The Semantic Web is an extension of the current Web in which information is given a well-defined meaning, better enabling computers and people to work in cooperation.
It is the idea of having data on the Web defined and linked in a way that it can be used for more effective discovery, automation, integration and reuse across various applications.
The Web can reach its full potential if it becomes a place where data can be processed by automated tools as well as people”
Semantic Web enables information access, integration, interoperation and consistency.
When we need to write a report or ask a question that involves data in different spreadsheets, databases and the web we frequently waste time cutting and pasting to get the answer. The Semantic Web is a major initiative that has solved this problem completely.
Our Product - SDS - is a complete implementation of the Semantic Web on your Desktop.
SDS breaks new ground by using Semantic power to enable business people to get answers from their data - answers that would previously have taken impossible amounts of programming cost and time.
Consider these real world examples that SDS solves economically with zero programming:
- A Program Director has multiple Microsoft Project plans and Excel Spreadsheets in different formats and needs a clear unified picture of what is going on - her Project Support Office spends days cutting and pasting data to get answers, often too late and with a big worry about data quality.
- A Scientist has multiple Oracle databases with Gene data in one, Compound data in another along with multiple Affymetrix spreadsheets. He needs to compare expression data for one gene at a time and has to spend time cutting and pasting data to get the answers, but with so many rows of data the task can never be completed in a reasonable time.
- The US Environmental Protection Agency publishes hundreds of spreadsheets containing data, broken down by geography, on Air and Water Quality as well as Health statistics by demographic. Analysts may want to research any link between toxic gas emission in one area to trends in poor health in another, but they have hundreds of questions and each one requires programming, so the job can never be completed.
SDS solves these problems very easily and in a completely novel way because in the Semantic Web, "Everything is Connected". In practical terms this means that it is much, much easier to ask questions of your data.
You can see exactly how much easier in this SDS video, where spreadsheets, database tables and web data appear as 'Concepts' connected by 'Relationships'. This approach revolutionises the process of asking a question - now you simply click on two or more Concepts and the Semantics compute the answer for you - letting you skip to the next question as fast as you can click on your mouse.
Whenever you connect to your data sources SDS automatically builds you a Semantic Model which you can extend and share with others. Many publicly available Semantic models that encapsulate great expertise are now available for you to leverage freely.
Find out more about the advantages of the Semantic approach by downloading SDS today.
Why Choose SDS?
SDS Business - SDS lets you answer complex questions using an entirely graphical Semantic Web approach.
SDS Technical - SDS presents Oracle, Excel and Web Services as a virtual RDF store - data left in situ - SDS and other tools then query RDF with SPARQL.
SDS solves desktop problems such as integrating multiple Excel Spreadsheets so that questions can be asked that span them
SDS supports Controlled OWL Vocabularies that leverage organisation wide efforts to improve data quality
SDS easily enables the exchange of models between colleagues so that embedded expertise and hypotheses can be leveraged efficiently
