Data based automation (cont)
Metadata refer to general URI-s
one can define metadata on data
somewhere else
"cataloging services" become feasible, for example
the Web can be viewed as a big database with sophisticated
search and retrieval facilities
This is the area of the
Semantic Web
"an infrastructure for reasoning on the Web"
Ivan Herman, W3C Head of Offices
Egmond aan Zee, 12 November, 2002
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