Ontologies, Web 2.0 and Beyond : Ontologies, Web 2.0 and Beyond Tom Gruber TagCommons.org tomgruber.org
outline : outline situate ontologies in Web 2.0 and Semantic Web
characterizing the space of ontologies
Confluence of social and semantic web ontologies
Doug Engelbart, 1968 : Doug Engelbart, 1968 "The grand challenge is to boost the collective IQ of organizations and of society. "
Tim Berners-Lee, 2001 : Tim Berners-Lee, 2001 “The Semantic Web is not a separate Web but an extension of the current one, in which information is given well-defined meaning, better enabling computers and people to work in cooperation.” NY Times, Nov 2, 2006
Tim O’Reilly, 2006, on Web 2.0 : Tim O’Reilly, 2006, on Web 2.0 "The central principle behind the success of the giants born in the Web 1.0 era who have survived to lead the Web 2.0 era appears to be this, that they have embraced the power of the web to harness collective intelligence"
Web 2.0 is about The Social Web : Web 2.0 is about The Social Web diagram source: http://web2.wsj2.com/ 1 billion people connect to the Internet
100 million web sites
over a third of adults in US have contributed content to the public Internet. - 18% of adults over 65 source: Pew Internet and American Life Project via futureexpolporation.net
Killer App for Web 2.0: Wikipedia : Killer App for Web 2.0: Wikipedia logo source http://wikipedia.com
Is “Collective Intelligence” the wisdom of clouds? : Is “Collective Intelligence” the wisdom of clouds? http://flickr.com/photos/tags/
Roles for Technology : Roles for Technology capturing everything
storing everything
distributing everything
many-to-many communication
creating value from the data PCs, cameras, mobile phones
databases and cheap storage
Internet and Web
Internet, Email, and collaboration software
Web 1.0: ecommerce, search
Web 2.0: social software
Web 3.0: Semantic Web
Killer App for Web 3.0: “Collective Knowledge” Systems : Killer App for Web 3.0: “Collective Knowledge” Systems provide useful information
based on human contributions
augmented with structured data
from multiple, heterogeneous sources
integrated meaningfully
which gets better as more people participate. Adapted from http://tomgruber.org/writing/social-meets-semantic-web.htm
Place of Ontologies in the Semantic Web Stack : Place of Ontologies in the Semantic Web Stack from Tim Berners-Lee’s talk at XML2000 http://www.w3.org/2000/Talks/1206-xml2k-tbl/slide10-0.html
Space of Ontologies : Space of Ontologies Data
Modeling Terminologies & Taxonomies Formal Ontologies Folksonomies Cost to develop and maintain Computational Service
Interesting Correlations : Data
Models Terminologies & Taxonomies Formal Ontologies Folksonomies Interesting Correlations Cost to develop and maintain Computational Service Formality and structure
Expressiveness of representation
Level of granularity / detail Role of Computation
reasoning
retrieval
search
Breadth of intended use
data interop
language processing
semantic search
Example Ontologies : Data
Models Terminologies & Taxonomies Formal Ontologies Folksonomies Example Ontologies Cost to develop and maintain Computational Service del.icio.us WordNet Dublin Core BFO EngMath Gene Ontology
Ontology Design Methologies : Data
Models Terminologies & Taxonomies Formal Ontologies Folksonomies Ontology Design Methologies Social Political Engineering Fun Learning Legal
Confluences : Confluences Data
Models Terminologies & Taxonomies Formal Ontologies Folksonomies Cost to develop and maintain Power of Computational Service
What will the future look like? : What will the future look like? Graffiti art images from iStockphoto. To contact the author, see http://tomgruber.org/bio/contact.htm