SWedt: A Semantic Web Editor Integrating Ontologies and Semantic Annotations with Resource Description Framework

Abstract

The number of available Semantic Web tools has increased fastly over the last three years. However, currently available Semantic Web tools present a very strong limitation: almost all of them are designed to work with only one or a very few layers of the Semantic Web architecture. Despite functionalities of some layers of the Semantic Web architecture are not yet standardized, namely higher layers, there is a need for a new generation of Semantic Web tools integrating the functionalities of several layers, namely standardized layers, in order to be easily used by web users without a deep knowledge of the Semantic Web. This paper proposes the architecture and describes the implementation details of a new Semantic Web tool called Semantic Web editor integrating ontologies and semantic annotations with Resource Description Framework (SWedt). This tool integrates the majority of functionalities of fully standardized and just standardized layers of the Semantic Web architecture and allows the easy creation of Semantic Web documents by web users.