Towards a Semantic Web
The current Web represents information using
natural language (English, Hungarian, Chinese,...)
graphics, multimedia, page layout
This is okay for humans; difficult for machines!
For distributed applications:
automatic procedures are involved and not (only) humans
agents try to make "sense" of resources on the Web
a well defined terminology on the domain is necessary
Ivan Herman, W3C Head of Offices
Hong Kong, September 3rd, 2002
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