Applications Trong chương này chúng tôi mô tả một số ứng dụng, trong đó công nghệ được mô tả trong cuốn sách này đã được hoặc có thể được đưa vào sử dụng. Chúng tôi có, nhằm mục đích để mô tả tình huống thực tế, nếu các kịch bản chưa được thực hiện, họ là ít nhất được xem xét nghiêm túc của các công ty công nghiệp lớn trong các lĩnh vực khác nhau. Những mô tả trong chương này đưa ra một cái nhìn tổng quan chung của các loại sử dụng công nghệ Web ngữ nghĩa. | TLFeBOOK 5 Applications Introduction In this chapter we describe a number of applications in which the technology described in this book have been or could be put to use. We have aimed to describe realistic scenarios only if the scenarios are not already implemented they are at least being seriously considered by major industrial firms in different sectors. The descriptions in this chapter give a general overview of the kinds of uses to which Semantic Web technology can be applied. These include horizontal information products data integration skill-finding a think tank portal e-learning web services multimedia collection indexing on-line procurement and device interoperability. Horizontal Information Products at Elsevier The Setting Elsevier is a leading scientific publisher. Its products like those of many of its competitors are organized mainly along traditional lines subscriptions to journals. Online availability of these journals has until now not really changed the organization of the productline. Although individual papers are available online this is only in the form in which they appeared in the journal and collections of articles are organized according to the journal in which they appeared. Customers of Elsevier can take subscriptions to online content but again these subscriptions are organized according to the traditional product lines journals or bundles of journals. TLFeBOOK TLFeBOOK 180 6 Applications The Problem These traditional journals can be described as vertical products the products are split up into a number of separate columns . biology chemistry medicine and each product covers one such column or more likely part of one such column . However with the rapid developments in the various sciences information sciences life sciences physical sciences the traditional division into separate sciences covered by distinct journals is no longer satisfactory. Customers of Elsevier are instead interested in covering certain topic
