Semantic Web Representation in RDFSchema: A Practical Approach

Abstract—The World Wide Web has dramatically changed due to the availability of data. Web contains around 3 billion static documents which are accessed by over 500 million users. The current knowledge management techniques are with the issues like information overload, the inefficiency of keyword searching, the lack of authoritative (trusted) information, the lack of natural language processing computer systems and poor content aggregation. These problems are resolved by Semantic Web, which is referred as the future of the current Web by Tim-Berners-Lee, Director of the World Wide Web Consortium. The Semantic Web is an extended web of machine readable information and automated services that simplify the Web. Ontology is used to make the data smarter. The objective of this paper is to provide with an overview of Semantic Web and Ontology with a working example. This paper details the problems in traditional knowledge management systems, Semantic Web architecture, development process involved in Ontology, operations and relations that are performed on Ontology, overview of Ontology languages and Semantic publishing. Finally this paper provides an example of semantic representation for book publisher. Key words- Semantic Web, Ontology, RDFS. I