SemCards: A New Representation for Realizing the Semantic Web

Abstract. The Semantic Web promises increased precision in automated information sorting, searching, organizing and summarizing. Realizing this requires significantly more reliable meta-information than is readily available for basic human-readable data types today. Relying solely on hand-crafted ontologies and annotation, or solely on artificial intelligence techniques, seems less likely for success than a combination of the two. How this is best done, however, is far from obvious. We propose an intermediate ontological representational level we call SemCards that combines ontological rigour with flexible user interface constructs. SemCards are machine- and human-readable entities that allow non-experts to create and use semantic content with ease, while empowering machines to better assist and participate in the process. We have implemented the SemCard technology on the Semantic Web site Twine.com, which to date has a growing 250k subscribers and over 2 million monthly unique visi...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2009
• Where: ICCCI
• Authors: Kristinn R. Thórisson, Nova Spivack, James M. Wissner
• Keywords: ICCCI 2009, Internet Technology, Semantic Web, Semantic Web Site, User Interface