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Catholic Semantic Web

An internet that can collaborate with theologians, pastors, laity and provide tools to support the Church in it's mission of care, support and evangelisation. This is based on the World Wide Web Consortium's (w3c.org) vision and development of the semantic web.

Introduction: The Catholic Semantic Web has three key parts that will one day interact.

1) Websites with user information that is machine readable. 'Catholic XML' CXML will provide the readable aspect of this. Our website auscath.info and myauscath.info is xml friendly and can be developed to read, process and export CXML. Developing Catholic XML is part of creating a common standard for Catholic information on the Web.

2) Websites with user information that is machine processable. Developing intelligent agents to process CXML is part of the vision of cathnet.org. For example, you have travelled to a foreign city and want to go to Mass. An Intelligent Catholic Agent could automatically work out the available Mass times for you and list them relative to your current location.

3) A computer doing theology? This is part of the Catholic Semantic Web. Our jerome project (based on the sword project) seeks to provide the 'raw' information for this kind of processing. To be able to process this information in a far more detailed way, Catechism RDF is needed. We already have a Catechism XML version. We will be developing tools to create Catechism RDF and tools to utilise Catechism RDF.

Contact: Robert Zaar. rjzaar at gmail dot com

Semantic Team: Rob Zaar

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Cathnet's SVN repository — by Rob Zaar — last modified 2007-06-12 03:21: SVN stands for SubVersioN which is the code repository system cathnet uses.
Cathnet Mailing List — by Rob Zaar — last modified 2007-03-09 15:14: The main mailing list for communication between Cathnet members.
How to use irc (free instant chat) — by Rob Zaar — last modified 2007-04-02 21:29: irc is easy to setup.

Catholic Semantic Web: Semantic Web Overview; The Catholic Semantic Web; Plone and the Semantic Web; Catechism XML Flyer; Automatically Concept Map the Catechism

Proposals: Catechism RDF; Automatically Concept Map the Catechism; Catholic XML

Implementations: Auscath.info; Jerome

Links: The Home of the Semantic Web; Semantic Bible; Weaving the New Testament into the Semantic Web; Gnowsys - Zope Semantic Web Project; Encyclopedia > Semantic Web; A Network Analysis of Hermeneutic Documents Based on Bible Citations; Ulrik Petersen's Projects; Hajime Murai Research Page

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