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Introduction
What Is Needed (Technically)?


  • To make metadata machine processable, we need:
    • unambiguous names for resources (URIs)
    • a common data model for expressing metadata (RDF)
      • and ways to access the metadata on the Web
    • common vocabularies (Ontologies)
  • 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)

Ivan Herman, W3C 9 (143)