Elements of a National SemanticWeb Infrastructure--Case Study Finland on the Semantic Web

Abstract

This article presents the vision and results of creating the basis for a national semantic Web content infrastructure in Finland in 2003-2007. The main elements of the infrastructure are shared and open metadata schemas, core ontologies, and public ontology services. Several practical applications testing and demonstrating the usefulness of the infrastructure are overviewed in the fields of eculture, ehealth, egovernment, elearning, and ecommerce.