Publishing Semantic Web Content as Semantically Linked HTML Pages

Abstract

The Resource Description Framework RDF is used to describe content, such as HTML pages and other documents, for the machines to interpret on the Semantic Web. In contrast, we consider the problem of rendering RDF content for the human interpreter by transforming RDF descriptions into semantically linked HTML pages. In our approach, the layout of the pages is described by HTML templates and the semantic linkage structure of the page repository is defined in terms of logical rules based on the RDF repository. The rules are mapped on the HTML level using template tags. This approach provides a simple method for creating and publishing a human readable version of RDF content on the web. We present a tool called SWeHG for generating a static, semantically linked site of HTML pages from an RDF repository. As a case application, a web exhibition is generated from a museum photo collection. 1.