1. Actual Trends Semantic Web Lecture WS 2010/2011

2. What‘s next? W3C view: http://www.w3.org/http://www.w3.org Look at Semantic Web activity: http://www.w3.org/standards/semanticweb/ http://www.w3.org/standards/semanticweb/ Keywords: Linked Data * Vocabularies * Query * Inference * Vertical Applications

3. Linked Data Linked Data page at W3C: http://www.w3.org/standards/semanticweb/data http://www.w3.org/standards/semanticweb/data

4. Linked Data II What Tim Berners-Lee says (18.06.2006) http://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/LinkedData.html http://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/LinkedData.html Four principles: 1. Use URIs as names for things 2. Use HTTP URIs so that people can look up those names. 3. When someone looks up a URI, provide useful information, using the standards (RDF*, SPARQL) 4. Include links to other URIs. so that they can discover more things.

5. Linked Data III What Tim Berners-Lee says (2010 addition): Is your data 5-star? Conclusion: Linked data is essential to actually connect the semantic web. It is quite easy to do with a little thought, and becomes second nature. Various common sense considerations determine when to make a link and when not to.

6. Again: What‘s next? Google Epic: http://media.aperto.de/google_epic2015_de.html http://media.aperto.de/google_epic2015_de.html

7. Again: What‘s next? Google Epic: From November 2004 Facebook: launch 2004 Twitter: launch March 2006

8. Google Wave Short intro: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6pgxLaDdQw&feature=channel http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6pgxLaDdQw&feature=channel Long version: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_UyVmITiYQ&NR=1 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_UyVmITiYQ&NR=1