Opening Up Magpie via Semantic Services

Abstract. Magpie is a suite of tools supporting a ‘zero-cost’ approach to semantic web browsing: it avoids the need for manual annotation by automatically associating an ontology-based semantic layer to web resources. An important aspect of Magpie, which differentiates it from superficially similar hypermedia systems, is that the association between items on a web page and semantic concepts is not merely a mechanism for dynamic linking, but it is the enabling condition for locating services and making them available to a user. These services can be manually activated by a user (pull services), or opportunistically triggered when the appropriate web entities are encountered during a browsing session (push services). In this paper we analyze Magpie from the perspective of building semantic web applications and we note that earlier implementations did not fulfill the criterion of “open as to services”, which is a key aspect of the emerging semantic web. For this reason, in the pas...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2004
• Where: SEMWEB
• Authors: Martin Dzbor, Enrico Motta, John Domingue
• Keywords: Semantic Web, Semantic Web Applications, Semantic Web Browsing, SEMWEB 2004