The existence of web pages that are described semantically via ontologies and metadata conforming to these ontologies is crucial to bring the Semantic Web to life. In this paper we address the problem of developing semantic webbased hypermedia applications through web-hypermedia design methods. For that, we propose a general approach based on extracting an ontology-based design from a traditional model-driven design , thus allowing hypermedia designers to obtain both domain ontologies and

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... ted documents in parallel with the application design without requiring extra tasks and expert know-how. This approach is presented through a specific hypermedia design method called Ariadne Development Method (ADM) and its software tool, AriadneTool, that automates a semantic extraction process to provide annotated documents in a format suitable for the semantic web, as RDFS and RDF. Moreover, a semantic web platform has been developed in order to enable the publication of the resulting semantic web-based hypermedia application.