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 :-)