Semantic Web Glossary

By Jack Krupansky

These are terms that are encountered when reading about the Semantic Web. Initially I will simply gather the list of terms, but gradually I will flesh out meaningful but clear definitions.

Absolute URI
Absolute URI Reference
Application Data - Machine Processable Information
Assertional Logic
Attribute
ATOM
Automatic Composition of Semantic Web Services
Axiom
Axiom Annotations
Blank Node
Canonical URI
Choreography
Class - group of resources
Class Extension
Code List
Code List Representation
Comment - human-readable description of a resource
Concept
Conceptual Graph
Conceptual Model
Conditional Statement
Consensual Knowledge
Context-Aware Intelligent Agent
Context Free Identifier
Controlled Structured Vocabularies
Controlled Vocabulary
Cool URI
Corpora
CURIE - Compact URI
Data
Datatype
Datatype URI
Default Namespace
Description Resources (DRs)
Descriptive
Document
Document Structure
DRs - Description Resources
DTD
Dublin Core
Element
Emergent Semantics
Entailment
Entity
Enumerated Values
Evolution
Evolution in Vocabularies
Expressive Knowledge Representation
Extensible Markup Language (XML)
Facet
FOAF
Folksonomy
Formal Concept Analysis and Ontologies
Formal Semantics
Foundation Ontology
Fragment Identifier
Generic Code List
Generic Code List Representation
Genericode
Geo Location
Gleaning Resource Descriptions from Dialects of Languages (GRDDL)
Graph-Based Data Model
Graph-Oriented Reification
Graph Provenance
Graph URI
GRDDL - Gleaning Resource Descriptions from Dialects of Languages
Human Experience Representation
Hypermedia Semantics
Hypertext
Hypertext Semantics
Identity
Inference
Inference Web
Inferencing Engines
Information
Information Evolution
Information Reuse and Integration (IRI)
Informational
Infrastructure for the Semantic Web
Instance of a Class
Intelligent Software Agent
Intelligent Store - Intelligent Triple Store
Intelligent Triple Store
Interlinking of Resources with Semantics (IRS)
IRI - Information Reuse and Integration
IRS - Interlinking of Resources with Semantics
Justification Information
Layered Vocabularies
Lexicon
Literal Graphs
Literal Value - RDF Literal
IRI - Internationalized Resource Identifier
Knowledge Acquisition
Knowledge Discovery
Knowledge-Intensive Applications
Knowledge Mining
Knowledge Provenance Infrastructure
Knowledge Reengineering
Knowledge Representation
Knowledge Reuse
Knowledge Evolution
Label - human-readable form of a resource name
Language Tagging
Linked Data
Machine Processable Information - Application Data
Meaning
Meta Assertion
Metadata
Metadata Management
Metadata Store
Meta-Knowledge
METEOR-S
Microformat
MIME Type
Mobile Semantic Web
Model-Theoretic Semantics
Multimedia Semantics
N3 - Notation3
Named Components
Named Graphs
Namespace
Negated Statement
Negative Property Assertion
Non-Ontological Resource
Normal Form C - Normalization Form C - Unicode Normalization Form C
Normalization Form C - Normal Form C - Unicode Normalization Form C
Normative
Notation3 (N3)
Object - object of an RDF statement
Object of an RDF Statement
Ontological Resources
Ontology
Ontology Axioms
Ontology-Based Information Extraction and Retrieval
Ontology Design Pattern
Ontology Design Pattern Extraction
Ontology Design Pattern Reuse
Ontology Development Tools
Ontology-Driven databases
Ontology Editor
Ontology Engineering
Ontology Harvesting on the Web
Ontology Mapping
Ontology Mapping Systems
Ontology Matching
Ontology Merging
Ontology-Based Tools
Open Data
OWL - Web Ontology Language
OWL DL
OWL DL Compliant
OWL Full
OWL Lite
OWL-S
Plain Literal
PML - Proof Markup Language
POWDER - Protocol for Web Description Resources
Populating Ontologies
Populating the Semantic Web
Predicate - predicate of an RDF statement
Predicate of an RDF Statement
Privacy
Proof Markup Language (PML)
Property - RDF Property
Property of a Triple
Proposition
Protocol for Web Description Resources (POWDER)
Provenance
Provenance Information
QName - Qualified Name
RDB2RDF - Relational Database to RDF Mapping
RDF - Resource Description Framework - a framework for representing information in the Web
RDF Alternative Container
RDF Application
RDF Auth - RDFAuth
RDF Bag Container
RDF Collections
RDF Containers
RDF Data
RDF Datatype
RDF Document
RDF Graph - collection of RDF triples
RDF Graph Merge
RDF Instance
RDF Integration
RDF Literals
RDF Model Theory
RDF Primer
RDF Properties
RDF Reification
RDF Repositories
RDF Scripting
RDF Semantics
RDF Sequence Container
RDF Serialization Format
RDF Statement
RDF Test Cases
RDF Triple - RDF statement of subject, predicate, and object (all RDF URI references or blank nodes)
RDF URI Reference
RDF Vocabulary
RDF Vocabulary Description Language (RDF Schema, RDFS)
RDFa
RDFAuth - RDF Auth
RDF-izing Existing Content
RDF-izing Existing Web Content
RDFS - RDF Schema - RDF Vocabulary Description Language
Reasoning Engine
Reference
Reification
Reification Graph
Reified Statement
Relational Database to RDF Mapping (RDB2RDF)
Relative URI
Relative URI Reference
Reputation
Resource - anything described by RDF
Resource Description Format (RDF)
RIF
Role
RSS
Rules
SA-REST
SAWSDL - Semantic Annotations for WSDL
Scalability
Scalable Reasoning
Schema
Schema URI
Schema Subset
Security
Semantic Agent Systems
Semantic Annotations for WSDL (SAWSDL)
Semantic Applications
Semantic Data Models
Semantic Dataspaces
Semantic Grid
Semantic Grid Services
Semantic Information Retrieval
Semantic Integration
Semantic Interoperability
Semantic Metadata
Semantic Metadata Management
Semantic Middleware
Semantic Multimedia Management
Semantic Query Processing
Semantic Querying
Semantic SOA
Semantic Technologies
Semantic Theory
Semantic Web
Semantic Web Applications
Semantic Web Architectures
Semantic Web Architectures for Enterprises
Semantic Web-Based Data Integration
Semantic Web Browser
Semantic Web Frameworks
Semantic Web Mining
Semantic Web Ontologies
Semantic Web Publishing
Semantic Web Publishing Vocabulary
Semantic Web Resources
Semantic Web Rule Technologies
Semantic Web Scripting
Semantic Web Search Engine
Semantic Web Services (SWS)
Semantic Web Services Composition
Semantic Web Services Discovery
Semantic Web Services Matchmaking
Semantic Web Services Ontologies
Semantic Web Standards
Semantic Web Tools
Semantic Web Vision
Semantic Wiki
Semantic-Enriched Mashups
Semantic-Enriched Web Portals
Semantics
Semantics for Web Services
Service Composition
Service Discovery
Simple Graph-Based Data Model
Simple Knowledge Organization System (SKOS)
SKOS - Simple Knowledge Organization System
SOAP
Social Interactions
Social Semantic Systems
Social Web
Social Web Applications
Socially-Created Content
Socially-Created Content Bases
Socially-Created Data
Software Agent
SPARQL
Stability
Statement - RDF Statement
Structured Controlled Vocabulary
Subclass
Subject - subject of an RDF statement
Subject of an RDF Statement
SWS - Semantic Web Services
SWS Composition - Semantic Web Services Composition
Tagging
Taxonomy
Thesaurus
Top-Level Ontology
Triple - RDF Triple
Triple Graph
Triple Store
Trust
Trust Information
Typed Literal
UDDI
Unicode
Unicode Normal Form C - Unicode Normalization Form C - Normal Form C
Unicode Normalization Form C - Unicode Normal Form C
Unicode Normalization Forms
Unicode Strings
Uniform Resource Identifier (URI)
Upper-Level Ontology
URI - Uniform Resource Identifier
URI Reference
URL
Value Space (of a Datatype)
Vocabulary
Vocabulary Entailment
W3C
Web
Web of Data
Web Ontology Language (OWL)
Web Ontology Languages
Web Service
Web Service Composition
Well-Founded Deductions
Wisdom
WSDL
WSDL-S
WSMO
XML - Extensible Markup Language
XML Content
XML Literal
XML Literal Value
XML-NS - Namespaces in XML
XML Query language (XQuery)
XML Serialization Syntax
XPath - XML Path Language
XQuery - XML Query language
XQuery Update Facility
XSL - Extensible Stylesheet Language
XSLT - XSL Transformations
XTM - XML Topic Maps

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Updated: March 26, 2008 08:23:47 AM -0500