How to Make a Semantic Web Browser

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How to Make a Semantic Web Browser
Dennis Quan
IBM T. J. Watson Research Center
1 Rogers Street
Cambridge, MA 02142 USA
dennisq@us.ibm.com
David R. Karger
MIT CSAIL
200 Technology Square
Cambridge, MA 02139 USA
karger@theory.lcs.mit.edu
ABSTRACT
Two important architectural choices underlie the success of the
Web: numerous, independently operated servers speak a common
protocol, and a single type of client-the Web browser-provides
point-and-click access to the content and services on these decentralized
servers. However, because HTML marries content and presentation
into a single representation, end users are often stuck with
inappropriate choices made by the Web site designer of how to work
with and view the content. RDF metadata on the Semantic Web
does not have this limitation: users can gain direct access to the
underlying information and control how it is presented for themselves.
This principle forms the basis for our Semantic Web
browser-an end user application that automatically locates metadata
and assembles point-and-click interfaces from a combination of
relevant information, ontological specifications, and presentation
knowledge, all described in RDF and retrieved dynamically from the
Semantic Web. With such a tool, na?e users can…