Challenges for Science on Today's Web


Difficult to Search for, Share, Aggregate Data

  • Babelization
    • Same terms, inconsistent meanings ("semantics")
    • Different terms, same meaning
    • Different terms, related (not identical) meaning

Tower of Babel
  • Computers don't understand meaning
    • Meaning conveyed by human language, graphics, layout
    • OK for human understanding
    • Difficult for machine understanding
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