Semantic Web Principles

Evolution

• The Semantic Web must permit distributed communities to work independently to increase the Web of understanding, adding new information without insisting that the old be modified. This approach allows the communities to resolve ambiguities and clarify inconsistencies over time while taking maximum advantage of the wealth of backgrounds and abilities reachable through the Web. Therefore the Semantic Web must be based on a facility that can expand as human understanding expands. This facility must be able to capture information that links independent representations of overlapping areas of knowledge.