Data & Machines
Computers co-operate through the Web
goal is to achieve an improved user experience
Typical applications:
search engines, on-line catalogues, news services,
user profiling, e-commerce, shared computing resources,
computational services (stock values, translations, weather, ...)
Two major approaches emerge:
(remote) service based
metadata based
Ivan Herman
, W3C Head of Offices
Sydney, 18 August, 2003
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