Introducing W3C's Semantic Web Activity
Focussed on the Resource Description Framework (RDF) and the Web Ontology Language (OWL) to make "Web pages for machines"...
- Continues RDF/metadata work of 1997-2001: describing Web pages
- Formal, mathematically defined basis (model theoretic and axiomatic)
- Designed for Web use: distributed, fragmented information
- RDF descriptions depend upon "vocabularies" defined using RDFS/OWL
- Independent vocabularies can be combined for richer description
- Can integrate pre-existing thesauri, classification systems, electronic dictionaries...