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From the web of data to a world of action
This is the author’s version of a work that was accepted for publication in Web Semantics: Science, Services and Agents on the World Wide Web. Changes resulting from the publishing process, such as peer review, editing, corrections, structural formatting, and other quality control mechanisms may not be reflected in this document. Changes may have been made to this work since it was submitted for publication. A definitive version was subsequently published in Web Semantics: Science, Services and Agents on the World Wide Web 8.4
(2010): 10.1016/j.websem.2010.04.007This paper takes as its premise that the web is a place of action, not just information, and that the purpose of
global data is to serve human needs. The paper presents several component technologies, which together work
towards a vision where many small micro-applications can be threaded together using automated assistance to
enable a unified and rich interaction. These technologies include data detector technology to enable any text to
become a start point of semantic interaction; annotations for web-based services so that they can link data to
potential actions; spreading activation over personal ontologies, to allow modelling of context; algorithms for
automatically inferring 'typing' of web-form input data based on previous user inputs; and early work on inferring
task structures from action traces. Some of these have already been integrated within an experimental web-based
(extended) bookmarking tool, Snip!t, and a prototype desktop application On Time, and the paper discusses how the
components could be more fully, yet more openly, linked in terms of both architecture and interaction. As well as
contributing to the goal of an action and activity-focused web, the work also exposes a number of broader issues,
theoretical, practical, social and economic, for the Semantic Web.Parts of this work were supported by the Information
Society Technologies (IST) Program of the European
Commission as part of the DELOS Network of
Excellence on Digital Libraries (Contract G038-
507618). Thanks also to Emanuele Tracanna, Marco
Piva, and Raffaele Giuliano for their work on On
Time