Semantic Web Glossary

By Jack Krupansky

This Semantic Web Glossary is a hyperlinked web of terms that are encountered when reading about the Semantic Web. Initially I will simply gather the list of Semantic Web terms, but gradually I will flesh out meaningful definitions within my hyperlinked term web that includes software agent technology and computer science term definitions.

If you are looking for a simpler glossary to help get you started, check out Alex Genadinik's Semantic Web Glossary.

It is not my intention to include tools and libraries in the glossary, but I will make exceptions in cases where a tool or library is so commonly referenced that it almost "feels" like it is an intrinsic part of the Semantic Web. I will be a bit more liberal about including data formats in the glossary.

A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z

A

• ABox - Assertional Box

• Absolute URI
• Absolute URI Reference
• Application Data - Machine Processable Information
• Architecture of Participation

• Assertional Box (ABox)

• Assertional Logic
• Attribute
• ATOM
• Automatic Composition of Semantic Web Services
• Automatic Ontology Construction
• Axiom
• Axiom Annotations

B

• Biomedical Knowledge Bases
• Biomedical Ontologies
• Blank Node

C

• Canonical URI
• Cardinality
• Choreography
• Class - group of resources
• Class Extension
• Classifications
• Closed World Model
• Code List
• Code List Representation
• Collaborative Ontology
• Collaborative Ontology Authoring
• Collaborative Social Environments
• Comment - human-readable description of a resource
• Composition Planning of Semantic Web Services
• Computational Philosophy
• Corporate Semantic Web
• Concept
• Conceptual Graph
• Conceptual Model
• Conditional Statement
• Consensual Knowledge
• Context-Aware Intelligent Agent
• Context Free Identifier
• Controlled Structured Vocabularies
• Controlled Vocabulary
• Cool URI
• Corpora
• Curating Approaches
• Curating Approaches for Linked Data
• Curating Policies
• Curating Policies and Approaches
• Curating Policies and Approaches for Linked Data
• Curating Policies for Linked Data
• Curation
• Curation Metadata
• CURIE - Compact URI

D

• Data
• Data Services
• Data Web
• Datatype
• Datatype URI
• Default Namespace
• Description Logic (DL)
• Description Resources (DRs)
• Distributed Knowledge Base Systems
• Distributed Ontologies
• Distributed Reasoning
• DL - Description Logic
• Descriptive
• Document
• Document Structure
• Domain
• DRs - Description Resources
• DTD
• Dublin Core
• Dynamic Ontologies

E

• E-Triple
• Element
• Embedded RDF (eRDF)
• Emergent Semantics
• ENS - Entity Name System
• Entailment
• Entity
• Entity Name System (ENS)
• Enumerated Values
• eRDF - Embedded RDF
• ERDF - Extended RDF
• Evolution
• Evolution in Vocabularies
• Expressive Knowledge Representation
• Expressive Ontologies
• Extended RDF (ERDF)
• Extensible Markup Language (XML)
• Extensible Metadata Platform (XMP)

F

• Facet
• Factoring
• Federated Ontologies
• FOAF
• Folksonomy
• Formal Concept Analysis
• Formal Concept Analysis and Ontologies
• Formal Semantics
• Foundation Ontology
• Fragment Identifier

G

• Generic Code List
• Generic Code List Representation

• Genericode

• Geo Location
• Giga Triple (GT)
• Giga-Triple (GT)
• Gigatriple (GT)
• Gleaning Resource Descriptions from Dialects of Languages (GRDDL)
• Graph-Based Data Model
• Graph-Oriented Reification
• Graph Provenance
• Graph URI
• GRDDL - Gleaning Resource Descriptions from Dialects of Languages
• GT - Gigatriple
• GTriple
• Gtriple

H

• Human Experience Representation
• Human-Readable
• Human-Readable Web
• Hypermedia Semantics
• Hypertext
• Hypertext Semantics

I

• Identity
• Identity Resolution
• Impedance Mismatch
• Industry Master Ontology
• Inference
• Inference Web
• Inferencing Engines
• Information
• Information Evolution
• Information Reuse and Integration (IRI)
• Informational
• Infrastructure for the Semantic Web
• Instance of a Class
• Intelligent Software Agent
• Intelligent Store - Intelligent Triple Store
• Intelligent Triple Store
• Interlinking of Resources with Semantics (IRS)
• IRI - Information Reuse and Integration
• IRI - Internationalized Resource Identifier
• IRS - Interlinking of Resources with Semantics

J

• JavaScript Object Notation (JSON)
• Jena
• JSON - JavaScript Object Notation
• JSON Triple
• Justification Information

K

• Kilo Triple (KT)
• Kilo-Triple (KT)
• Kilotriple (KT)
• Knowledge Acquisition
• Knowledge Discovery
• Knowledge-Intensive Applications
• Knowledge Mining
• Knowledge Organization Systems
• Knowledge Patterns
• Knowledge Provenance Infrastructure
• Knowledge Reengineering
• Knowledge Representation
• Knowledge Representation Language
• Knowledge Reuse
• Knowledge Evolution
• KT - Kilotriple

L

• Label - human-readable form of a resource name
• Language Neutral Concepts
• Language Tagging
• Large Scale Knowledge Base Management
• Layered Vocabularies
• LD - Linked Data
• Linked Data Applications
• LDW - Linked Data Web
• Lexicon
• LGD - LinkedGeoData
• Lightweight Ontologies
• Lightweight Representation Languages
• Lightweight Semantics
• Lightweight Vocabulary Reasoning
• Linked Data (LD)
• Linked Data Application Architectures
• Linked Data browsers
• Linked Data on the Social Web
• Linked Data on the Web
• Linked Data Oriented
• Linked Data Oriented Technology
• Linked Data Search Engines
• Linked Data Source
• Linked Data Technologies
• Linked Data Web (LDW)
• Linked E-Triples
• LinkedGeoData (LGD)
• Linked Geo Data (LGD)
• Linked Government Data

• Linked Open Data

• Linked Open Data Web

• Linked Open eCommerce (LOC)
• Linked Triples
• Linking Open Data (LOD)
• Linking Open Data Cloud
• Linking Open Data Cloud Cache (LOD Cloud Cache)
• Linking Open Data Cloud Cache Instance (LOD Cloud Cache Instance)
• Literal Graphs
• Literal Value - RDF Literal
• LOC
• Location-Based Services
• LOD
• LOD Cloud
• LOD Cloud Cache - Linking Open Data Cloud Cache
• LOD Cloud Cache Instance - Linking Open Data Cloud Cache Instance
• LOD Endpoint
• Loosely Structured Data
• Lower-Level Ontology
• Lower Ontology

M

• Machine-Comprehensible
• Machine-Processable
• Machine Processable Information - Application Data
• Machine-Understandable
• Manchester OWL Syntax
• Manchester Syntax
• Master Data Model
• Master Data/Ontology Model.
• Master Ontology
• Master Ontology Model
• Meaning
• Mega Triple (MT)
• Mega-Triple (MT)
• Megatriple (MT)
• Mereology
• Meta Assertion
• Metadata
• Metadata Management
• Metadata Store
• Meta-Knowledge
• METEOR-S
• Microformat
• MIME Type
• Mobile Semantic Web
• Model-Theoretic Semantics
• MT - Mega Triple
• Multi-Graph Data
• Multimedia Semantics

N

• N-Triples
• N3 - Notation3
• Named Components
• Named Graph
• Named RDF Graph
• Namespace
• Negated Statement
• Negative Property Assertion
• Negotiation of Semantic Web Resources
• Negotiation of Semantic Web Services
• Negotiation of Semantic Web Services and Resources
• Non-Ontological Resource
• Normal Form C - Normalization Form C - Unicode Normalization Form C
• Normalization Form C - Normal Form C - Unicode Normalization Form C
• Normative
• Notation 3 (N3)
• Notation3 (N3)

O

• Object - RDF triple object
• ODM - Ontology Definition Metamodel
• Ontological Resources
• Ontology
• Ontology Alignment
• Ontology Axioms
• Ontology-Based Information Extraction and Retrieval
• Ontology-Based Tools
• Ontology Construction
• Ontology Construction Tools
• Ontology Definition Metamodel (ODM)
• Ontology Design Pattern (ODP)
• Ontology Design Pattern Extraction
• Ontology Design Pattern Reuse
• Ontology Development Tools
• Ontology-Driven Architecture
• Ontology-Driven Databases
• Ontology Dynamics
• Ontology Editor
• Ontology-Enabled Environments
• Ontology-Enabled Environments and Tools
• Ontology-Enabled Environments and Tools for Linked Data
• Ontology-Enabled Tools
• Ontology Engineering
• Ontology Engineering Tools
• Ontology Evolution
• Ontology Harvesting
• Ontology Harvesting on the Web
• Ontology Integration
• Ontology Learning
• Ontology Mapping
• Ontology Mapping Systems
• Ontology Matchers
• Ontology Matching
• Ontology Matching and Integration
• Ontology Matching Systems
• Ontology Merging
• Ontology Naming Standards
• Ontology Pairs
• Ontology Patterns
• Ontology Revision
• Ontology Versioning
• Ontology Visualisation
• Open Data
• Open Street Map (OSM)
• OpenStreetMap (OSM)
• Open World Model
• Organisational Vocabularies
• Organizational Semiotics
• OSM - OpenStreetMap
• OWL - Web Ontology Language
• OWL DL
• OWL DL Compliant
• OWL Full
• OWL Lite
• OWL Ontology
• OWL-S

P

• P2P Knowledge Base Systems
• Pattern-Based Ontology Evaluation
• Pattern-Based Ontology Evaluation and Selection
• Pattern-Based Ontology Selection
• Plain Literal
• PML - Proof Markup Language
• POWDER - Protocol for Web Description Resources
• Populating Ontologies
• Populating the Semantic Web
• Pragmatic Web
• Predicate - RDF triple predicate
• Privacy
• Proof Markup Language (PML)
• Property - RDF Property
• Property of a Triple
• Proposition
• Protocol for Web Description Resources (POWDER)
• Provenance
• Provenance Information
• Provenance Tracking

Q

• QName - Qualified Name
• Quad Storage
• Quad Store
• Quad-Store
• Quadstore

R

• RDB2RDF - Relational Database to RDF Mapping
• RDF
• RDF Alternative Container
• RDF Application
• RDF Auth - RDFAuth
• RDF Bag Container
• RDF Blank Node
• RDF Collections
• RDF Containers
• RDF Data
• RDF Data Store
• RDF Dataset
• RDF Data Storage
• RDF Data Store
• RDF Datatype
• RDF Document
• RDF Facet
• RDF Graph
• RDF Graph Merge
• RDF-in-HTML
• RDF Instance
• RDF Integration
• RDF Literal
• RDF Markup
• RDF Mirror
• RDF Model Theory

• RDF Named Graph

• RDF Nodes

• RDF Object
• RDF/OWL Data Storage
• RDF/OWL Data Store
• RDF Parser
• RDF Parsing
• RDF Primer
• RDF Property
• RDF Predicate
• RDF Quad Storage
• RDF Quad Store
• RDF Quad-Store
• RDF Quadstore
• RDF Reification
• RDF Repositories
• RDF Schema (RDFS) - RDF Vocabulary Description Language
• RDF Scripting
• RDF Semantic Web Markup
• RDF Semantics
• RDF Serialization
• RDF Serializer
• RDF Sequence Container
• RDF Serialization Format
• RDF Store
• RDF Storage
• RDF Systems
• RDF Systems and Applications
• RDF Statement
• RDF Statement Object
• RDF Statement Predicate
• RDF Statement Property
• RDF Statement Subject
• RDF Storage
• RDF Store
• RDF Subject
• RDF Test Cases
• RDF Triple
• RDF Triple Object
• RDF Triple Predicate
• RDF Triple Property
• RDF Triple/Quad Store
• RDF Triple Statement
• RDF Triple Subject
• RDF Triple Store
• RDF Triplestore
• RDF URI Reference
• RDF Vocabulary
• RDF Vocabulary Description Language (RDF Schema, RDFS)
• RDF/XML Abbreviated
• RDF XML Parser
• RDF XML serialization
• RDF/XML serialization
• RDF XML serializer
• RDF/XML XMP
• RDFa
• RDFAuth - RDF Auth
• RDF-izing Existing Content
• RDF-izing Existing Web Content
• RDFS - RDF Schema - RDF Vocabulary Description Language
• RDF/XML
• Reasoning Engine
• Regular XML RDF (RXR)
• Reference
• Reference Data
• Reification
• Reification Graph
• Reified Statement
• Relational Database to RDF Mapping (RDB2RDF)
• Relative URI
• Relative URI Reference
• Reputation
• Resource - anything described by RDF
• Resource Description Format (RDF)
• Resource Description Format in Attributes (RDFa)
• Resource Retrieval
• REST
• RESTful
• RESTful Interface
• RIF
• Role
• RSS
• Rules
• RXR - Regular XML RDF

S

• S3 - Semantic Service Selection

• SA-REST

• SAWSDL - Semantic Annotations for WSDL

• Scalability
• Scalable Reasoning
• Scalable Semantic Web Knowledge Base Systems
• Schema
• Schema URI
• Schema Subset
• Security
• Semantic Agent Systems
• Semantic Alignment

• Semantic Annotation

• Semantic Annotation Sharing

• Semantic Annotations for WSDL (SAWSDL)

• Semantic Assertion

• Semantic Assertion Collection (SAC)

• Semantic-Aware Mapping

• Semantic-Aware Matching

• Semantic-Aware Matching and Mapping

• Semantic-Aware Search Engines

• Semantic Applications

• Semantic-Based Keyword

• Semantic-Based Keyword Searching

• Semantic-Based Keyword Searching in Databases

• Semantic-Based Lifecycle Management

• Semantic-Based Service Composition
• Semantic-Based Service Discovery
• Semantic-Based Service Discovery and Composition
• Semantic Bioinformatics
• Semantic Biomedical Web Services
• Semantic Blogs
• Semantic Bookmarking
• Semantic Collaboration
• Semantic Collaborative Research Environments
• Semantic Data
• Semantic Data Integration
• Semantic Data Models
• Semantic Dataspaces
• Semantic Data Wiki
• Semantic-Enabled Applications
• Semantic Enhanced Search
• Semantic Enhanced Search Strategies
• Semantic Enhancement
• Semantic Evaluation
• Semantic Evaluator
• Semantic Evolution
• Semantic Functionality
• Semantic Grid
• Semantic Grid Services
• Semantic Information Retrieval
• Semantic Integration
• Semantic Interoperability
• Semantic Interoperability of Linked Data
• Semantic Knowledge
• Semantic Layer
• Semantic Markup
• Semantic Metadata
• Semantic Metadata Management
• Semantic Middleware
• Semantic Multimedia Management
• Semantic Query Processing
• Semantic Querying
• Semantic Retrieval
• Semantic Search
• Semantic Search Tools
• Semantic Service Selection (S3)
• Semantic SOA
• Semantic Social Networks
• Semantic Software
• Semantic Software Tools
• Semantic Solutions
• Semantic System Interoperability
• Semantic Technology
• Semantic Theory
• Semantic Value
• Semantic Value-Added
• Semantic Web
• Semantic Web Application
• Semantic Web Architectures
• Semantic Web Architectures for Enterprises
• Semantic Web Area
• Semantic Web-Based Data Integration
• Semantic Web-Based Information Integration
• Semantic Web Browser
• Semantic Web Conference
• Semantic Web Developers
• Semantic Web Enabled Software Engineering
• Semantic Web Endpoints
• Semantic Web End-Users
• Semantic Web Evaluators
• Semantic Web for Bioinformatics
• Semantic Web Frameworks
• Semantic Web Index
• Semantic Web Knowledge Base
• Semantic Web Knowledge Base Systems
• Semantic Web Languages
• Semantic Web Languages and  Tools
• Semantic Web Markup
• Semantic Web Mining
• Semantic Web Ontologies
• Semantic Web Publishing
• Semantic Web Publishing Vocabulary
• Semantic Web Repository
• Semantic Web Representations
• Semantic Web Resource
• Semantic Web Rule Technologies
• Semantic Web Scripting
• Semantic Web Search Engine
• Semantic Web Service Matchmakers
• Semantic Web Service Discovery
• Semantic Web Service Retrieval Tools
• Semantic Web Service Tools
• Semantic Web Services (SWS)
• Semantic Web Services Composition
• Semantic Web Services Discovery
• Semantic Web Services Engineering
• Semantic Web Services Matchmaking
• Semantic Web Services Ontologies
• Semantic Web Services Selection
• Semantic Web Standards
• Semantic Web technologies
• Semantic Web Tools
• Semantic Web Vision
• Semantic Wiki
• Semantic-Enriched Mashups
• Semantic-Enriched Web Portals
• Semantically Aware
• Semantically Enhanced Data
• Semantically-Interlinked Online Communities (SIOC)
• Semantically Related Entities
• Semantics
• Semantics Aware Application Tools
• Semantics Aware Biological Data Integration Systems
• Semantics for Web Services
• SemWeb
• Service Composition
• Service Coordination
• Service Discovery
• Service Matchmaking
• Service Resources
• Shared Ontologies
• Simple Graph-Based Data Model
• Simple Knowledge Organization System (SKOS)
• SIOC - Semantically-Interlinked Online Communities
• SKOS - Simple Knowledge Organization System
• SOAP
• Social Collaboration
• Social Data
• Social Interactions
• Social Semantic Data
• Social Semantic Systems
• Social, Semantic Collaboration
• Social Semantic Web
• Social Web
• Social Web Applications
• Socially-Created Content
• Socially-Created Content Bases
• Socially-Created Data
• Socially-Grounded Claims
• Software Agent
• SPARQL
• SPARQL Protocol and RDF Query Language (SPARQL)
• SPARQL Endpoint
• Stability
• Standard Bibliographic Data
• Statement - RDF Statement
• Structured Controlled Vocabulary
• Structured Knowledge
• Subclass
• Subject - RDF triple subject
• Subject Headings
• SWS - Semantic Web Services
• SWS Composition - Semantic Web Services Composition

T

• Tagging
• Taxonomy

• TBox - Terminological Box

• Tera Triple (TT)
• Tera-Triple (TT)
• Teratriple (TT)

• Terminological Box (TBox)

• Terminology
• Terse RDF Triple Language (Turtle)
• Thesauri
• Thesaurus
• Top-Level Ontology
• TriG
• TriX - Triples in XML
• Triple
• Triple Graph
• Triple/Quad Store
• Triple Storage
• Triplestore
• Triplestore Implementation
• Triple Store
• Triples in XML (TriX)
• Triplification
• Trust
• Trust Information
• TT - Teratriple
• Turtle - Terse RDF Triple Language
• Typed Literal

U

• UDDI
• UML - Unified  Modelling Language
• Unicode
• Unicode Normal Form C - Unicode Normalization Form C - Normal Form C
• Unicode Normalization Form C - Unicode Normal Form C
• Unicode Normalization Forms
• Unicode Strings
• Unified  Modelling Language (UML)
• Uniform Resource Identifier (URI)
• Upper-Level Ontology
• Upper Ontology
• URI - Uniform Resource Identifier
• URI Reference
• URL

V

• Value Space (of a Datatype)
• Vocabulary
• Vocabulary Entailment
• Vocabulary Reasoning

W

• W3C
• Web
• Web Application
• Web of Data
• Web of Entities
• Web of Linked Data
• Web Ontology Language (OWL)
• Web Ontology Languages
• Web Resource
• Web Semantics
• Web Service
• Web Service Composition
• Well-Founded Deductions
• Wisdom
• WSDL
• WSDL-S
• WSMO

X

• XML - Extensible Markup Language
• XML Content
• XML Literal
• XML Literal Value
• XML-NS - Namespaces in XML
• XML Query language (XQuery)
• XML RDF Parser
• XML RDF Serialization
• XML Serialization Syntax
• XML RDF Serializer
• XMP - Extensible Metadata Platform
• XPath - XML Path Language
• XQuery - XML Query language
• XQuery Update Facility
• XSL - Extensible Stylesheet Language
• XSLT - XSL Transformations
• XTM - XML Topic Maps

Y

Z

To do pile:

• Complex RDF Path Materialization
• Dynamic Materialization
• Incremental Materialization of RDF Snapshots
• Lazy Materialization
• Linked Data Web Materialization
• Materializable RDF Graph
• Materialization of Entailed Triples
• Materialization of the Closure
• Materialization of the Transitive Closure
• Materialization On-the-Fly
• Materialization Process
• Materialization Strategies
• Materialization Time
• Materialize
• Materialize the Data
• Materialize Implicit Triples of RDF Closures
• Materialize Inferences
• Materialize Join Results
• Materialize RDF Data
• Materialize RDF Graphs
• Materialize RDF Serialization
• Materialize Relations Between Objects
• Materialized
• Materialized Inferences
• Materialized Integration
• Materialized Join Views
• Materialized Ontologies
• Materialized Ontology Views
• Materialized Path Expressions
• Materialized RDF Data
• Materialized RDF Graph
• Materialized RDF Result Graph
• Materialized RDF Snapshots
• Materialized RDF Triples
• Materialized RDF View
• Materialized RDF/S Schema
• Materialized RDFS Inference
• Materialized Views
• Materializing
• Materializing Inferred Results
• Materializing RDF
• Materializing RDF Rules
• Materializing Relational Data
• Materializing Type Information
• On-Demand Materialization
• Path Materialization
• Pre-Materialization
• Pre-Materialization of the Closures
• RDF Materialization
• RDFS Materialization
• Secure Materialized View of RDF Data
• Static Materialization
• Subject-Property Materialized Views
• Total Materialization
• Type & Property Materialization
• View Materialization
• Persistent RDF Graph Database
• KB - Knowledge Base
• multi-gigatriple
• Internet of Things (devices, sensors)
• microformat
• entity-centric RDF description
• entity-centric RDF search
• entity-centric RDF search engine
• entity-centric RDF semantic search
• HTML Embeddable RDF
• RDF Data Model
• Data Space
• RDF-based
• Non-RDF-based
• Linked Data Community
• RDF Annotation
• Semantic Web of Linked Data
• Non-RDF Data
• Non-RDF Forms of Data
• Open Data
• Faceted Browsing
• SPARQL Dataset
• SPARQL Endpoint
• SPARQL Query Federation
• Semi-Structured Data
• RDF Triple-Set Representation
• Native RDF Quad Store
• Sponger
• RDF data source
• Non-RDF data source
• Meshing
• Context
• Serendipitous Discovery
• RDFization
• RDF Data Store Queries
• Interlinked Datasets

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Updated: September 03, 2009 07:47:30 PM -0400

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