What Is Needed (Technically)?
To make metadata machine processable, we need:
unambiguous names for resources (URIs)
a common data model for expressing metadata (RDF)
and ways to access the metadata on the Web
common vocabularies (Ontologies)
The “Semantic Web” is a metadata based infrastructure for reasoning on the Web
It
extends
the current Web (and does not replace it)
Ivan Herman
, W3C Head of Offices
© 1994-2004, W3C (MIT,ERCIM,Keio)
Edinburgh, 7 April, 2004
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