Information Realisation: Textual, Graphical and Audial Representations of
the Semantic Web
Abstract
Information Realisation is the process of presenting data as Textual, Graphical
or Audial information to a human user. In this paper, we discuss the importance
of this concept with respect to the accessibility of Semantic Web data to a
diverse target audience. We provide an ontological point of view, defining the
expressive characteristics and application domain of representation formats,
thus presenting a system which produces representations customised to the user
environment and the nature of the source data. Our approach considers the
semantics of the data, not just the structure, and aims to present the
information in the most semantically appropriate manner for the given target
environment. We provide examples of a simple data set being realised as popular
target representation formats: textual (XHTML, RSS); graphical (SVG, X3D); and
audial (SoundML, VoiceXML).
Last update: 2006-07-27
