This technical tutorial presents a new infrastucture, called Entity Naming System (ENS), which will help organizations, companies, data/content providers and end users to create high quality interlinked content in a much fmore efficient and effective way, both in closed networks (Intranets) and on the Web. In addition, several examples of how common tools (from text processors to ontology editors) can be extended to interact with the ENS are illustrated. Practical demonstrations of the immediate benefits of an ENS-empowered network will be given.
One of the expected benefits of semantic technologies is to enable innovative and smarter services based on the integration of many interlinked data sources, not only on the Web, but also (and perhaps even more evidently) in corporate networks, where a lot of useful data is "locked" into legacy systems and can be integrated only at the cost of expensive ad hoc solutions.
This scenario presupposes that organizations and content providers implement a virtuous circle of creating, sharing, interlinking, reusing and aggregating data. In theory, current semantic technologies offer a viable and scalable approach for implementing such a virtuous circle; however, in practice, very little methodological and infrastructural support has been provided to lower the costs and the entrance barriers for interested actors.
This technical tutorial will present a new infrastucture, called Entity Naming System (ENS), which will help organizations, companies, data/content providers and end users to create high quality interlinked content in a much fmore efficient and effective way, both in closed networks (Intranets) and on the Web. In addition, several examples of how common tools (from text processors to ontology editors) can be extended to interact with the ENS will be illustrated. Practical demonstrations of the immediate benefits of an ENS-empowered network will be given.
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