Implementing web of data with VWBE & H2X
Chun-Hsiung Tseng · 2012
Today, the explosive amount of information on the Web has become the major challenge for Web searchers. Despite the improvements of search engine technologies, searching for specific information is sometimes still an uneasy task. There are two major problems: first, the relatedness of information is not handled by search engines, and second, HTML is a presentation-oriented language, not an information-oriented one. The former issue results in inconvenience. Result list from most modern search engines contain standalone Web pages, however, multiple Web pages can be needed to solve a Web user's request. On the other hand, the latter issue results in difficulties for processing the returned data. Thinking of the Web as a huge set of databases, a more efficient approach for accessing data than the current search engine is needed. In this paper, a mechanism and implementation based on the author's previous work, H2X and VWBE, to address these issues is proposed. The result is a better framework for realizing the concept of Web of data.