One click annotation

Abstract

Abstract. The realization of the Semantic Web as a linked machine readable Web of data depends on the availability of authoring tools that enable ordinary Web users (i.e. non-experts w.r.t. Web technologies) to create and publish semantic data. In this paper, we introduce the “One Click Annotator ” for enriching texts with RDFa annotations and linking resources through an intuitive user interface, thereby hiding the complexity of creating semantic data. With this easy to use approach we aim at contributing to the change of the Web into a Semantic Web consisting of semantic information objects and linked data. We discuss requirements, challenges, and solutions for the implementation of the annotator. 1