Interactive knowledge capture in the new millennium: how the Semantic Web changed everything

Yolanda Gil; Yolanda Gil

doi:10.1017/S0269888910000408

Abstract: The Semantic Web has radically changed the landscape of knowledge acquisition research. It used to be the case that a single user would edit a local knowledge base, that the user would have domain expertise to add to the system, and that the system would have a centralized knowledge base and reasoner. The world surrounding knowledge-rich systems changed drastically with the advent of the Web, and many of the original assumptions were no longer a given. Those assumptions had to be revisited and addressed in combination with new challenges that were put forward. Knowledge-rich systems today are distributed, have many users with different degrees of expertise, and integrate many shared knowledge sources of varying quality. Recent work in interactive knowledge capture includes new and exciting research on collaborative knowledge sharing, collecting knowledge from Web volunteers, and capturing knowledge provenance.

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Interactive knowledge capture in the new millennium: how the Semantic Web changed everything

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Published online: 07 February 2011

Abstract: Abstract: The Semantic Web has radically changed the landscape of knowledge acquisition research. It used to be the case that a single user would edit a local knowledge base, that the user would have domain expertise to add to the system, and that the system would have a centralized knowledge base and reasoner. The world surrounding knowledge-rich systems changed drastically with the advent of the Web, and many of the original assumptions were no longer a given. Those assumptions had to be revisited and addressed in combination with new challenges that were put forward. Knowledge-rich systems today are distributed, have many users with different degrees of expertise, and integrate many shared knowledge sources of varying quality. Recent work in interactive knowledge capture includes new and exciting research on collaborative knowledge sharing, collecting knowledge from Web volunteers, and capturing knowledge provenance.

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I would like to thank all my collaborators over the years for their inspiration and contributions to the research described here. I am also thankful for the funding provided for this work by grants from a number of sources, including the Air Force Office of Scientific Research, the Air Force Research Laboratories, the Defense Advanced Projects Agency, the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity, the National Institutes of Health, and the National Science Foundation. For this article, I gratefully acknowledge support from the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency under grant number HR0011-07-C-0060.

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Yolanda Gil. 2011. Interactive knowledge capture in the new millennium: how the Semantic Web changed everything. The Knowledge Engineering Review. 26:8 doi: 10.1017/S0269888910000408

Yolanda Gil. 2011. Interactive knowledge capture in the new millennium: how the Semantic Web changed everything. The Knowledge Engineering Review. 26:8 doi: 10.1017/S0269888910000408

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