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Introduction
Towards a Semantic Web


  • The current Web represents information using
    • natural language (English, Hungarian, Finnish,...)
    • graphics, multimedia, page layout
  • Humans can process this easily
    • can deduce facts from partial information
    • can create mental associations
    • are used to various sensory information
      • (well, sort of... people with disabilities may have serious problems on the Web with rich media!)
      • (well, sort of... people with disabilities may have serious problems
      • on the Web with rich media!)

Ivan Herman, W3C 3 (134)