Towards Semantic Latvia

Tim Berners-Lee and co-authors in their seminal paper “The Semantic Web”, published in 2001, outlined their vision about the future Semantic Web. But today we are still far from the implementation of this vision. Despite fundamental achievements, like definition of OWL (Web Ontology Language) and rapid progress of RDF/OWL content creation, storage and processing tools, there are still very few attempts to merge these isolated “islands of success” into a killer application, understandable and useful also outside the expert academic community. The primary intent of this paper is to integrate such still isolated results into the unified “Semantic Latvia” conception. The other intent is to propose solutions for the identified missing components in the three fields: 1) technology for gathering of information for the Semantic Web, 2) RDF data stores and efficient access to this information, 3) Semantic Web query tools based on MDA approach.