Machine usable applications and processable data -- on the
Web:
- Unique names for data, applications, descriptions,
relationships (URIs)
- Web Service-enabled applications (SOAP, WSDL, etc.)
- Common data model for expressing information (RDF)
- Common vocabulary framework (OWL)
- Communities develop their own ontologies
- Shared ontologies for widely used vocabularies
- Core math/sci, people, calendar, geospatial ...
- Mapping ontologies between community ontologies, where
needed
- Can use WS and SemWeb
technologies to interface to existing databases
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(Science
and the Semantic Web, J. Hendler, Science, Jan 2003)
