Semantic Web

Question 1

Semantic web

Answer 1

Promotes common data formats and exchange protocols on the Web. These standards aim to help machines better understand meaning and context.

Question 2

What’s the difference between HTML and XML?

Answer 2

HTML focuses on how data is displayed, XML focuses on what data means.

Question 3

True or false: XML is more machine readable than HTML

Answer 3

True! XML separates information into tags that are specific and relevant to the data being stored.

Question 4

Ontology

Answer 4

Categorising information according to real-world associations (e.g. undergraduates would be part of a table containing students)

Question 5

How do ontologies make search engines more accurate?

Answer 5

It can look for pages that refer to a precise concept in an ontology instead of collecting all pages in which certain keywords occur.

Question 6

RDF

Answer 6

Data model for relations between objects

Question 7

RDF object types

Answer 7

Resources, properties and statements

Question 8

True or false: Statements always have to be true or false

Answer 8

False! A statement can be neither true or false.

Question 9

Confidence interval

Answer 9

The likelihood that a statement is true or false