Glossary
Searchable terminology from accessibility, web standards, and related fields.
13 results found in Semantic Web.
- Chemical Markup Language (CML)
- An XML-based markup language for representing chemical information including molecular structures, reactions, spectra, and other chemical data in a machine-readable format. CML encodes atoms, bonds, a…
- Content Dictionary (CD, OpenMath Content Dictionary)
- A formal specification in the OpenMath standard that provides the definition, description, and properties of a collection of related mathematical symbols. Each Content Dictionary defines symbols used …
- Document Semantics (Page Semantics, Web Document Semantics)
- Document semantics refers to the layers of meaning embedded in a web page that go beyond the raw HTML markup — including layout semantics (spatial relationships between visual elements), content seman…
- Linked Data (Linked Open Data, LOD)
- A method of publishing structured data on the web so that it can be interlinked and queried across different sources using Semantic Web technologies such as RDF, URIs, and SPARQL. Linked Data principl…
- Microformats (uFormats)
- Microformats are a set of simple, open data formats built upon existing HTML standards that add machine-readable semantic meaning to web content by using standardized class names and HTML attributes. …
- OWL (Web Ontology Language, OWL 2)
- The Web Ontology Language (OWL) is a W3C standard for defining and instantiating formal ontologies on the web, enabling machines to interpret the meaning and relationships of information rather than j…
- OpenMath
- An XML-based standard for representing mathematical objects and their semantics in a machine-readable format. Unlike MathML, which has both presentation (visual layout) and content (semantic structure…
- Semantic Abstraction
- The practice of defining interface elements, content, or interactions by their meaning and purpose rather than their specific visual or physical presentation. In accessibility, semantic abstraction is…
- Semantic Bookmarking (Semantic Bookmark, Concept-Based Bookmarking)
- A web navigation technique that associates saved page locations with meaningful conceptual labels from a domain ontology rather than with specific structural positions in the HTML code. Unlike traditi…
- Semantic Partitioning (Web Page Partitioning, Content Partitioning)
- A technique for automatically dividing a web page into semantically meaningful segments or blocks based on the structural and visual properties of its HTML content. Semantic partitioning analyzes the …
- UI Semantics (User Interface Semantics, Interface Semantics)
- The meaningful properties and roles of user interface elements that go beyond their visual appearance, including what an element does, how it can be interacted with, and its relationship to other elem…
- Upper Ontology (Foundation Ontology, Top-level Ontology)
- An upper ontology is a high-level, domain-independent ontology that describes very general concepts — such as 'object', 'role', 'event', 'time', or, in a web-accessibility context, generic structural …
- XML (Extensible Markup Language)
- A markup language designed by the W3C for encoding structured data in a format that is both human-readable and machine-readable. Unlike HTML, which has a fixed set of tags focused on presentation, XML…