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What Would It Mean to Blog on the Semantic Web?

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The Semantic Web – ISWC 2004 (ISWC 2004)

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The phenomenon known as Web logging (“blogging”) has helped realize an initial goal of the Web: to turn Web content consumers (i.e., end users) into Web content producers. As the Semantic Web unfolds, we feel there are two questions worth posing: (1) do blog entries have semantic structure that can be usefully captured and exploited? (2) is blogging a natural way to encourage growth of the Semantic Web? We explore empirical evidence for answering these questions in the affirmative and propose means to bring blogging into the mainstream of the Semantic Web, including ontologies that extend the RSS 1.0 specification and an XSL transform for handling RSS 0.9x/2.0 files. To demonstrate the validity of our approach we have constructed a semantic blogging environment based on Haystack. We argue that with tools such as Haystack, semantic blogging will be an important paradigm by which metadata authoring will occur in the future.

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  1. MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, 32 Vassar Street, Cambridge, MA, 02139, USA

    David R. Karger

  2. IBM T. J. Watson Research Laboratory, 1 Rogers Street, Cambridge, MA, 02142, USA

    Dennis Quan

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  1. Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto,  

    Sheila A. McIlraith

  2. Institute of Computer Science, FO.R.T.H., Vassilika Vouton, P.O. Box 1385, GR 71110, Heraklion, Greece

    Dimitris Plexousakis

  3. AI Department, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands

    Frank van Harmelen

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Karger, D.R., Quan, D. (2004). What Would It Mean to Blog on the Semantic Web?. In: McIlraith, S.A., Plexousakis, D., van Harmelen, F. (eds) The Semantic Web – ISWC 2004. ISWC 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3298. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-30475-3_16

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