Semantic Web

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Semantic Web

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Semantic Web

Introduction

Semantic webbing is a wonderful method through which students becomes able to know about the identification of ideas . Semantic webbing also enables students to understand different ideas and their relevance to important matters . Students and teachers develop diagrams that represent different concepts or s . With the help of semantic webbing students ' thinking power is increased . Students are encouraged to bring new ideas that can help them in learning more efficiently (Polloway Patton

, 1993 . Semantic webbing is becoming very popular among students and teachers because visual aids are utilized in this technique that catches attention of learners . When students get involved in the process of semantic webbing , a sort of web is produced . This web is a complex of several strands of ideas that students bring forward about a main All the ideas are related to each other

According to Hams and Sipay (1990 , semantic webbing not only assists students in assessing their prior knowledge , but also helps them to organize their ideas and integrate information in written work . Although the teacher selects the main idea , or concept for the semantic web , the students--with teacher assistance as necessary--generate the subordinate elements within the web . Additionally , it is up to the students , in either group or individual settings , to determine whether and in what ways a particular subordinate contribution belongs with and relates to the main concept . Semantic webs may take the form of various organizational patterns , including some kind of hierarchy depicting one word or a brief phrase . Semantic webbing has been shown to be more effective than traditional note taking or rereading material (Hams Sipay , 1990 however , this technique should be used in conjunction with other strategies to ensure the most success

Another central concept of the Semantic Web is that it should do more than simply fetch documents for human users to pore over , extract , cut and paste , and otherwise reformat to make them more precisely useful Instead , the system should use languages that the system itself can "understand " and act upon . In turn , that will enable a user to dispatch software agents to search the entire web for that precisely useful data (Cardoso Sheth 2003 ) Agents should also be able to process the data it finds as it prowls the web--using what it found at site A to direct it to site B . And while it 's at it , an agent should be able to make inferences from the data it finds . Example : if it 's dealing with a bank in a 9xxxx zip code , it can know that the bank is regulated by California codes and then go there to add new pertinent information that more fully satisfies the user 's request (Casati Shan 2002

Of course , not much of this "intelligent " behavior is possible today However , W3C has laid the groundwork , and the Semantic Web concept is rapidly attracting evangelists who see applications in business government , education , and in...