Resumen de Music domain ontology applications for intelligent web searching

Maria Clara Valles, Pablo Rubén Fillottrani

• The Semantic Web is an extension of the current Web that at-tempts to reach a state in the future where everything on the Web willno longer be only machine-readable, but also machine-understandable.Three important technologies for developing the Semantic Web are al-ready in place: Extensible Markup Language (XML), the ResourceDescription Framework (RDF), and Web Ontology Language (OWL).An ontology language is a formal language used to encode ontologies.An ontology is an explicit speci¯cation of a conceptualization. Manydisciplines now develop standardized ontologies that domain expertscan use to share and annotate information in their ¯elds, and whichcan be used for reasoning about the objects within a particular do-main. It includes machine-interpretable de¯nitions of basic conceptsin the domain and relations among them. In this work, we develop anontology of Argentinean music. Despite being highly speci¯c, we illus-trate how such an ontology can be expanded and used in applicationsthat carry out complex music related searches. These applications canbe embedded later on in electronic devices with some form of wirelessnetworking capability, such as mobile phones, enriching their currentfunctionality.