Semantic Content Authoring

If you want semantically rich content as easy as you get bold, italic and underline with your text processor - loomp is your tool!

Semantic technologies, and in the first place linked data, promise further automation by turning the Web of information into a Web of interconnected and machine processable data sources. Although these technologies have reached an acceptable mature state, they are not broadly used in commercial and public Web applications. In our opinion this is mainly caused by the lack of user-tailored and easy-to-use tool support for creating and publishing semantic contents.

With the One Click Annotator (OCA) we address the issue of missing tool support for creating semantic content by non-expert users. The OCA is an editor for Web browsers for annotating words and phrases with references to ontology concepts. Our main design goal is to simplify the annotation process and provide a tool that non-expert users can easily use to create semantic content:

• clear and intuitive user interface
• simple and well-described vocabularies
• let users focus on the task of writing text.

For a more detailed description of the One Click Annotator and the loomp API we refer to our publication at the Workshop on Scripting and Development for the Semantic Web, colocated with ESWC 2010.