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The Semantic Web for all

Issue title: The Semantic Web for all

Article type: Other

Authors: Guéret, Christophe | Boyera, Stephane | Powell, Mike | Murillo, Martin

Affiliations: Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS), Anna van Saksenlaan 51, 2593 HW Den Haag, The Netherlands. E-mail: christophe.gueret@dans.knaw.nl | SB Consulting (SBC4D), 5 rue de la Champagne 31100 Toulouse, France. E-mail: stephane@sbc4d.com | IKM Emergent Programme, Kaiser Friedrich Straße 11, D-53113 Bonn, Germany. E-mail: mike@ikmemergent.net | Notre Dame Global Adaptation Index (ND-GAIN), 1400 E. Angela Blvd., Suite 117, South Bend, IN 46617, USA. E-mail: murillo@ieee.org

Keywords: ICT4D, Semantic Web, knowledge representation, ontology, crisis response

DOI: 10.3233/SW-140165

Journal: Semantic Web, vol. 6, no. 1, pp. 3-4, 2015

Published: 2015
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Abstract

Over the past few years Semantic Web technologies have brought significant changes in the way structured data is published, shared and consumed on the Web. Emerging online applications based on the Web of Objects or Linked Open Data can use the Web as a platform to exchange and reason over semantically rich data covering any topic. Yet two-thirds of the world population is deprived of Web access and is thus deprived from applications that could have a critical impact on their life. There is a need to adapt Semantic Web technologies to put them to work “for all” in challenging contexts. This special issue describes progress made towards reaching that goal.

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