Speaker
Bebo White
(STANFORD LINEAR ACCELERATOR CENTER (SLAC))
Description
The Semantic Web shows great potential in the HEP community as an aggregation
mechanism for weakly structured data and a knowledge management tool for acquiring,
accessing, and maintaining knowledge within experimental collaborations. FOAF
(Friend-Of-A-Friend) (http://www.foaf-project.org/) is an RDFS/OWL ontology (some of
the fundamental Semantic Web technologies) for expressing information about persons
and their relationships. FOAF has become an active collaborative project that has
evolved into a flexible and practically used ontology. The HEPNames database
(http://www.slac.stanford.edu/spires/hepnames/about.shtml) is a comprehensive and
widely used directory of individuals involved in HEP and related fields. The data in
HEPNames is compiled from numerous sources, including laboratory directories and user
supplied information. This paper will describe efforts for expanding the FOAF profile
information with that data present in HEPNames thereby providing an expanded,
machine-readable data format for HEP collaborator information that is understandable
to HEP Semantic Web applications.
Primary author
Bebo White
(STANFORD LINEAR ACCELERATOR CENTER (SLAC))
