COURSE IS635 Selected Topics

Dr. Laila Abdel Latif

Report 01: Web & SWOOGLE
Presented by: Ahmed Samy

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Web
The World Wide Web is an important part of the internet; we can define it as a techno-social
system to interact humans based on technological networks.

Web 0.0 Developing the internet

The Advanced Research Projects Agency Network (ARPANET) was an early packet switching
network and the first network to implement the protocol suite TCP/IP. Both technologies became
the technical foundation of the Internet.

Web 1.0 The shopping carts & static web

According to Tim Berners-Lee (known as the inventor of the World Wide Web) the first
implementation of the web, representing the Web 1.0, could be considered as the read-only
web. In other words, the early web allowed users to search for information and read it. There
was very little in the way of user interaction or content contribution.
Examples: Encyclopedia, Online dictionaries, Personal web pages, Grammar.com, Web pages of
universities.

Web 2.0 The writing and participating web

The Web 2.0 appears to be a welcome response to a web users demand to be more involved in
what information is available to them. The year 1999 marked the beginning of a Read-WritePublish era with notable contributions from LiveJournal (Launched in April, 1999) and Blogger
(Launched in August, 1999). Web 2.0 examples are Twitter, YouTube, Flickr and Facebook.
Examples: Wikipedia, social networks, Blogs, online quizzes, RSS and XML.

Web 3.0 The semantic executing web

Tim Berners-Lees explanations, the Web 3.0 would be a read-write-execute web. Web 3.0 is a
semantic markup and web services.
Examples: Personalization, Online games, Natural language search, Data-mining, Machine
learning, Artificial intelligence technologies.

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Web 4.0
Web 4.0 is characterized as the WebOS - the entire web being a single operating system where
information flows from any one point to any other, an age of connected data (Big Data, Open
Data and Personal Data). Web adapts to its mobile surroundings. Web 4.0 connects all devices in
the real and virtual world in real-time. Google Driverless cars, the smart grid to run home
appliances from electric vehicle batteries. Examples:

Web 5.0- Open, Linked and Intelligent Web (Emotional Web)

Web 5.0 will be about a linked web that communicates with us as we communicate with each
other (personal assistant). Web 5.0 is a cooperative web. This Web will be very powerful and
fully executing. Web 5.0 will be about the (emotional) interaction between humans and
computers. One example of this is www.wefeelfine.org, which maps emotions of people. With
headphones on, users will interact with content that interacts with their emotions or changes in
facial recognition.

Semantic Web
Semantic Web perceive a Web with a meaning, through searching, aggregating and combining of
the Web's information to access meaningful and accurate information interlinked data.
Examples: Facebook Graph, Google Knowledge Graph.

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Swoogle Semantic Web Search Engine

http://swoogle.umbc.edu

Swoogle & Google search results

Swoogle is a search engine for the Semantic Web on the Web. Swoogle crawl the World Wide
Web for a special class of web documents called Semantic Web documents, which are written in
RDF. Currently, it provides the following services to the following services:
Search Semantic Web ontologies
Search Semantic Web instance data
Search Semantic Web terms
Provide metadata of Semantic Web documents.
Archive different versions of Semantic Web documents

Swoogle crawl the semantic web

Swoogle adopts a cross approach to collect the Semantic Web, including manual submission,
Google-based meta-crawling, limited HTML crawling and RDF crawling.

Documents are indexed by Swoogle

Swoogle have indexed over 1.4 million Semantic Web documents and 290 million triples, and
daily updates found at this page.

Semantic Web
According to the W3C, "The Semantic Web provides a common framework that allows data to
be shared and reused across application, enterprise, and community boundaries".

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Ontology
In computer science and information science, an ontology is a formal naming and definition of
the types, properties, and interrelationships of the entities that really or fundamentally exist for a
particular domain of discourse.

Swoogle architecture
Swoogles architecture can be broken into four major components: SWD discovery, metadata
creation, data analysis, and interface.

Swoogle is a crawler based indexing and retrieval system for Semantic Web
Swoogle crawls and discovers documents written in RDF, OWL
Swoogle classifies a Semantic Web Document (SWD) as:
Semantic Web Ontology (SWO) Defines new terms
Semantic Web Databases (SWDB) Makes assertions about individuals

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