Semantic Enabled Voice and Data Integration

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It’s the use of XML-tagged data that conforms to the Resource Description Framework (RDF). This is a collaboration of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and others to provide a standard for defining data structures on the Web.

   1. Description

   2. Why

   3. How

   4. Future Trends

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Description 

The Semantic Web is an evolving extension of the World Wide Web in which the semantics of information and services on the web is defined, making it possible for the web to understand and satisfy the requests of people and machines to use the web content. It derives from W3C director Tim Berners-Lee's vision of the Web as a universal medium for data, information, and knowledge exchange.It has been described in rather different ways: 

  • as a utopic vision,

  • as a web of data,

  • or merely as a natural paradigm shift in our daily use of the Web.

Most of all, the Semantic Web has inspired and engaged many people to create innovative semantic technologies and applications.Convergence of information and telecommunication networks leading to integration of voice, data and video services will bring new opportunities for users as well as service providers.

Why

The idea of a 'semantic web' necessarily coming from some marking code other than simple HTML is built on the assumption that it is not possible for a machine to appropriately interpret code based on nothing but the order relationships of letters and words. If this is not true, then a 'semantic web' may be possible built on HTML alone, making a specially built 'semantic web' coding system unnecessary.The enterprise faces increasingly complex challenges in engaging with and empowering its employees on the one hand, and recognising and responding to the blurring lines between work time and personal time, employee and customer on the other. Linked Data, Kingsley argued, offers a powerful means to “mesh disparate and heterogenous data” over the web in ways that cross some of the boundaries.With a growing number of services available on the market, dynamic discovery of services, their composition, selection, mediation as well as execution will be required.Voice and data services can be seamlessly integrated using existing client as well as server VoIP systems based on a widely used SIP signaling protocol and newly emerging technologies in semantic Web services.Within particular use case scenario, we describe all phases of the call set-up between two call participants. We show how semantic Web services technology can facilitate dynamic and optimal integration of voice and data services with different characteristics while at the same time conforming to users' needs and preferences. 

How 

The Semantic Web is about two things.

  • It is about common formats for integration and combination of data drawn from diverse sources, where on the original Web mainly concentrated on the interchange of documents.

  • It is also about language for recording how the data relates to real world objects. That allows a person, or a machine, to start off in one database, and then move through an unending set of databases which are connected not by wires but by being about the same thing.

Data that is geneally hidden away in HTML files is often useful in some contexts, but not in others. The problem with the majority of data on the Web that is in this form at the moment is that it is difficult to use on a large scale, because there is no global system for publishing data in such a way as it can be easily processed by anyone.For example, just think of information about local sports events, weather information, plane times, Major League Baseball statistics, and television guides all of this information is presented by numerous sites, but all in HTML. The problem with that is that, is some contexts, it is difficult to use this data in the ways that one might want to do so.So the Semantic Web can be seen as a huge engineering solution but it is more than that. As it becomes easier to publish data in a repurposable form, more people will want to pubish data, and there will be a knock-on or domino effect. And a large number of Semantic Web applications can be used for a variety of different tasks, increasing the modularity of applications on the Web.The Semantic Web is generally built on syntaxes which use URIs to represent data, usually in triples based structures: i.e. many triples of URI data that can be held in databases, or interchanged on the world Wide Web using a set of particular syntaxes developed especially for the task. These syntaxes are called "Resource Description Framework" syntaxes.

Future Trends 

The development of the Semantic Web is well underway. This development is occurring in at least two areas: from the infrastructural, all-embracing, position as espoused by the W3C/MIT and other academically-focused organizations, and also in a more directed application-specific fashion by those using web technologies for electronic business.Although there have been several proposals for embedding RDF inside HTML pages, the technique of using XSLT transformations has a much broader appeal. Few people want to learn RDF, and so it presents a barrier to the creation of semantically rich web pages. Using XSLT provides a way for web developers to add semantic information with minimal extra effort. Dan Connolly of the W3C has conducted quite a number of experiments in this area, including HyperRDF, which extracts RDF statements from suitably marked-up XHTML pages. 

Keywords

Semantic Information Integration, Semantic Information Management, COG Project, Enterprise Application Integration.

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