COMP 6703 eScience Project Commercial Semantic Web of Digital Library  Student : Yin Chen  Client/Technical Supervisor : Tom Worthington  Academic Supervisor :Peter Strazdins  Period : 2007 Semester 1  Date: 08 March 2006

Outline  Research Background  Why Semantic Web?  Technical Process of Semantic Wikipedia  Technologies  Initial Plan  Questions

Research Background  What’s Australasian Journal of Information Systems (AJIS)?  An international quality, peer reviewed journal covering innovative research and practice in Information Systems.

Research Background  Fixed geographic locations to use fixed database schemas.  Data are separated from the commercial and open source material on the web.

Why Semantic Web  Most information on the Web page was designed for human-to-human communication.  An extension of the current web well-defined meaning  Content is machine understandable (i.e. metadata).

Why Semantic Web (cont.)  Semantic Web – integrate library collection metadata with web based and commercial information, like Google or Amazon.

Semantic Wikipedia  A very successful implementation of semantic web technology *Highlight words jump *Edit page by source code *Submit a new page

Pages and Links

Connected by Relations

How it works

The Goal of My Project  Build up a prototype system A commercial relationship between the semantic web and Amazon online bookstore by semantic Mediawiki technology

Technologies  Metadata  XML  RDF - Resource Description Framework  OAI - Open Archive Initiative  Semantic MediaWiki  MySQL  PHP

Initial Plan  Week 3-4 Background Research  Week 5-6 Key Technology Research  Week 7-8 Modelling & Implementation  Week 9-10 Testing & debugging  Week Documentation  Week Finishing

Questions? Thank you!