1. Zachary Cleaver
Semantic Web

2. What is the Semantic Web?
“Web of Data” similar to a database
Extension of the World Wide Web

3. Goal of the Semantic Web
Allow computers to “read”, understand , and interpret information (web pages, pictures, etc.) for us

4. How Does the SW Work?
Metadata, Resource Description Framework (RDF), Web Ontology Language (OWL), and Extensible Markup Language (XML).
“HTML describes documents and the links between them. RDF, OWL, and XML describe arbitrary things such as people, meetings, or airplane parts.”

5. Resource Description Framework
Anakin Skywalker is Luke Skywalker's father.

6. SPARQL Simple protocol and RDF Query Language
“SPARQL's purpose is to extract information from RDF graphs. It can look for data and limit and sort the results. One of the advantages of the RDF structure is that these queries can be very precise and get very accurate results.”

7. Let’s Buy a Movie!
Amazon, eBay, Walmart