SemanticWeb.org Requirements Analysis

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SemanticWeb.org Requirements Analysis

• v0.1

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Requirements Analysis

• User Requirements
• Usability
• Collaboration Support
• Content
• Information Item Workflow
• Technical Requirements
• System Technologies
• Data Management
• Server Software
• Semantic Web Technology
• Ontologies
• Semantic Web Services

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Usability

• old-fashioned User Interface Requirements
• focus on functionality and not on graphical or
  technical design
• Compliance with web-standards for cross-platform
  functionality
• XHTML
• CSS
• WCAG
• Develop with low-bandwidth connections in mind!
  (GSM modem 3rd world)

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Collaboration support

• Communities are groups of individuals who wish to
  exchange information about a certain topic
• Information exchange inside communities
• Creating communities
• Finding individuals / communities
• Communication features forum / chat / mailing
  lists
• Information exchange between communities
• Seamlessly publishing information to different
  communities
• Consuming information from different communities

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Content

• Beginners content
• tutorial
• introductory papers
• Expert content
• for all research areas, most relevant information
• Other content
• News
• Agenda
• Research groups / projects / products
• Standardization efforts

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Information Item Workflow

• Creation
• Publication
• Organization
• Access
• Maintenance

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System Technologies

• Data Management
• File system (EXT2, NTFS, etc)
• DBMS
• RDF store
• Server Software
• Web Server
• Application Server (most likely a Java
  application server)
• Operating System
• Criteria
• open/closed source
• depends heavily on the ontology management
  platform and the style of annotation

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Semantic Web Technologies

• Ontology Management
• Ontology Library
• Ontology Creation
• Ontology Maintenance
• Ontology Versioning
• Ontology Interoperation
• Semantic Web Services (align efforts with SWS
  working group)
• SWS Library
• Internal Usage of SWS
• External Usage of SWS
• Publishing SWS
• Consuming SWS