Hera-S: web design using sesame

Web application design methods traditionally aim to reduce complexity in implementing Web applications. However, these methods struggle with providing the necessary dynamics and flexibility to keep up with the increasing users' demand for personalization and feedback mechanisms. We present Hera-S, based on Sesame and the SeRQL query language that does provide the necessary flexibility. Hera-S allows designers the plain use of the Semantic Web languages RDFS and OWL for designing the domain model and the context data model, thus enabling re-use of existing data models and opening up the RDF instance data to queries and updates via the Sesame RDF-framework.