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The Semantic Web: A Primer
by Edd Dumbill
November 01, 2000
Table of Contents
•The Technologies
•XHTML and XSLT
•RDF, RDF Schemas and Ontologies
•XML Protocol Technology
•Getting Started with Development
•RDF Application Frameworks
•Applications
•The Future
Introduction
The Semantic Web lies at the heart of Tim Berners-Lee's vision for the future of the World Wide Web. Along with others at the W3C Berners-Lee is working on the infrastructure for this next stage of the Web's life. But the question "What is the Semantic Web?" is being asked with increasing frequency. While mainstream media is content with a high level view, XML developers want to know more, and they want to discover the substance behind the vision.
Accusations of fuzziness about the Semantic Web (SW) have been levelled at Berners-Lee, and it is certainly true that he has yet to deliver the long-awaited "Semantic Web Whitepaper." However, there are interesting suggestions in his
Semantic Web Roadmap text which give details about the direction he wants to go. Furthermore,
SW activity at the W3C and MIT/LCS has been increasing in intensity, and community involvement with RDF, a key SW technology, has increased markedly over recent months.
In his Roadmap document, Berners-Lee contrasts the Semantic Web with the existing, merely human-readable Web: "the Semantic Web approach instead develops languages for expressing information in a machine processable form." This is perhaps the best way of summing up the Semantic Web -- technologies for enabling machines to make more sense of the Web, with the result of making the Web more useful for humans.
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