Generating and Querying Semantic Metadata and Ontologies

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Published on October 9, 2007 3:13:12 AM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1YhE9WVZ55c

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June 21, 2007

ABSTRACT

Semantic technologies aim at providing machine interpretable descriptions of information and services. Ontologies and related metadata provide the technological backbone for these semantic technologies that gain more and more relevance also in commercial settings, for example for information integration, search and retrieval.

The talk will discuss various recent developments in the area of ontology and metadata management. As a starting point we present Semantic Mediawiki - an extension of the well-established Mediawiki platform that runs Wikipedia - for the large-scale collaborative generation of semantic metadata. We also show how simple semantic...