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'Open the Pod Bay Doors, Please, HAL': Here Comes the Semantic Web
Weaver, Belinda (2003-09-01) 'Open the Pod Bay Doors, Please, HAL': Here Comes the Semantic Web. Online Currents, 18 7: 1-7.
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| Author(s) |
Weaver, Belinda
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| Title |
'Open the Pod Bay Doors, Please, HAL': Here Comes the Semantic Web
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| Journal name |
Online Currents
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2003-09-01
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18
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7
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1
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7
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| Editor(s) |
Drynan, Elizabeth
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| Subject |
280103 Information Storage, Retrieval and Management
280104 Computer-Human Interaction
280107 Global Information Systems
C3
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| Abstract |
Different kinds of knowledge management systems have been adopted by institutions in an attempt to tame the tsunami of unrelated facts, hard data, research and stray morsels of knowledge that abound in any moderately-sized organisation. Yet each of these islands of coherence, however effective, is just that - an island - and, as such, cannot provide a generalised way forward to making data usable. The Semantic Web is an attempt to solve this problem. In the context of the project, 'semantic' simply stands for 'machine-processable'. If information can be made comprehensible to machines such as computers, these machines can then do all the hard work of sorting and sifting and weighing up that is currently done (very imperfectly) by humans, and, because they are computers, they can do it more quickly and on an unimaginably huge scale. In addition, they can learn on the job so that they can make an even better fist of it the next time around, and better again the time after that.
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Semantic Web
machine processable information
XML
RDF
ontologies
knowledge management
databases
World Wide Web Consortium
WC3
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Reproduced with permission.
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