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Data based automation (cont)
- Metadata refer to general URIs
- one can define metadata on resources somewhere else
- ("cataloguing services" become feasible, for example)
- one can define metadata on resources somewhere else ("cataloguing services" become feasible, for example)
- one can combine metadata from different sources
- the Web can be viewed as a big database with sophisticated
search and retrieval facilities
- the Web can be viewed as a big database with sophisticated search and retrieval facilities
- This is the area of the Semantic Web
- "an infrastructure for reasoning on the Web"
| Ivan Herman, W3C Head of Offices | Brussels, 24 June, 2003 | 13 (23) |