Magpie – towards a semantic web browser

Dzbor, Dr Martin and Domingue, Dr John and Motta, Prof Enrico (2003) Magpie – towards a semantic web browser. In Proceedings 2nd International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC2003), Sundial Resort, Sanibel Island, Florida, USA.

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Abstract. Web browsing involves two tasks: finding the right web page and then making sense of its content. So far, research has focused on supporting the task of finding web resources through ‘standard’ information retrieval mecha-nisms, or semantics-enhanced search. Much less attention has been paid to the second problem. In this paper we describe Magpie, a tool which supports the in-terpretation of web pages. Magpie offers complementary knowledge sources, which a reader can call upon to quickly gain access to any background knowl-edge relevant to a web resource. Magpie automatically associates an ontology-based semantic layer to web resources, allowing relevant services to be invoked within a standard web browser. Hence, Magpie may be seen as a step towards a semantic web browser. The functionality of Magpie is illustrated using exam-ples of how it has been integrated with our lab’s web resources.

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