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RDF/XML Help

Posted: Tue Feb 20, 2007 10:54 am
by stressed_student
Hi,

I am a final year student at Bournemouth University. For my final year project I have chosen to investigate into the Semantic Web and thus also RDF/XML. My hypothesis is that "the use of semantic web technology will improve the relevancy of search results on an e-commerce website".

I have done some background research and created a few basic RDF triples but I am really struggling with what exactly I could build to test this hypothesis. My thinking was that Semantic Web searches would retrieve additional results that a non-Semantic search wouldnt due to syntax problems. For example, when searching for a people carrier, a Semantic search system would also return results for MPVs even if the word people carrier isnt mentioned.

Any ideas for a build to test this hypothesis would be greatly appreciated. it needs to be as simple as possible coz Im struggling to understand it all.

Thanks

James


Also does anyone know if there is an API for RDF for use with ASP (not .NET) as there is for PHP.