APPLING OF SEMANTIC WEB TECHNOLOGIES ON THE UNITED KINGDOM GEOGRAPHY DOMAIN

Abstract

Websites play an important role in accessing huge data and information on the World Wide Web. The problem with the Web is that Web pages are used to present data and also to refer to another Web page as a complete page and not as data identified on that page by URLs (Website identifiers), which leads to the repetition of the indicated data, which leads to the utilization of the infrastructure in non-ideal and inefficient ways. Hence it was necessary to describe the data and information on the web in multiple ways to be accessible. The Semantic Web was developed to solve this problem by referring data by other data. In this paper semantic web techniques such as Resource Description Framework (RDF), Standard Protocol and RDF Query Language (SPARQL) and Web Ontology Language (OWL) were used to describe and store data in database also invoke specific data from this vast amount of data and then represent a complex and huge information from invoked data. Semantic web technologies have been applied on a specific domain which is United Kingdom geography. The protégé software has been used to implement semantic web technologies on the United Kingdom domain and after entering data about the target domain and describing this data and information in more than one way, it became possible to execute queries on it, and the result when executing the query in different ways was to obtain the required information about this domain.