What Is Needed? 需要什幺呢?

A resource should provide information about itself
一些资源可以提供其本身的资料
- also called “metadata”
  又称为“metadata”
- metadata stored in XML or other, machine readable form
  metadata以XML或其他可被机器读取的格式存取
- metadata vocabularies should be defined
  metadata词汇应被定义
- agents should be able to “reason” about (meta)data
  媒体应该能够“辨解”有关(meta)data
The “Semantic Web” is a metadata based infrastructure for reasoning on the Web
“语义网”是以metadata为基础去辨解网的设施

It extends the current Web (and does not replace it)
以现时的网再伸延(而并非取代它)

Ivan Herman, W3C Head of Offices

Beijing, China, 12 November, 2003

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