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Article: Where are the semantics in the semantic Web?
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- AI Magazine
- Article date:
- September 22, 2003
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The current evolution of the web can be characterized from various perspectives (Jasper and Uschold 2003):
Locating resources: The way people find things on the web is evolving from simple free text and keyword search to more sophisticated semantic techniques both for search and navigation.
Users: Web resources are evolving from being primarily intended for human consumption to being intended for use both by humans and machines.
Web tasks and services: The web is evolving from being primarily a place to find things to being a place to do things as well (Smith 2001). (1)
All these new capabilities for the web depend in a fundamental way ...