Piggy Bank: Experience the Semantic Web Inside Your Web Browser Export

@inbook{citeulike:1123208, abstract = {The Semantic Web Initiative envisions a Web wherein information is offered free of presentation, allowing more effective exchange and mixing across web sites and across web pages. But without substantial Semantic Web content, few tools will be written to consume it; without many such tools, there is little appeal to publish Semantic Web content. To break this chicken-and-egg problem, thus enabling more flexible informa-tion access, we have created a web browser extension called Piggy Bankthat lets users make use of Semantic Web content within Web content as users browse the Web. Wherever Semantic Web content is not available, Piggy Bank can invoke screenscrapers to re-structure information within web pages into Semantic Web format. Through the use of Semantic Web technologies, Piggy Bank provides direct, immediate benefits to users in their use of the existing Web. Thus, the ex-istence of even just a few Semantic Web-enabled sites or a few scrapers already benefits users. Piggy Bank thereby offers an easy, incremental upgrade path to users without requiring a wholesale adoption of the Semantic Web's vision. To further improve this Semantic Web experience, we have created Semantic Bank, a web server application that lets Piggy Bank users share the Semantic Web information they have collected, enabling collaborative efforts to build so-phisticated Semantic Web information repositories through simple, everyday's use of Piggy Bank.}, author = {Huynh, David and Mazzocchi, Stefano and Karger, David}, citeulike-article-id = {1123208}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/11574620_31}, doi = {10.1007/11574620_31}, journal = {The 4th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2005)}, keywords = {ots-wiki, portlet, semantic, semanticweb}, pages = {413--430}, posted-at = {2008-01-28 13:08:53}, priority = {2}, series = {Lecture Notes in Computer Science}, title = {Piggy Bank: Experience the Semantic Web Inside Your Web Browser}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/11574620_31}, year = {2005} }

TY - CHAP ID - citeulike:1123208 L3 - citeulike-article-id:1123208 N2 - The Semantic Web Initiative envisions a Web wherein information is offered free of presentation, allowing more effective exchange and mixing across web sites and across web pages. But without substantial Semantic Web content, few tools will be written to consume it; without many such tools, there is little appeal to publish Semantic Web content. To break this chicken-and-egg problem, thus enabling more flexible informa-tion access, we have created a web browser extension called Piggy Bankthat lets users make use of Semantic Web content within Web content as users browse the Web. Wherever Semantic Web content is not available, Piggy Bank can invoke screenscrapers to re-structure information within web pages into Semantic Web format. Through the use of Semantic Web technologies, Piggy Bank provides direct, immediate benefits to users in their use of the existing Web. Thus, the ex-istence of even just a few Semantic Web-enabled sites or a few scrapers already benefits users. Piggy Bank thereby offers an easy, incremental upgrade path to users without requiring a wholesale adoption of the Semantic Web’s vision. To further improve this Semantic Web experience, we have created Semantic Bank, a web server application that lets Piggy Bank users share the Semantic Web information they have collected, enabling collaborative efforts to build so-phisticated Semantic Web information repositories through simple, everyday’s use of Piggy Bank. JF - The 4th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2005) SE - Lecture Notes in Computer Science EP - 430 TI - Piggy Bank: Experience the Semantic Web Inside Your Web Browser SP - 413 KW - ots-wiki KW - portlet KW - semantic KW - semanticweb AU - Huynh, David AU - Mazzocchi, Stefano AU - Karger, David PY - 2005/// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/11574620_31 ER -