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semantic-web
addresses problem:
- Syntactic Web [ problem ]
covers-theme
- If Ontology, Then Knowledge: Catching Up With WebOnt [ cover ]
- Weaving the Web: The Original Design and Ultimate Destiny of the World Wide Web by its Inventor [ cover ]
- Feature Article: The Semantic Web [ cover ]
has architecture:
- cake layer, TBL architecture semantic web [ architecture ]
has challenge:
- add meta data to objects [ challenge ]
- logic and inferencing [ challenge ]
- automated understanding of external data [ challenge ]
has goal:
- SW improved searching [ goal ]
- SW evolvable [ goal ]
- SW universal [ goal ]
- SW decentralized [ goal ]
- automated information processing [ goal ]
is based on:
- Web, World Wide Web [ basis ]
uses:
- RDF, Resource Description Framework [ used ]
- Web Services [ used ]
- Topic Maps [ used ]
technology
- Meta Data Technology
- Semantic Web
- Syntactic Web
- Web, World Wide Web
Types:
definition
The Semantic Web is the abstract representation of data on the World Wide Web, based on the RDF standards and other standards to be defined. It is being developed by the W3C, in collaboration with a large number of researchers and industrial partners.
observation
Semantic Web mostly academic initiative -- but big players are watching
history
launched Feb 2001: W3C Activity -- Tim Berners-Lee initiative
Comment:
SW takes ideas from AI and transfers it onto the web -- logic used like in deductive databases
quote
The Semantic Web is an extension of the current web in which information is given well-defined meaning, better enabling computers and people to work in cooperation.