Data & Machines, Metadata Based
Metadata
is added to Web resources
they describe
properties
of the resource
Metadata
vocabularies
(ontologies) can be developed
makes a logical reasoning on the metadata possible, e.g.
“if this property is true, then that property is true…”
“this property is that same as that property…”
etc.
Applications are based on analysing the metadata
e.g., search engines
This is the area of the
Semantic Web
“an infrastructure for reasoning on the Web”
See the
separate presentation…
Ivan Herman
, W3C Head of Offices
Beijing, China, 12 November, 2003
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