Semantic Web tutorial abstract

Semantic Web is a concept that enables better machine processing of
information on the Web, by structuring documents written for the Web in
such a way that they become understandable by machines. This can be used
for creating more complex applications (intelligent browsers, more
advanced Web agents), global databases with the data from the Web, reuse
of information, etc. This tutorial explains all above, using both the
basic theory and the appropriate examples.

         Semantic modeling languages like the Resource Description Framework
(RDF) and topic maps employ XML syntax to achieve this objective.
New tools exploit cross domain vocabularies to automatically extract and
relate the meta information in a new context. Web Ontology languages like
DAML+OIL extend RDF with richer modeling primitives and provide a
technological basis to enable the Semantic Web. These concepts are
explained thru examples and case studies.

        Finally, the logic languages for Semantic Web are described (which
build on the top of RDF and ontology languages). They, together with
digital signatures, enable a web of trust, which will have levels of trust
for its resources and for the rights of access, and will enable
generating proofs for the actions and resources on the Web.