Project Goals

Focus on demonstrating the use of Semantic Web technologies in intelligence use.

1. Connecting unstructured inputs to rich metadata
2. Bringing in information from "open" sources - provenance
   • tracking who entered the information
   • tracking where the information came from
3. Using (multiple) ontologies in OWL
   • To help with annotation
   • To organize information display
   • To manage import/export of unstructured and semi-structured data
4. Image and subimage annotation and display
5. Demonstrating new information portal management tools enabled by the Semantic Web

Technologies Used

This project concentrates on the use of Semantic Web technologies

• The Web Ontology Language OWL
• RDF Databases
• RDF Query for page generation
• Equivalence and inverse inferencing
• Limited classification (OWL DL)
• RDF/XML syntax for data exchange
• RDF/N3 syntax for human readability
• Sem Web Integration w/standard Web tools
  • HTTP protocol based (standard server software)
  • Universal Resource Identifiers for web-based access
  • XSLT and Perl for portal presentation (HTML-like view)

Architecture

A high-level architecture diagram.

DEMO

http://swint.mindswap.org

Future Work

Current Project focus is on showing "end to end" capability, future work will deepen the individual capabilities

• Other media: extend markup/display to NITF, speech, video
• Geo-registration: add time, space metadata to information
• Distributed Access/query: import/export of information to/from other "graph-based" repositories
• Policy Aware Web: new approach to access, privacy, rule-based security
• Semantic Web Service provision: WSDL for ontology and geospatial remote "query"
• Multi-view collaborative work: extend portal to tool APIs to remove central server