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Introduction
Towards a Semantic Web


  • The future of the Web is a universal medium for the exchange of data
  • The future of the Web is a universal medium for the

    exchange of data

  • This means applications should have access to data, too:
    • interconnection of personal information management
    • personalized services (e.g., news)
    • integrating heterogenous Web databases
    • better search engines
    • adaptive presentations (e.g., for PDA-s, phones)
    • …

    “The bane of my existence is doing things that I know the computer could do for me”

    “The bane of my existence is doing things that I know the

    computer could do for me”

    – Dan Connolly, The XML Revolution


Ivan Herman, W3C 5 (144)