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Semantic Web, Ontologies, OWL
Possible Issues to Handle


  • What are the possible terms?
    • “is the set of metadata terms known to the program?”
  • Are the properties used correctly?
    • “do they make sense for the resources?”
  • Can a program reason about some terms? Eg:
    • “if «A» is left of «B» and «B» is left of «C», is «A» left of «C»?”
    • obviously true for humans, not obvious for a program …
    • … programs should be able to deduce such statements
  • If somebody else defines a set of terms: are they the same?
    • obvious issue in an international context

Ivan Herman, W3C 55 (76)