The nature of the Semantic Web

Just a pointer to an interesting summary by one of the pioneers of the Semantic Web, Jim Hendler:

The Semantic Web is based on the relatively straightforward idea that to be able to integrate (link) data on the Web we must have some mechanism for knowing what relationships hold among the data, and how that relates to some “real world” context. Read on here …

[From What is the Semantic Web really all about? – Web Science – the World of the World Wide Web – James Hendler’s blog on Nature Network]

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