A NEW TREND IN DATA

WAREHOUSING

ABSTRACT:

The problem with majority of data on the web is that it is difficult to use on a
large scale, because there is no global system for publishing data in such a way as it can
be easily processed by anyone. Everyone using the WWW has the problem that who
can you trust to send you e-mails; how can I know s u r e if a transaction really
occurred. So the semantic web can be seen as a huge engineering solution… but it is
more than that.
The Semantic Web is a mesh of information linked up in such a way as to be
easily procesable by machines, on a global scale. The Semantic Web provides a common
framework that allows data to be shared and reused across application. It is a collaborat-
ive effort led by W3C. The Semantic Web is about common formats for integration and
combination of data drawn from diverse sources, where the original Web mainly
concentrates on the interchange of documents.
The Semantic Web approach instead develops languages for expressing
information in a machine processable form. This development of Semantic Web is

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occurring in atleast two areas: from the infrastructural, all-embracing, position as
espoused by the W3C/MIT and other academically -focused organizations.
Our paper describes the details of Semantic Web and its need, ontologies, OWL,
semantic web services and its applications- mainly FOAF which provides template
for metadata about the people and their interests. However Semantic Web
technologies are still very much in their infancies, and the future of the project in general
appears to be bright.

1) Implementation and platform

independence crucial and
1.PROBLEMS WITH THE 2) World Wide Web consortium

WWW: the most prominent.

Google –Market Cap: 72.45 $
Data that is generally hidden
In comparison shopping also, the
away in HTML files is often useful in
Market cap is 502.70$.Also in WWW
some contexts, but not in others. The
who can you trust to send you e-mail and
problem with the majority o f data on the
how can we know for sure if a
web that is in this form at the moment is
transaction really occurred.
that it is difficult to use on large scale,
Problem Domains:
because there is no global system for
The general Web
publishing data in such a way as it can
- Data-mining activities (e. g.
be easily processed by anyone.
search, comparison, notification)
Technically WWW means a set of
- Transactions (e-com, e-gov)
protocols and languages driven by a
Business Knowledge bases
strong standards approach namely URI,
-Intranets, data warehouses
HTTP, HTML, and HML. The principles
Collaborative Computing
involved are the
- Transaction between systems

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Knowledge-based business - Biology, law etc

65,900,000 results were returned 1. Creating an environment for

Semantic web gives solutions to the Knowledge inference.
above problems. 2. Making Knowledge self-explainable
2.Introduction to the Semantic for machines.

Web: 3. Establishing Trust

We can make it meaningful for machines
According to Sir Tim Berners-
as shown in figure.
Lee, “The Semantic Web is an extension
of the current web in which information
is given well-defined meaning, better 3.Ontologies:
enabling computers and people to work
in cooperation.” Ontology is standard for some

Web is Human Friendly Whereas knowledge domain. Examples are

the SEMANTIC WEB is machine Healthcare, Bioinformatics, and CRM

friendly. Semantic Web means adding and web services. It provides a formal

semantic annotation to web resources. and agreed upon controlled vocabulary,

We can make the Web machine friendly which is used to define concepts and

by information can be tagged according to

these concepts.

Making it Meaningful for Machines

WWW
Resource <RDF
>
http://www.amazon.com/4344533

Humans Machines
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4.Ontology for HealthCare:

product), subclass Of (Employee is

5.WEB ONTOLOGY subclass Of person).

LANGUAGE (OWL): OWL ontologies can be

developed independently, having
OWL is an RDF-based
concepts reference each other. Network
language for Ontology modeling. It
effect is shown in second figure.
enable class and instance definition,
So SEMANTIC WEB is
using relations and properties such as
• The next generation of the WWW
Properties (price is a property of

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• Information has machine-process able • Not a separate Web but an
and machine understandable augmentation of the current one
Semantics • Ontologies as basic building block

Ontologies

Disease
Supplier
Supplies

Is treated by
Has
Is a
Product
Treats Medicine
Doctor
Has RFID
Takes
Buys
Price
Is a Custom
Patient
Healthcare E-Commerce er

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6.CHALLENGESAND • Ontology Languages:

OPPORTUNITIES: Expressivity
Reasoning support
To make the semantic web
Web compliance
working we need the ontology
• Ontology Reasoning:
technology as follows:
Large scale knowledge handling
o Fault-tolerant
o Stable & scalable inference machines Sufficient metadata is the main
• Ontology Management Techniques: bottleneck of the Semantic Web. There
o Editing and browsing is a loop:
o Storage an d retrieval - Without metadata, no applications will
o Versioning and evolution Support be built
• Ontology Integration Techniques: - Without applications, no one will
o Ontology mapping, alignment, create metadata
merging The gap between academic and
o Semantic interoperability commercial is called THE META
determination DATA GAP.

7.BOTTLENECKS: 8.META DATA CHASM:

Ontology creation requires companies
and organization to standardize their

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concepts. It is much harder than to • AGFA – uses RDF to categorize
standardize than communication medical photos
protocols. Ontology creation requires • NOKIA – lots of Semantic Web
large investments. Because ontologies activities. Including RDF knowledge
reduce the uncertainty of information, store
their benefits will be revealed mainly in • IBM - Strong research activities
the long run. FOAF: Stands for “Friend Of A
9.SEMANTIC WEB Friend”. It provides a template for

APPLICATIONS: metadata about people, and their

interests, relationships and activities. It
• Adobe – uses RDF as a basis for
is an open community-lead and open
documenting meta-data, in PDF and
source initiative. FOAF is used to trust
other tools
e-mail. The trust can be inferred as
• Boeing – uses RDF and OWL in
shown in figure.
several internal projects

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10.WEB SERVICES:

These are loosely coupled; reusable interface for consuming a web service.
components and they can encapsulate Interface includes the input and out put
discrete functionality. These are and the access involves the protocol
distributed and programmatically binding. UDDI means Universal
accessible over standard internet Description, Discovery, and Integration
protocols and they add new level of Protocol. UDDI is the registry for the
functionality on top of the current web. web services such as the provider,
service information and the technical
11.PROMISE OF WEB access. SOAP means Simple Object

SERVICES: Access Protocol. XML data transport

involves the protocol binding and the
WSDL means Web Service
communication aspect.
Description Language. It describes

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 The Promise of Web Services

Web-based SOA as new system design paradigm

12.SEMANTIC WEB
SERVICES:
WWW has 500 billion users includes automated discovery, selection,
and more than 3 billion pages. composition, and web based execution
SEMANTIC WEB TECHNOLOGY of services. The combination of the
allows machine supported data above two gives the semantic web
interpretation and ontologies as data services as integrated solution for
model. realizing the vision of the generation of
WEBSERVICETECHONOLOGY the web
.

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 Travel Related Knowledge Models

13.Conclusion: your car will communicate with each

We conclude that Semantic Web other. For others, it will be the

can be seen as the huge engineering automation of corporate decisions that

solution to the problems of WWW. One previously had to be laboriously hand-

of the best things about the web is that processed. For still others, it will be the

it’s so many different things to so many ability to assess the trust worthiness of

different people. The coming Semantic documents on the web. . However, the

Web will multiply this versatility a Semantic web vision of a machine-

thousand fold. For some, t he defining readable web has possibilities for

feature of the Semantic Web will be the application in most web technology.

ease with which your PDA, your

laptop, your desktop, your server, and

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