A Survey on the Semantic Link Network

The Semantic Link Network (SLN) is a loosely coupled semantic data model for managing various resources. It is a dynamically growing graph where nodes can be any type of resource, and its edges can be any type of semantic relation. Its reasoning rules enable potential semantic links to be derived out. It has been developed toward a self-organized general semantic model so as to model the structures in different spaces. This paper surveys the SLN, introduces its foundation theory, its progress in recent years, and its most important applications.