The SKUA Project and the Semantic Web

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Sep 2009

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Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems XVIII ASP Conference Series, Vol. 411, proceedings of the conference held 2-5 No

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The Semantic Web promises much for software developers, but because its claimed benefits are rather abstract, there is little obvious incentive to master its unfamiliar technology. In contrast, many `Social Web' applications seem rather trivial, and not obviously useful for astronomy.
The SKUA project (Semantic Knowledge Underpinning Astronomy) is implementing a service which will realise the benefits of both these web technologies. This RESTful web service gives application authors ready access to simple persistence, simple (social) sharing, and lightweight semantics, at a low software-engineering cost. The SKUA service allows applications to persist assertions (such as bookmarks and ratings), and share them between users. On top of this, it provides lightweight, astronomy-specific semantics to enhance the usefulness and retrieval of the users' data. We will demonstrate the service, and astronomical applications using it.

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