Descriptive representation in the semantic web context

This article presents the result of a bibliographic research developed with aim of verifying how the practices of descriptive representation are related to the proposal of Web resources organization in the Semantic Web context. The study was developed based on two main themes. The first involved concepts related to the Semantic Web with objectives of understanding which are the procedures and technology related to Semantic Web. The second concerned descriptive representation in order to understand how cataloging practices can be used to help bibliographic data insertion into the Data Web as well as to verify the actions that are being to developed in this direction. The research was developed in Portuguese and English, in papers and books in the information science area as well as in documents available in the site of the Word Wide Web Consortium. This article is based on Semantic Web and its concepts such as: linked data, vocabulary, query, inference and vertical applications. These results highlight the Resource Description Framework that is a resource description model based on Semantic Web. Based on text analysis, in examples of actions pointed out, which are being developed by some institutions, such as: Library of Congress, Dublin Core Metadata Initiative and Joint Steering Committee; and with focus on the objectives already mentioned, it can be inferred that the practices of descriptive representation are related to the Semantic Web, to the extent to which they can be applied to transform the bibliographic data into data linked to the Web.