From the web of data to a world of action

  • Authors:

  • Alan Dix;Giorgos Lepouras;Akrivi Katifori;Costas Vassilakis;Tiziana Catarci;Antonella Poggi;Yannis Ioannidis;Miguel Mora;Ilias Daradimos;Nazihah Md.Akim;Shah Rukh Humayoun;Fabio Terella

  • Affiliations:

  • Computing Department, Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK and Talis, Birmingham, UK;Department of Computer Science and Technology, University of Peloponnese, Tripolis, Hellas, Greece;Department of Informatics & Telecommunications, University of Athens, Athens, Hellas, Greece;Department of Computer Science and Technology, University of Peloponnese, Tripolis, Hellas, Greece;Dipartimento di Informatica e Sistemistica, Universita' di Roma "La Sapienza", Rome, Italy;Dipartimento di Informatica e Sistemistica, Universita' di Roma "La Sapienza", Rome, Italy;Department of Informatics & Telecommunications, University of Athens, Athens, Hellas, Greece;Escuela Politécnica Superior, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain;Department of Computer Science and Technology, University of Peloponnese, Tripolis, Hellas, Greece and Department of Informatics & Telecommunications, University of Athens, Athens, Hellas, Greece;Computing Department, Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK;Dipartimento di Informatica e Sistemistica, Universita' di Roma "La Sapienza", Rome, Italy;EXALTECH S.r.l., Rome, Italy

  • Venue:
  • Web Semantics: Science, Services and Agents on the World Wide Web
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

This paper takes as its premise that the web is a place of action, not just information, and that the purpose of global data is to serve human needs. The paper presents several component technologies, which together work towards a vision where many small micro-applications can be threaded together using automated assistance to enable a unified and rich interaction. These technologies include data detector technology to enable any text to become a start point of semantic interaction; annotations for web-based services so that they can link data to potential actions; spreading activation over personal ontologies, to allow modelling of context; algorithms for automatically inferring 'typing' of web-form input data based on previous user inputs; and early work on inferring task structures from action traces. Some of these have already been integrated within an experimental web-based (extended) bookmarking tool, Snip!t, and a prototype desktop application On Time, and the paper discusses how the components could be more fully, yet more openly, linked in terms of both architecture and interaction. As well as contributing to the goal of an action and activity-focused web, the work also exposes a number of broader issues, theoretical, practical, social and economic, for the Semantic Web.