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XML and the Web
XML World 2000
Boston 2000/09/06
Tim Berners-Lee
Director, World Wide Web Consortium
(other talks)
Relationship
The Web
The Universe of network-accessible information
XML
A universal language for structured documents and data on the Web
A W3C Recommendation and one W3C activity of many
Web
On the Web == has a URI
- Documents, of course
- People - indirectly
- Anything - indirectly
XML
- Namespaces => element types have URI (...)
- Elements have URIs
- Concepts in data and documents have URIs
- everything can have a URI
- URIs still not completely integrated with XML
Namespaces remove ambiguity
Why these terms must have URIs
- Anyone can make one
- Independent invention of concepts
- Retrospective documentation of equivalence
Universal space ...
...allows mixing
URI space
- Think of names, not addresses
- Think about persistence of URIs
- Make sure everything of importance has one
Building the future
Business reasons
A mental leap to when semantic links are everywhere
- Exposing data to analysis E.g. Compatability of parts in catalog
- Evolution of ontologies
- Representing Trust on the web
Using XML on a shelf doesn't count. Use it on the Web.
Thank you
For details of World Wide Web Consortium:
http://www.w3.org/
For slides on the web:
http://www.w3.org/2000/Talks/0906-xmlweb-tbl
Tim Berners-Lee, W3C Director
MIT-Laboratory for Computer Science
2000