Web Services and Semantic Web
- Many orgs have data stores and programs to share
- Goal: Expanding Web of machine accessible
resources
- Web Services: Web of
applications*
- Standards for interactions between programs on the Web
- Business roots. Strong vendor / marketing push.
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- Semantic Web: Web of
data*
- Standards for data, relationships, descriptions on the Web
- Academic roots. Development accelerating.
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- Vision: A single Web of applications and data
- Many in business, academia, gov't moving in this direction.
* abstractions :-)