A Framework for Establishing a Semantic Web in a University Web Site: A Case Study

The advent of the World Wide Web (WWW) technology has yielded an escalating demand for managing data, information and knowledge effectively. Recently, various research groups started delivering results from their semantics based on search engines, however, most of them are in their initial stages. Apparently, the current websites represent the biggest global database that lacks the existence of a proper semantic structure. Therefore, it makes it difficult for the machine to understand the information provided by the users. Unfortunately, this shortcoming is inherited in all universities web sites. Indeed, some of these websites place the information incorrectly, untidy and incomplete, which leads to a delay in ranking the university. The aim of this book is to design a framework for establishing a semantic web in a university web site in general and taking University of Gezira as a particular case. This can be accomplished by organizing the information in conceptual spaces according to its meaning by using Semantic Web and ontology. The main objective of applying the concept of the semantic web is to enhance the ranking of the university.