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The Semantic Web
Presentation
The overheads for the presentation are available as a PDF file (1Mb)
here.
Abstract
The World Wide Web is often referred to as a web of information, but is it?
When you ask a query on the web you get pointers to pages, not answers. If
you're looking for something beyond text, you're often unable to find it. The
next generation of the Web, already in the works, aims to fix this by making
more of the content on the web "understandable" to the programs that help us
find, filter and use what is out there. In this lecture, Professor Hendler
will describe this new generation of the web, discuss some of the technologies
that will help to power it, and consider some of the ways in which it may
change our lives.
Further information
James Hendler recently published an article on the Semantic Web with Tim
Berners-Lee and Ora Lassila in Scientific American, available on-line at
http://www.scientificamerican.com/2001/0501issue/0501berners-lee.html
Current research and developments on the Semantic Web can be accessed
through the Semantic Web Community Portal at http://www.SemanticWeb.org
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