Table of contents

Perspectives on Semantic Integration

Background

Semantic Integration

State of the art

Semantic Web Integration Machinery

The building block for semantic integration

Locating Subjects

Representing Subjects

Connecting Subjects

Assertion types

Example of an assertion type: Name

Conferred Properties

Discriminating Properties

Defining applications

RDF, Topic Maps and SWIM

RDF is a SWIM application

Topic Maps is a SWIM application

What RDF and Topic Maps have in common

OWL and SWIM

Next steps

Author: Michel Biezunski

E-mail: mb@coolheads.com

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