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

fYear

2007

fDate

17-19 Sept. 2007

Firstpage

216

Lastpage

223

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;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Semantic Computing, 2007. ICSC 2007. International Conference on

Conference_Location

Irvine, CA

Print_ISBN

978-0-7695-2997-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICSC.2007.106

Filename

4338352