Hello, Thanks a lot. I have had great inputs, but I think I should add the replay from Ivan Herman here too. so here it is: ******************************************************* SW is to achieve integration of data on the Web. The various SW technologies are tools to achieve that. A SW application is the one which, well, does that.... Ehsan Sadeghi wrote: > Hello, > I have been trying to understand the difference betweeb normal web > applications and semantic web applications. I have tried different > places and books but I have become more confused. > If a system uses RDF or an agent system or an ontology does that make > it a semantic web application? or a semantic web application is an > application that creates a network of logically connected data/resource > with any means? lets say with a database. Depends... in general, SW application means connected data resources, but using the SW tools (ie, at the moment, RDF & co) Ivan > with regards, > Ehsan Sadeghi -- Ivan Herman, W3C Semantic Web Activity Lead Home: http://www.w3.org/People/Ivan/ PGP Key: http://www.ivan-herman.net/pgpkey.html FOAF: http://www.ivan-herman.net/foaf.rdf -- **************************************************** Thanks again Ehsan Sadeghi. Home: I'm homeless PGP Key: Currently I'm a lost sole FOAF: I'm nobody. Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/mail/Received on Friday, 7 December 2007 12:30:06 UTC
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