This paper presents a brief survey of the current efforts in the Semantic Web literature with respect to the three research topics of Linked Data, semantic search and search interfaces. First we give a basic overview about Linked Data, discussing the concepts, principles and examples of relevant initiatives such as Linked Open Data (LOD). Second we review current and relevant work on semantic s...

In this paper we describe a lightweight approach for semantic interoperability suitable for small and micro enterprises. The approach is based on reusing the existing enterprise infrastructure – emails and documents – and enables lightweight semantic search and recommendation in order to fulfill interoperability tasks.

This paper presents the semantic portal “CULTURESAMPO—Finnish Culture on the Semantic Web”1 [1, 2]. The portal provides memory organizations and other cultural content publishers with a national, shared semantic publication channel for heterogenous cultural contents. The content comes from over ten organizations and is annotated using various ontologies of the FinnONTO infrastructure [3]. For t...

We present the concept of Semantic Advertising which we see as the future of online advertising. Semantic Advertising is online advertising powered by semantic technology which essentially enables us to represent and reason with concepts and the meaning of things. This paper aims to 1) Define semantic advertising, 2) Place it in the context of broader and more widely used concepts such as the S...

Semantic similarity aims at establishing resemblance by interpreting the meaning of the objects being compared. The Semantic Web can benefit from semantic similarity in several ways: ontology alignment and merging, automatic ontology construction, semantic-search, to cite a few. Current approaches mostly focus on computing similarity between nouns. The aim of this paper is to define a framework...

Semantic wikis extend wiki platforms with the ability to represent structured information in a machine-processable way. On top of the structured information in the wiki, novel ways to search, browse, and present the wiki content become possible. However, while powerful query languages offer new opportunities for semantic search, the syntax of formal query languages is not adequate for end users...

The introduction of semantics on the web will lead to a new generation of services based on content rather than on syntax. Search engines will provide topic-based searches, retrieving resources conceptually related to the user informational need. Queries will be expressed in several ways, and will be mapped on the semantic level defining topics that must be retrieved from the web. Moving toward...