Categorisation of Semantic Web Applications

The recent success of the Semantic Web in re- search, technology and standardisation communities has also resulted in a large variety of different standards, technologies and tools. This diversity and heterogeneity goes along with an increasing complexity in assessing, evaluating, selecting and combining different approaches for the development of Semantic Web Applications (SWA). With this work we aim at lowering the entrance barrier for the development and engineering of Semantic Web Applications by presenting a clas- sification of SWAs according to the dimensions semantic tech- nology depth, information flow direction, richness of knowledge representation, semantic integration and user involvement. This categorisation helps to establish and consolidate the conceptualisation with regard to the engineering of SWAs and facilitates the comparability of different SWAs. With its requirements and benefits, the categorisation of SWAs can also serve as a guideline for practitioners looking into the application of semantic technologies within their use cases. We give an overview over popular SWAs and present, with Vakantieland and LinkedGeoData, two semantic web applica- tions with regard to the categorisation in detail. Keywords-Categorisation; Semantic Web; Web Applications;