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Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. Author/Speaker/Consultant
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Tuesday, December 28, 2004  

Magpie - The Semantic Filter and Tool For the Semantic Web
http://kmi.open.ac.uk/projects/magpie/main.html

Magpie uses ontology infrastructure to semantically markup web documents on-the-fly. The existing technologies in this problem domain tend to be rather heavyweight, and often modify the appearance of the actual webpage. Whilst these modifications may sometimes be acceptable, sometimes they may be a cause of a serious annoyance on user's behalf. Often, the existing technologies rely on one very specific ontology... To alleviate some of these issues, they started work on the Magpie technology that would be lightweight and provide sufficiently robust and flexible features for semantically enriched browsing. Magpie tool aims to identify and filter out the concepts-of-interest from any webpage it is given. The current set of concepts can be influenced by a selection of a particular ontology of concepts and relations. In addition to identifying the concepts-of-interest that are relevant from the perspective of a particular ontology, each such concept may provide an applicable set of relations or commands that can be executed. Such relationships are both, determined and evaluated dynamically by querying the ontology server. Another feature they believe improves the user's experience is the ability to turn the semantic menus ON or OFF, to highlight all instances belonging to a particular ontological class, to follow and semantically process the links embedded in the document. This has been added to the Semantic Web Research section of Deep Web Research Subject Tracer™ Information Blog.

posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:20 AM
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