Why the Semantic Web hasn't failed, and how we shouldn't fix it
David Millard
Learning Societies LabUniversity of Southampton
The Infamous Layer Cake
The Semantic Web will…
"...open up the knowledge and workings of humankind to meaningful analysis by software agents, providing a new class of tools by which we can live, work and learn together."
The Semantic Web , Tim Berners-Lee, James Hendler and Ora Lassila, Scientic American, May 2001
A Machine Readable Web
Sound familiar?
How do we do it?
Be a Semantic Extrovert!
Use Popular Ontologies (e.g. FOAF, SKOS)
Promote RDF REST Interfaces
Why should you do it?
Capturing Folksonomies?
Mapping Ontologies Automatically?
Because Web Literacy is changing e-learning
Building Brick by Yellow Brick
Build on existing practise
Demonstrate real advantage without real sacrifice
