Analysis and Visualization of Biological Publication Data

The content of today’s World Wide Web is semantically not well structured. Every-thing is built for people and the data is therefore machine-readable but not machine- understandable. The semantic Web provides a solution for this problem through a new form of content structure. One technology for developing the Semantic Web is the Resource Description Framework (RDF).

RDF is a language for representing information about resources in the World Wide Web and is particularly intended for representing metadata about Web resources. Therefore RDF provides ‘interoperability’ between applications that exchange machine-understandable information on the Web. In this work, existing biological publication data which is stored in an object-relational database, is transformed into data represented in RDF. With the newly created RDF model it is possible to make a new way of queries, not only key word searching, but also queries with semantic sense. The additional advantage oft his representation is that it can be described not only in triples or XML structure but also in directed graphs. ...