Professional Documents
Culture Documents
On HTML
▫ Web content is currently formatted
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An HTML Example
<h1>Agilitas Physiotherapy Centre</h1>
Welcome to the home page of the Agilitas Physiotherapy Centre. Do
you feel pain? Have you had an injury? Let our staff Lisa Davenport,
Kelly Townsend (our lovely secretary) and Steve Matthews take care
of your body and soul.
<h2>Consultation hours</h2>
Mon 11am - 7pm<br>
Tue 11am - 7pm<br>
Wed 3pm - 7pm<br>
Thu 11am - 7pm<br>
Fri 11am - 3pm<p>
But note that we do not offer consultation during the weeks of the
<a href=". . .">State Of Origin</a> games.
A Better Representation
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<treatmentOffered>Physiotherapy</treatmentOffered>
<companyName>Agilitas Physiotherapy Centre</companyName>
<staff>
therapist Lisa Davenport</therapist>
<therapist>Lisa Davenport /therapist
<therapist>Steve Matthews</therapist>
<secretary>Kelly Townsend</secretary>
</staff>
</company>
Explicit Metadata
• This representation is far more easily
processable by machines
Ontologies
• The term ontology originates from philosophy
•
• The study of the nature of existence
An Inference Example
prof(X) → faculty(X)
faculty(X) → staff(X)
prof(michael)
Software Agents
• Software agents work autonomously and
proactively
▫ They evolved out of object oriented and
component-based programming
• 2nd generation
▫ enabled enormous amounts of information available,
available in
human-readable form
Web User
use
Query
Service Push Push
Agent
Profile
Document Pull Pull Preference
• (UL : A language that expresses logical inferences made using rules and
information such as those specified by ontologies.)
Where is cook?
Cook is in Missouri
Proof ?
Proof, doubts? Online Services
No
Semantic Web Technologies
SOFTWARE AGENTS
Agents will be greatly
facilitated by semantic content
on the Web.
Assignment # 1
• In their paper titled “The Semantic Web” Time
Berners-Lee
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a possible use of the Semantic Web. In your groups:
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• Deadline:
▫ Friday
y 16th January
y 2008
Assignment No 1