Contents contributed and discussions participated by Michel Roland-Guill
Linked Data? Web of Data? Semantic Web? WTF? at Tom Heath's Displacement Activities - 0 views
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The first step is putting data on the Web in a form that machines can naturally understand, or converting it to that form. This creates what I call a Semantic Web – a web of data that can be processed directly or indirectly by machines.
Scientific American: Feature Article: The Semantic Web: May 2001 - 0 views
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Most of the Web's content today is designed for humans to read, not for computer programs to manipulate meaningfully. Computers can adeptly parse Web pages for layout and routine processing—here a header, there a link to another page—but in general, computers have no reliable way to process the semantics
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The Semantic Web will bring structure to the meaningful content of Web pages, creating an environment where software agents roaming from page to page can readily carry out sophisticated tasks for users.
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The Semantic Web is not a separate Web but an extension of the current one
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