SEAL - A Framework for Developing SEmantic Web PortALs

  • Authors:
  • Alexander Maedche;Steffen Staab;Nenad Stojanovic;Rudi Studer;York Sure

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-;-;-

  • Venue:
  • BNCOD 18 Proceedings of the 18th British National Conference on Databases: Advances in Databases
  • Year:
  • 2001

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Abstract

The core idea of the Semantic Web is to make information accessible to human and software agents on a semantic basis. Hence, web sites may feed directly from the Semantic Web exploiting the underlying structures for human and machine access. We have developed a generic approach for developing semantic portals, viz. SEAL (SEmantic portAL), that exploits semantics for providing and accessing information at a portal as well as constructing and maintaining the portal.In this paper, we discuss the role that semantic structures make for establishing communication between different agents in general. We elaborate on a number of intelligent means that make semantic web sites accessible from the outside, viz. semantics-based browsing, semantic querying and querying with semantic similarity, and machine access to semantic information at a semantic portal. As a case study we refer to the AIFB web site -- a place that is increasingly driven by Semantic Web technologies.