The School of Web Semantics Learning Semantic Web Techniques

In October last year (at the Polish edition of the School of Semantics), I introduced the lightweight ontology called Dublin Core. It is one of the oldest and probably the most popular ontologies used not only in Web 3.0, but all across the Web. Did you know that the Dublin Core standard comes from the digital libraries domain? Another ontology that is closely related to digital libraries is SKOS (which I also wrote about last year).

These ontologies and other standards arose from digital libraries research. Many of the ideas that formed the foundations for the Semantic Web come directly from the digital libraries domain; many people closely associated with the development of Web 3.0 also have some experience working with digital libraries. So you may be surprised to learn that until only recently these two research domains, i.e., digital libraries and the Semantic Web, could not find a common language.