W3C Semantic Goals
- Realizing the full potential of the Web
- Making it cost-effective for people to effectively record
their knowledge.
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Focus on machine consumption.
- "The Semantic Web is an extension of the
current web in which information is given well-defined
meaning, better enabling computers and people to work in
cooperation." -- Tim Berners-Lee, James Hendler,
Ora Lassila, The Semantic Web
- "The bane of my existence is doing things that
I know the computer could do for me." -- Dan
Connolly, The XML Revolution
- Ultimate goal - effective and efficent global knowledge
exchange
