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A semantic continuum on the semantic web

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 August 2002

MIKE USCHOLD
MIKE USCHOLD
Affiliation:
The Boeing Company, PO Box 3707, m/s 7L-40, Seattle, WA USA; e-mail: [email protected]
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Abstract

In the coming years, the Web is expected to evolve from a structure containing information resources that have little or no explicit semantics to a structure having a rich semantic infrastructure. The key defining feature that is intended to distinguish the future Semantic Web from today's Web is that the content of the Web will be usable by machines (i.e. software agents). Meaning needs to be communicated between agents who advertise and/or require the ability to perform tasks on the Web. Agents also need to determine the meaning of passive (i.e. non-agent) information resources on the web to perform these tasks.

Type
Research Article
Information
The Knowledge Engineering Review , Volume 17 , Issue 1 , March 2002 , pp. 87 - 91
Copyright
© 2002 Cambridge University Press

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Footnotes

The content of this paper was first presented as an invited talk called “Where is the semantics in the Semantic Web” (Uschold, 2001b).