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August 22, 2005
Metadata and the Semantic Web
Excellent Research paper on the semantic web and metadata.
From the perspective of a librarian, cataloger, publisher, or content provider, the Semantic Web is a metadata initiative; at the heart of the Semantic Web is the assumption that adding formal metadata that describes a Web resource’s content and the meaning of its links is going to substantially change the nature of the way computers and people find material and use it. Because there are a variety of metadata efforts underway – that is, the Semantic Web is a metadata initiative among many – it is important to evaluate the Semantic Web in this context (Marshall and Shipman, 2003).
Marshall, C. & Shipman, F. (2003) Which Semantic Web? Proceedings of the 2003. International Conference on Hypertext. Nottingham, UK: The Association of Computing Machinery.
Posted by Todd at August 22, 2005 4:44 PM
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I think the semantic web would be an effective tool for those who seek knowledge, infos etc (that makes everyone of as!:D)
Hard to achieve but yet very meaningful and important for today’s society of information.
Posted by: nora at August 29, 2005 4:17 AM
You must have made a typo here. The URL is for the presentation "Is the semantic web hype?", by Mark Butler, while the text reference is for the paper "Which Semantic Web?" wich has the URL:
http://www.ht03.org/papers/pdfs/7.pdf
Posted by: Are Gulbrandsen at September 6, 2005 9:53 AM