What's happening in semantic web: and what FCA could have to do with it

  • Authors:

  • Pascal Hitzler

  • Affiliations:

  • Kno.e.sis Center, Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio

  • Venue:
  • ICFCA'11 Proceedings of the 9th international conference on Formal concept analysis
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

The SemanticWeb [27] is gaining momentum. Driven by over 10 years of focused project funding in the US and the EU, Semantic Web Technologies are now entering application areas in industry, academia, government, and the openWeb. The Semantic Web is based on the idea of describing the meaning - or semantics - of data on the Web using metadata - data that describes other data - in the form of ontologies, which are represented using logic-based knowledgerepresentation languages [26]. Central to the transfer of Semantic Web into practice is the Linked Open Data effort [7], which has already resulted in the publication, on the Web, of billions of pieces of information using ontology languages. This provides the basic data needed for establishing intelligent system applications on the Web in the tradition of Semantic Web Technologies. Despite considerable success and progress, the field of Semantic Web Technologies still requires considerable conceptual advances in order to come to its full potential [23,24,29]. Below, we briefly list some research challenges where Formal Concept Analysis (FCA) could contribute as a method, and list some of the past FCA-related work on these issues.