Bizer, C.; Mendes, P.N.; Jentzsch, A.: Topology of the Web of Data (2012)
0.03
0.034342196 = product of:
0.13736878 = sum of:
0.13736878 = weight(_text_:html in 1425) [ClassicSimilarity], result of:
0.13736878 = score(doc=1425,freq=6.0), product of:
0.3486287 = queryWeight, product of:
5.1475344 = idf(docFreq=701, maxDocs=44421)
0.06772732 = queryNorm
0.39402604 = fieldWeight in 1425, product of:
2.4494898 = tf(freq=6.0), with freq of:
6.0 = termFreq=6.0
5.1475344 = idf(docFreq=701, maxDocs=44421)
0.03125 = fieldNorm(doc=1425)
0.25 = coord(1/4)
- Abstract
- The degree of structure of Web content is the determining factor for the types of functionality that search engines can provide. The more well structured the Web content is, the easier it is for search engines to understand Web content and provide advanced functionality, such as faceted filtering or the aggregation of content from multiple Web sites, based on this understanding. Today, most Web sites are generated from structured data that is stored in relational databases. Thus, it does not require too much extra effort for Web sites to publish this structured data directly on the Web in addition to HTML pages, and thus help search engines to understand Web content and provide improved functionality. An early approach to realize this idea and help search engines to understand Web content is Microformats, a technique for markingup structured data about specific types on entities-such as tags, blog posts, people, or reviews-within HTML pages. As Microformats are focused on a few entity types, the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) started in 2004 to standardize RDFa as an alternative, more generic language for embedding any type of data into HTML pages. Today, major search engines such as Google, Yahoo, and Bing extract Microformat and RDFa data describing products, reviews, persons, events, and recipes from Web pages and use the extracted data to improve the user's search experience. The search engines have started to aggregate structured data from different Web sites and augment their search results with these aggregated information units in the form of rich snippets which combine, for instance, data This chapter gives an overview of the topology of the Web of Data that has been created by publishing data on the Web using the microformats RDFa, Microdata and Linked Data publishing techniques.
