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Introduction
The Semantic Web is Not


  • “Artificial Intelligence on the Web”
    • although it uses elements of logic…
    • … it is much more down-to-Earth (we will see later)
    • it is all about properly representing and characterizing metadata
    • of course: AI systems may use the metadata of the SW
      • but it is a layer way above it
  • “A purely academic research topic”
    • SW is out of the university labs now
    • lots of applications exist already (see examples later)
    • big players of the industry use it (Sun, Adobe, HP, IBM,…)
    • of course, much is still be done!

Ivan Herman, W3C 8 (134)