The Semantic Web is an evolving extension of the World Wide Web in which Web content can be expressed not only in natural language, but also in a form that can be understood, interpreted, and used by software agents, thus permitting them to find, share, and integrate information more easily.
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Towards the Adaptive Web Using Metadata Evolution
Nicolas Guelfi (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg), Cédric Pruski (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg, and University of Paris-Sud XI, France), and Chantal Reynaud (University of Paris-Sud XI, France)
Copyright: © 2008
|Pages: 15
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-59904-847-5.ch017
Abstract
The evolution of Web information is of utmost importance in the design of good Web Information Systems applications. New emerging paradigms, like the Semantic Web, use ontologies for describing metadata and are defined, in part, to aid in Web evolution. In this chapter, we survey techniques for ontology evolution. After identifying the different kinds of evolution with which the Web is confronted, we detail the various existing languages and techniques devoted to Web data evolution, with particular attention to Semantic Web concepts, and how these languages and techniques can be adapted to evolving data in order to improve the quality of Web Information Systems applications.