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Introduction

Hello,

this is the main page of Fortunata's wiki page. On the left side of this page you can see links to OMEMO and VPOET, the testing applications developed under the Fortunata's phylosophy.

Are you in a hurry? You can see a personalized HTML renderization of a given semantic data set clicking here, or a specific data in the set clicking here.

The Fortunata's code is available at Google Code

What is Fortunata?

The Semantic Web exists insofar as the information intended for automatic-processing on the ordinary Web is significantly increasing. This information comprises ontologies and RDF-data referring to them. It is estimated (see [Warren and Baker 2005][1] and [Ding et al. 2004][2]) that there are around 11,000 ontologies available on the Internet, and however the amount of semantic contents available is still scarce, especially if compared to the growth rate of the non-semantic Web. We believe that this lack of semantic contents is due to the convergence of two factors: (1) the inherent difficulty to create Web applications, and (2) the complexity of the Semantic Web technologies.

This work focuses on two aspects. The first one is how to simplify the process of semantic contents creation. The second one is how human users can easily obtain some benefit from these semantic contents. In either aspect we consider that users have null or minimal knowledge about Semantic Web technologies. To leverage the former we take advantage of wikis, one of the most successful approaches in the last years. On top of JSPWiki infrastructure we have built a semantic layer, called Fortunata, to create Semantic Web applications. To deal with the latter, we have designed a collaborative Fortunata-based tool to create visualization templates for ontology elements (namely VPOET). These templates are published as semantic data, so that they can be used by HCI agents ("semantic agents"). Also, a HTTP GET/POST channel has been created. Human users can use this channel to get access to the semantic templates or query about “the most appropriated” visualization for a given user profile. This user profile contains data about the interactive impairments of the user, its interaction device, or its aesthetical preferences.

Over this HTTP Channel, a Google Gadget has been created. See VPOET Google Gadget

This is the big picture of Fortunata and their parties.

Starting over

If you are new about wiki syntax, this is a sandbox where you can play with JSPWiki sintax. Enjoy!

If you are a developer interested in creating semantic web applications, have a look at the Developers tutorial

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