Legislative document content extraction based on semantic web. Xml databases and the semantic web bhavani thuraisingham crc press boca raton london new york washington, d. The goal of the semantic web is to make internet data machinereadable to enable the encoding of semantics with the data, technologies such as resource description framework rdf and web ontology language owl are used. The file will be updated if it is found valid else it will be discarded also, for each url, ptsw will try to do content negotiation with the remote web server to try to find rdf xml, rdfn3 or rdfturtle by this method. The semantic web is a vision of information that is understandable by computers, so that they can perform more of the tedious work involved in finding, sharing and combining information on the web. Dec 06, 2000 in a keynote session at xml 2000 tim bernerslee, director of the wide web consortium, outlined his vision for the semantic web. In section 5 we argue why the hope to exploit xml for semantic interoperability is illfated in the long run, and why rdf is a better candidate for this purpose. Recently there is a trend towards the semantic web where the information can be can be processed and understood by agents. Read download legislative xml for the semantic web pdf. You can think of it as being an efficient way of representing data on. The development of semantic web is well underway with a goal that it would be possible for machines to understand the information on the web rather than simply display.
Mar 19, 2003 it can be difficult to get javassript to work properly in both html and xml modes. He is a member of the w3c working group on xml schema, and member of the scientific committee of several conferences and journals in web engineering and technologies. Jun 05, 2019 legislative document content extraction based on semantic web technologies 1. It is not great fun learning to develop with the semantic web today.
Our main aim is to show how xml topic maps can be used. This means that previously published legislinks wont break over time. The semantic web is an extension of the world wide web through standards set by the world wide web consortium w3c. The transformation of legacy xml to metalex and rdf is imp. Ndiipp xml october meeting minutes december 2008 dan. A survey of the state of the art in semantic hypermultimedia adaptation. We motivate the design of our system with a specific application. Nov 01, 2000 semantic web technologies contd rdf, rdf schemas and ontologies.
Legislative xml for the semantic web principles, models. In this article, the authors describe owls policy annotations and extend the owls matchmaker and owls virtual machine to support the processing of those policies. Legal urls voxpopulii lii announce cornell university. As introduced in our previous work 1, the advantages of owl ontologies for product information include followings. Xml documents and rdf triples to provide a complete picture. In this paper, we design a method to translate xml to semantic web. Short introduction to the semantic web intro semantic web and rdfs a biased introduction 2003, pdf presentation by atanas kiryakov, ceo ontotext ad semantic search book chapter, pdf, 33 pages, jun 2006 further introduction to the semantic web if you. The principles of the semantic web have a natural application in specialized domains such as the legal one.
A big part of the problem with the semantic web is that lots of people in. Semantic web standards and ontologies for legislative. The lkif builds on but goes beyond this generic work to allow further kinds of legal knowledge to be modelled, including. Oct 15, 2016 semantic web seminar ppt and pdf report for free download. Preserving state government digital information core. Starting out with an overview of the context for the use of xml standards in legislation, the book next examines the rationale of standardbased management of legislative documents. In this paper, we describe solon, a legal document management platform. To develop a chain of tools for managing legal information, both as text and as. The different formats html, html snippets, xml, and pdf relate to the different manifestations.
Semantic web, ontologies, linked data, knowledge graphs. The transformation of legacy xml to metalex and rdf is implemented in the metalex. This shows how we could use a wrapper for content in a way that would meet our goal of defining a standard xml schema that would be the same for both senders and receivers. Here, we would like to highlight the value of semantic web technologies for mdm and brief completed and ongoing work. This paper discusses about the concept of semantic web, technologythe, web content writing, and necessity for the development of 3. Semantics marklogic special edition events marklogic. Legislative document content extraction based on semantic. On the future of legal publishing services in the semantic web. It goes on to address such issues as naming, the akomantoso document model, the contribution of standardbased document management to handling legislative dynamics. To realize this vision, we must describe web content, particularly web service content and capabilities, in a language that goes beyond xml. These tags are invisible to the people who read the document but visible to computers. The semantic web vision of a nextgeneration web that computers can unambiguously interpret addresses precisely this problem. Semantic web seminar ppt and pdf report for free download.
Read download legislative xml for the semantic web pdf pdf. Furthermore, an improved algorithm based on semantic similarity computation improves the efficiency of service discovery, which sets up a solid foundation for service composition. Legislative document content extraction based on semantic web technologies a use case about processing the history of the law at chile francisco cifuentes silva library of congress, chile phd student weso research group jose emilio labra gayo weso research group university of oviedo, spain. Library of congress cataloginginpublication data thuraisingham, bhavani m. Legislative xml for the semantic web principles, models, standards for document management. Grddl, legal and legislative resource, legal reasoning, parliamentary documents, xml vocabulary 1 introduction akoma ntoso is an xml vocabulary for legal and legislative documents whose primary objective is to provide semantic information on top of a received legal text. The production system uses semantic web technologies, akomantoso, and tools that automate the marking of plain text to xml, enriching and linking documents. To cope with the enormous quantity of data, we need to hand off portions of these tasks to machines. Owl web ontology language the semantic web is a vision for the future of the web in which information is given explicit meaning, making it easier for machines to automatically process and integrate information available on the web. In order to automate ebusiness with semantic web technologies, we need to. The purpose of this work is to present, a semantic annotation framework for describing web service and extending uddi to support semantic web service. Rdf xml is used to serialize information represented using graphs, how rdf graphs can be read and written by using the jena software package, and how distributed graphs can be queried using the sql query language.
Pdf bringing semantics to web services david martin. Xml is a markup language like hypertext markup language html, which youre probably somewhat familiar with from surfing the web. The automatic generation of amending documents based on the editing of an existing law or proposal, and the automatic consolidation of proposed legislation based on the original and its amending documents. Every time i am forced to work with xml, i wonder how differently it would have. This paper describes extensions to our native xml legislative editor metavex, dealing with specific requests of legislative drafters. The semantic web on the respective roles of xml and rdf. We previously abandoned the one size fits all method because it wont work. On the other hand, the dominant standard for information exchange in the web today is xml. The bwb xml document returned is stripped of all version history. Introduction legislative drafting, and designing amendments to existing or new legislation are important parts of the work done by national parliaments, regional assemblies, city councils.
Rdf basics rdf triples rdf allows the formalization of statements in form of twoadic relations called predicates or properties. While its somewhat unwieldy syntax often attracts negative attention from xml developers, the real value of rdf is the data model. Semantic web the semantic web provides a common framework that allows data and knowledge to be shared and reused across application, enterprise, and community boundaries. However, as xml was invented for structuring data rather than describing the meaning of data, xml documents cannot be used as they are in the semantic web environment. Legal uris voxpopulii lii announce cornell university. Semantic publishing will benefit greatly from the semantic web. Xml databases and the semantic web bhavani thuraisingham. We then briefly summarize key elements of xml and rdf, showing why using xml as a tool for semantic.
Web ontology languages have a syntax based on xml, though they. Short introduction to the semantic web intro semantic web and rdfs a biased introduction 2003, pdf presentation by atanas kiryakov, ceo ontotext ad semantic search book chapter, pdf, 33 pages, jun 2006 further introduction to the semantic web if you have like one day to dedicate to this part, please enjoy. Semantic web for the working ontologist modeling in rdf, rdfs. In one of his most complete public expositions of the vision to date, he explained the layered architecture that he foresees being developed in the next ten years. Introduction legislative drafting, and designing amendments to existing or new legislation are important parts of the work done by national parliaments, regional assemblies, city councils and ministries in europe. The present work defines the stated problem and as of my knowledge provides a new solution to the current problem. Pdf abstract ecommerce is major influential domain of a digital economy. It is perfectly legal to say apply a maxcardinality.
Pdf introduction to semantic web ontology languages. Pdf engineerig semantic web for ecommerce business. Semantic web technologies contd rdf, rdf schemas and ontologies. Xml complements but does not replace html by adding tags that describe data. Pdf the semantic web a guide to the future of xml, web. This volume examines the basic layers of the standardbased creation and usage of legislation. As the concept of semantic web had started on around 2000, we have very few semantic web page. The first web enables communication between people the web shows how computers and networks enable the information space while getting out of the way the new web will bring computers into the action step 1 describe. In sections 3 and 4 we briefly summarize the currently available standards for semantic interoperability, namely xml and rdf.
In the context of the emergent web of data, a large number of organizations, institutes and companies e. This volume examines the basic layers of the standard based. As the creation and design of syntactic web page is ease of work also we have lot of inbuilt software for it still people are interested in creating simple. This volume examines the basic layers of the standardbased. To enable the encoding of semantics with the data, technologies such as resource description framework rdf 2 and web ontology language owl 3 are used. Existing semantic web initiatives are aimed at modelling concepts owl ontologies and rules ruleml and swrl. Additionally, technology leaders like ibm, hp, and adobe have semantic web products available, and many more it companies have internal semantic web research projects. One way to make the xml data usable to the semantic web is converting them to rdf formatted data. After a brief introduction on legal informatics, we focus on legislative informatics and identify the challenges it faces nowadays, in the. Xml topic maps as a representative of semantic web may help to improving the discovery mechanism. Pdf the aim of this chapter is to give a general introduction to some of the ontology languages. Information free fulltext application of an ecosystem. Building the semantic web on xml max planck society.
Different versions of the legislation current, original, different points in time, or prospective relate to different expressions. These documents semantically annotated allow to develop specialized political and legislative services, and to extract knowledge for a legal knowledge base for public use. In short, work level identifiers are based on the standard bwb identifier, followed by. The semantic web a portrait of the semantic web in action jeff heflin and james hendler, university of maryland the web s phenomenal growth rate makes it increasingly difficult to locate, organize, and integrate the available information. Xml manifestations of statutes and regulations are retrievable through an api on top of the basiswettenbestand bwb content management system. Introduction to semantic web besim abdullai official web. Using semantic web technologies for analysis and validation.
The semantic web is a mesh of information linked up in such a way as to be easily processable by machines, on a global scale. Proofs and trust relate to the logic of the semantic web and applications abilities to verify that data is correct and consistent. This rest web service only provides the latest version of an entire statute or regulation. If you use any javascript on your pages now, you may be better off waiting to make the jump to xhtml 2. Html governs the appearance of the information you look at on the web. Legislative metadata based on semantic formal models valentina bartalesi lenzi celct, center for the evaluation of language and communication technologies via sommarive 18, 38100 povo, italy email.
The goal of the semantic web is to make internet data machinereadable. Subject, predicate, and object form socalled triples. How does it work you can use the url of an html or rdf document when pinging pingthesemanticweb. Nonunique namingsince the speakers on the web wont necessarily coordi.
Building the semantic web on xml 151 this new semantic web, being replaced by a data model much closer to the xml data model. Machine readable open public data and the issue of multilingual webareopenchallenges promising totransform therelation. Xml, rdfs, owl, metadata, regulation, drafting, semantic web, tool 1. Unlike pdf, the semantic of each part of the xml file can be. Please note that many of the page functionalities wont work as expected. We show that this approach produces legal open data of satisfying quality while. First applications lars schmidtthieme, information systems and machine learning lab ismll, university of hildesheim, germany, course on xml and. The semantic web is emerging today in thousands of pilot projects in diverse industries like library science, defense, medicine, and finance. Pdf legal informatics and management of legislative. Most of the present research works focus on the translation from html to semantic web, but seldom on xml. The semantic web is given a rough raking by the syntactic web, and it is not impossible to see why when you. So the rdf example above would not result in a twonode graph fragment with a labeled edge, plus extra edges for the type information, but instead would result in the. Producing semantic markup describing a set of web pages using a semantic web language can be challenging. In particular, it addresses the identification of legislative.
The w3cs resource description framework is one of the cornerstones of semantic web work. Principles, models, standards for document management. This report aims at providing an overview of the state of the art and of the prospects of the application of information and communication technologies ict in the legislative domain, in particular concerning the management of legislative documents. As with any web document, the semantic web requires security measures to protect data and transactions. Authorization and privacy for semantic web services. He is the author of important standards in the legislative xml domain, and work on issues related to digital publishing, web technologies and semantic web technologies.
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