Computing - Advances in Computational Intelligence and Robotics ◽

10.4018/978-1-7998-6697-8.ch001 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 1-21

Author(s):

Reinaldo Padilha França ◽

Ana Carolina Borges Monteiro ◽

Rangel Arthur ◽

Yuzo Iano

Keyword(s):

Semantic Web ◽

Knowledge Representation ◽

Data Representation ◽

Current Data ◽

The Internet ◽

Semantic Technologies ◽

Web Based ◽

Web 3.0 ◽

Technological Advances ◽

The Web

The Semantic Web concept is an extension of the web obtained by adding semantics to the current data representation format. It is considered a network of correlating meanings. It is the result of a combination of web-based conceptions and technologies and knowledge representation. Since the internet has gone through many changes and steps in its web versions 1.0, 2.0, and Web 3.0, this last call of smart web, the concept of Web 3.0, is to be associated with the Semantic Web, since technological advances have allowed the internet to be present beyond the devices that were made exactly with the intention of receiving the connection, not limited to computers or smartphones since it has the concept of reading, writing, and execution off-screen, performed by machines. Therefore, this chapter aims to provide an updated review of Semantic Web and its technologies showing its technological origins and approaching its success relationship with a concise bibliographic background, categorizing and synthesizing the potential of technologies.

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