It is becoming increasingly apparent that knowledge published via the Semantic Web (SW) and Linked Open Data (LOD) resources is typically valid w.r.t. some assumed context. The contextual information, however, is often left implicit and not explicitly indicated. What is more, the means offered by SW technologies to represent this type of knowledge and link it to the resource itself are rather limited. In this position paper we argue that more advanced means of treatment of context in the SW and LOD resources are needed. Contextual meta knowledge has to be explicitly represented and logically treated. We propose a set of properties that we think such a representation should have and finally we review the known existing approaches to contextual representation on the SW.
Context on the Semantic Web: Why and How
Bozzato, Loris;Homola, Martin;Serafini, Luciano
2012-01-01
Abstract
It is becoming increasingly apparent that knowledge published via the Semantic Web (SW) and Linked Open Data (LOD) resources is typically valid w.r.t. some assumed context. The contextual information, however, is often left implicit and not explicitly indicated. What is more, the means offered by SW technologies to represent this type of knowledge and link it to the resource itself are rather limited. In this position paper we argue that more advanced means of treatment of context in the SW and LOD resources are needed. Contextual meta knowledge has to be explicitly represented and logically treated. We propose a set of properties that we think such a representation should have and finally we review the known existing approaches to contextual representation on the SW.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
