Patent ID: 7490094

Claim:
A computer implemented method for determining importance of semantic web resources, said resources being either a class or a non-class resource, and each non-class resource belonging to one or more classes, and each class resource being a subclass of one or more parent classes, the method comprising: determining a subjectivity score for each resource of a set of resources based on a number of Resource Description Format (RDF) triples of which said resource is a subject of and predefined weights of the properties of said triples; determining an objectivity score for each said resource based on the number of RDF triples of which the resource is an object of and predefined weights of properties of the triples; determining an importance of a class resource from said subjectivity score and objectivity score, and a factor relating to an importance of the parents of said classes; and determining an importance of a non-class resource from said subjectivity score and objectivity score, and a factor relating to an importance of the classes to which the resource belongs.