Enabling the Semantic Web with Ready-to-Use Web Widgets

A lot of functionality is needed when an application, such as a museum cataloguing system, is extended with semantic capabilities, for example ontological indexing functionality or multi-facet search. To avoid duplicate work and to enable easy and cost-efficient integration of information systems with the Semantic Web, we propose a web widget approach. Here, data sources are combined with functionality into readyto-use software components that allow adding semantic functionality to systems with just a few lines of code. As a proof of the concept, we present a collection of general semantic web widgets and case applications that use them, such as the ontology server ONKI, the annotation editor SAHA and the culture portal CultureSampo.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2007
• Where: SEMWEB
• Authors: Eetu Mäkelä, Kim Viljanen, Olli Alm, Jouni Tuominen, Onni Valkeapää, Tomi Kauppinen, Jussi Kurki, Reetta Sinkkilä, Teppo Kansala, Robin Lindroos, Osma Suominen, Tuukka Ruotsalo, Eero Hyvönen
• Keywords: Ontological Indexing Functionality, Semantic Functionality, Semantic Web, SEMWEB 2007