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Semantic Web, Introduction
What Is Needed?


  • A resource should provide information about itself
    • also called “metadata”
    • metadata stored in XML or other, machine readable form
    • metadata vocabularies should be defined
    • agents should be able to “reason” about (meta)data

    The “Semantic Web” is a metadata based infrastructure for reasoning on the Web

    The “Semantic Web” is a metadata based infrastructure for

    reasoning on the Web

  • It extends the current Web (and does not replace it)

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