Title :
Elements of a National SemanticWeb Infrastructure--Case Study Finland on the Semantic Web
Author :
Hyvönen, Eero ; Viljanen, Kim ; Mäkelä, Eetu ; Kauppinen, Tomi ; Ruotsalo, Tuukka ; Valkeapää, Onni ; Seppälä, Katri ; Suominen, Osma ; Aim, O. ; Lindroos, Robin ; Känsälä, Teppo ; Henriksson, Riikka ; Frosterus, Matias ; Tuominen, Jouni ; Sinkkilä, Reett
Author_Institution :
Helsinki Univ. of Technol., Espoo
Abstract :
This article presents the vision and results of creating the basis for a national semantic Web content infrastructure in Finland in 2003-2007. The main elements of the infrastructure are shared and open metadata schemas, core ontologies, and public ontology services. Several practical applications testing and demonstrating the usefulness of the infrastructure are overviewed in the fields of eculture, ehealth, egovernment, elearning, and ecommerce.
Keywords :
Web services; meta data; ontologies (artificial intelligence); semantic Web; Finland; ecommerce; eculture; egovernment; ehealth; elearning; national semantic Web content infrastructure; open metadata; public ontology services; shared metadata; Computer vision; Electronic commerce; Electronic learning; Food technology; Libraries; Ontologies; Portals; Semantic Web; Testing; Web services;
Conference_Titel :
Semantic Computing, 2007. ICSC 2007. International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Irvine, CA
Print_ISBN :
978-0-7695-2997-4
DOI :
10.1109/ICSC.2007.106
