Magpie Towards a semantic web browser

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within a standard web browser. Hence, Magpie may be seen as a step towards a. semantic web browser. The functionality of Magpie is illustrated using exam- …

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Magpie - towards a semantic web browser
Martin Dzbor, John Domingue, and Enrico Motta
Knowledge Media Institute, The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK
{M.Dzbor, J.B.Domingue, E.Motta} @open.ac.uk
Abstract. Web browsing involves two tasks: finding the right web page and
then making sense of its content. So far, research has focused on supporting the
task of finding web resources through ’standard’ information retrieval mechanisms,
or semantics-enhanced search. Much less attention has been paid to the
second problem. In this paper we describe Magpie, a tool which supports the
interpretation of web pages. Magpie offers complementary knowledge sources,
which a reader can call upon to quickly gain access to any background knowledge
relevant to a web resource. Magpie automatically associates an ontologybased
semantic layer to web resources, allowing relevant services to be invoked
within a standard web browser. Hence, Magpie may be seen as a step towards a
semantic web browser. The functionality of Magpie is illustrated using examples
of how it has been integrated with our lab’s web resources.
1 INTRODUCTION
Web browsing involves two basic tasks: (i) finding the right web page and (ii) making
sense of its…