Using semantic web technologies for analysis and validation of structural markup. (31st October 2011)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Di Iorio, Angelo; Peroni, Silvio; Vitali, Fabio
• Is Part Of: International journal of Web engineering and technology. Volume 6:Number 4(2011)
• Page Start: 375
• Page End: 398
• Publication Date: 2011-10-31
• Subjects: document structure -- extremely annotational RDF markup -- EARMARK -- OWL -- overlapping -- structural markup ontology -- structural pattern for documents -- validation; World Wide Web -- Periodicals; Web site development -- Periodicals; Application software -- Development -- Periodicals; 006.7
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1476-1289

Abstract

An increasing part of research in the Semantic Web has been directed at making data become the main concept of the web. Plenty of languages and specifications support this transition and work by inserting additional (semantic) markup into web documents. Yet, little attention is being paid to the possibility of expressing the actual structures of the documents in a form suitable for the semantic web. EARMARK is a model for explicitly expressing structural assertions of markup and documents, allowing a straightforward integration of the semantics of the markup and the semantics of the content. The well-formedness of a hierarchy, for instance, becomes an explicit assertion and similarly the analysis of the validity of markup structures become matter for further semantic analysis. This paper describes EARMARK and shows a framework for using OWL ontologies, that implement particular markup properties, to demonstrate the compliance of EARMARK documents with those properties.