- From: Benny Gustavsson <benny.gustavsson@mailbox.swipnet.se>
- Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:25:10 +0200
- To: "John Yen" <yen@cs.tamu.edu>
- Cc: "Semantic Web" <semantic-web@w3.org>
Yen, > Semantic Web certainly includes meta web. However, I believe it > is more than the meta data in an important way: > > The "meata data" needs to be associated with an ontology. > In another word, the meaning and the interpretation of the meta > data depends on the context (i.e., the associated ontology) rather than > being universal. Perhaps I was a bit too fuzzy, but I did not mean that it should only be "un-grounded" metadata. I hope that the image [1] could make my fuzzy ideas clearer, even if the image is a bit chaotic ;-) [1] http://www.araby-dalbo.com/users/1131/21207/200104/metaweb.jpg Thanks for your feedback! Benny
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