Developing and Using a National Cross‐Domain Semantic Web Infrastructure
Eero Hyvönen · 2010
This chapter argues that the domain - independent World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) infrastructure and recommendations, such as the Resource Description Framework (Schema) (RDF(S)) and Web Ontology Language (OWL), a semantic cross - domain content infrastructure based on domain - specific metadata schemas and ontologies is needed, and presents the vision, results, and lessons learned when creating such an infrastructure on a national level in Finland. The novelty of this approach is based on two ideas. First, a system of mutually aligned core domain ontologies for metadata annotations is developed, based on existing thesauri and other vocabularies, and maintained collaboratively by groups of experts in different domains. Second, the Finnish Ontology Library Service ONKI framework has been designed and implemented for publishing ontologies as ready - to - use centralized services. Controlled Vocabulary Terms meta data; semantic Web