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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