The combination of Web 2.0 with Semantic Technologies promises to facilitate collaborative knowledge sharing and discovery while providing an effective user-centered design. Jigs4OWL is such a combination. It is a semantic mashup framework which offers a web-enabled semantic infrastructure while hiding all non-relevant technical details. It allows to easily build web browser applications with the help of customizable widgets which aggregate, visualize, and mashup semantic content. The framework can be either driven as an internal or external service or employed on-demand from a framework service provider.
This half day tutorial at FIS 2010 provides a practical introduction to Jisg4OWL from the perspective of both, an end-user as well as application developer. It will sketch the basic architecture of the framework and introduces its widgets. The tutorial will enable participant to compile their own Jigs4OWL mashup utilizing their respective data.
This tutorial aims at people interested in employing as well as building semantic applications. The tutorial is comprehensible even for participants with a basic understanding of languages such as RDF Schema or OWL. For the code level demonstration part of the tutorial some elementary programming experiences would be helpful.
Please also note the Jigs4OWL terms of use and data privacy conditions.