Creating a Policy-Aware Web

In this chapter, we describe the motivations for, and development of, a rule-based policy management system that can be deployed in the open and distributed milieu of the World Wide Web. We discuss the necessary features of such a system in creating a “Policy Aware” infrastructure for the Web and argue for the necessity of such infrastructure. We then show how the integration of a Semantic Web rules language (N3) with a theorem prover designed for the Web (Cwm) makes it possible to use the Hypertext Transport Protocol (http) to provide a scalable mechanismfor the exchange of rules and, eventually, proofs for access control on the Web. We also discuss which aspects of the Policy Aware Web are enabled by the current mechanism and describe future research needed to make the widespread deployment of rules and proofs on the Web a reality.

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Creating a Policy-Aware Web

Web and Information Security ◽

10.4018/978-1-59140-588-7.ch001 ◽

2006 ◽

pp. 1-31 ◽

Cited By ~ 17

Author(s):

Daniel J. Weitzner ◽

Jim Hendler ◽

Tim Berners-Lee ◽

Dan Connolly

Keyword(s):

Semantic Web ◽

Management System ◽

World Wide ◽

Theorem Prover ◽

Future Research ◽

Policy Management ◽

Rule Based ◽

The World ◽

The Web ◽

Current Mechanism

In this chapter, we describe the motivations for, and development of, a rule-based policy management system that can be deployed in the open and distributed milieu of the World Wide Web. We discuss the necessary features of such a system in creating a “Policy Aware” infrastructure for the Web and argue for the necessity of such infrastructure. We then show how the integration of a Semantic Web rules language (N3) with a theorem prover designed for the Web (Cwm) makes it possible to use the Hypertext Transport Protocol (http) to provide a scalable mechanismfor the exchange of rules and, eventually, proofs for access control on the Web. We also discuss which aspects of the Policy Aware Web are enabled by the current mechanism and describe future research needed to make the widespread deployment of rules and proofs on the Web a reality.

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Knowledge Representation Technologies Using Semantic Web

Web Services ◽

10.4018/978-1-5225-7501-6.ch056 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 1068-1076

Author(s):

Vudattu Kiran Kumar

Keyword(s):

Semantic Web ◽

Crucial Role ◽

World Wide ◽

Global Information ◽

Semantic Technologies ◽

Semantic Web Technologies ◽

Web Technologies ◽

Knowledge Repositories ◽

The World ◽

The Web

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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Using Semantic Web Concepts to Retrieve Specific Domain Information from the Web

Intelligent Information Technologies and Applications - Advances in Intelligent Information Technologies ◽

10.4018/978-1-59904-958-8.ch012 ◽

2011 ◽

pp. 249-270

Author(s):

Rafael Cunha Cardoso ◽

Fernando da Fonseca de Souza ◽

Ana Carolina Salgado

Keyword(s):

Information Retrieval ◽

World Wide Web ◽

Semantic Web ◽

Web Sites ◽

World Wide ◽

Specific Domain ◽

New Concepts ◽

The World ◽

Domain Information ◽

The Web

Currently, systems dedicated to information retrieval/extraction perform an important role on fetching relevant and qualified information from the World Wide Web (WWW). The Semantic Web can be described as the Web’s future once it introduces a set of new concepts and tools. For instance, ontology is used to insert knowledge into contents of the current WWW to give meaning to such contents. This allows software agents to better understand the Web’s content meaning so that such agents can execute more complex and useful tasks to users. This work introduces an architecture that uses some Semantic Web concepts allied to Regular Expressions (REGEX) in order to develop a system that retrieves/extracts specific domain information from the Web. A prototype, based on such architecture, was developed to find information about offers announced on supermarkets Web sites.

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Knowledge Representation Technologies Using Semantic Web

Advances in Data Mining and Database Management - Web Data Mining and the Development of Knowledge-Based Decision Support Systems ◽

10.4018/978-1-5225-1877-8.ch009 ◽

2017 ◽

pp. 158-166

Author(s):

Vudattu Kiran Kumar

Keyword(s):

Semantic Web ◽

Crucial Role ◽

World Wide ◽

Global Information ◽

Semantic Technologies ◽

Semantic Web Technologies ◽

Web Technologies ◽

Knowledge Repositories ◽

The World ◽

The Web

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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The Semantic Web

Encyclopedia of Internet Technologies and Applications ◽

10.4018/978-1-59140-993-9.ch071 ◽

2008 ◽

pp. 505-511

Author(s):

Kevin Curran ◽

Gary Gumbleton

Keyword(s):

World Wide Web ◽

Semantic Web ◽

World Wide ◽

Software Agents ◽

Web Pages ◽

The World ◽

The Web ◽

Do So

Tim Berners-Lee, director of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), states that, “The Semantic Web is not a separate Web but an extension of the current one, in which information is given well-defined meaning, better enabling computers and people to work in cooperation” (Berners-Lee, 2001). The Semantic Web will bring structure to the meaningful content of Web pages, creating an environment where software agents, roaming from page to page, can readily carry out sophisticated tasks for users. The Semantic Web (SW) is a vision of the Web where information is more efficiently linked up in such a way that machines can more easily process it. It is generating interest not just because Tim Berners-Lee is advocating it, but because it aims to solve the problem of information being hidden away in HTML documents, which are easy for humans to get information out of but are difficult for machines to do so. We will discuss the Semantic Web here.

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FACILE: A Clean Interface for Design and Fabrication

Volume 6: 18th Computers in Engineering Conference ◽

10.1115/detc98/cie-5529 ◽

1998 ◽

Author(s):

Robert B. Jerard ◽

Stanley J. Cox

Keyword(s):

Machine Tools ◽

World Wide ◽

Automated Method ◽

Complex Process ◽

The World ◽

Milling Machines ◽

Clean Interface ◽

New System ◽

The Web ◽

Current Mechanism

Abstract Currently, it is possible to buy almost anything from books (Amazon.com) to airplane tickets (travelocity.com) using the world wide web. The purpose of this project is to explore the use of the web for the fabrication of mechanical prototype parts, i.e. parts that can be fabricated using standard machine tools like milling machines. The current mechanism for production of prototype parts requires a process of part description preparation, bidding, contract award, and finally fabrication and delivery of the part. This is a substantially more complex process than buying a book or an airplane ticket. In order to achieve “e-commerce” in this field it will be necessary to develop a “clean interface” between the design and fabrication of mechanical prototype parts. This requires an unambiguous description of the part along with an automated method for bidding on the job. A new system called FACILE (Fast Associative Clean Interface Language and Environment) has been proposed to meet this need.

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Semantic Web

Encyclopedia of Multimedia Technology and Networking ◽

10.4018/978-1-59140-561-0.ch130 ◽

2011 ◽

pp. 917-924 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Rui G. Pereira ◽

Mario M. Freire

Keyword(s):

World Wide Web ◽

Semantic Web ◽

World Wide ◽

Human Knowledge ◽

The World ◽

The Web

The World Wide Web (WWW, Web, or W3) is known as the largest accessible repository of human knowledge. It contains around 3 billion documents, which may be accessed by more than 500 million worldwide users. In only 13 years since its appearance in 1991, the Web suffered such a huge growth that it is safe to say there is no phenomenon in history that can compare to it. It reached such importance that it became an indispensable partner in the lives of people (Daconta, Obrst & Smith, 2003).

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Introduction to the Special Issue on Logic Programming and the Web

Theory and Practice of Logic Programming ◽

10.1017/s1471068407003341 ◽

2008 ◽

Vol 8 (3) ◽

pp. 247-248 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

MASSIMO MARCHIORI

Keyword(s):

World Wide Web ◽

Semantic Web ◽

Logic Programming ◽

World Wide ◽

Special Issue ◽

Knowledge Logic ◽

Logical Organization ◽

The World ◽

The Web ◽

Selection Of

The World Wide Web is nowadays the most famous and widespread information system. Its success is witnessed by its enormous size and rate of growth: however, the same success of the Web has brought to a situation where more sophisticated techniques are urgently needed to properly handle this mass of information. In this sense, the more ambitious plan for an evolution of a Web is the so called Semantic Web, envisioned by the inventor of the Web itself, Tim Berners-Lee. In this architectural vision, there is the need for further layers of semantics, properly enriching the data that now overflow the classic Web: ontologies, rules, logic, proofs, trust are all ingredients of this ambitious picture. Given these premises, it should not come as a surprise the fact that this evolution is bringing the Web closer and closer to another field, that since quite some time has been facing similar problems of logical organization of knowledge: logic programming. Early examples, like the Metalog system in the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), had shown that connecting logic programming and the Semantic Web was quite a natural and fruitful step: and in fact, the burst of research in Semantic Web developments has eventually started to touch, connect and reinterprete many topics that were and are mainstream of the logic programming area. We feel this is a necessary progression, as the Semantic Web, and more generally the Web of the future, has a lot to learn from research in the logic programming area. And, conversely, in these new scenarios there are lot of new applied problems that can be challenging and rewarding from a logic programming perspective. This calls for a tighter interaction between the Web and logic programming, which was the reason to motivate this special issue as well: gathering together a selection of the best contributions that could showcase the potential of the cross-breeding.

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A collaborative model for web archiving ephemeral art resources at the New York Art Resources Consortium (NYARC)

10.31229/osf.io/qeaw8 ◽

2017 ◽

Author(s):

Sumitra Duncan ◽

Karl-Rainer Blumenthal

Keyword(s):

New York ◽

World Wide ◽

Historical Record ◽

Future Research ◽

Web Archiving ◽

The World ◽

Historical Resources ◽

Digital Formats ◽

Ephemeral Art ◽

The Web

The vast expanse and volatility of art ephemera based on the World Wide Web pose significant threats to the completeness of the art historical record as sustained by art libraries. Towards its mission to enhance the resources available for current and future research through collaboration among leading museum libraries, the New York Art Resources Consortium (NYARC) collects, preserves, and provides access to art ephemera born in digital formats native to the web. It leverages its member institutions’ traditional collecting strengths and combined resources to establish an initial and model a permanently sustainable web archiving programme. This article introduces NYARC’s web archiving practices as they manifest at the principal stages in a typical web archive’s lifecycle, describes how each directly benefits from collaboration among its member libraries and external programme partners, and identifies opportunities for further art libraries and their consortia to participate in this important effort to serve and preserve at-risk art historical resources.

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