- From: Sean B. Palmer <sean@mysterylights.com>
- Date: Sun, 20 May 2001 16:25:01 +0100
- To: <ryladog@earthlink.net>, "3WC WAI X-TECH" <wai-xtech@w3.org>
> more suggestions please..................Katie Since every week or so I try to put a finger on "Semantic" and the "Semantic Web", I may as well give it another try:- [Semantic] Use of adjective "semantic" is to pertain to the communication of meaning, and of the significance and connotation of concepts. [Semantic Web] The Semantic Web is a conceptual information space in which the resources identified by URIs can be processed by machines. It operates on the principles of "partial understanding" and "inference" (being able to infer new knowledge of terms from data that you already understand), and hence evolution and transformation. On an implementation basis, information is mostly represented as a set of triples (subject, predicate, object - similar to "noun verb object" in natural language), that allows machines to connect terms to one another. The relationships between the subjects and objects is often what gives the data its "meaning", and allows for the bootstrapping process to occur - for example "Zip in William's system is equivalent to Zip in Aaron's system, which is kinda like Postal Code in Sean's system". Because the URIs are being used to represent the resources, systems can grow on a globally decentralized basis, similar to hypertext documentation systems on the early WWW. -- Kindest Regards, Sean B. Palmer @prefix : <http://webns.net/roughterms/> . :Sean :hasHomepage <http://purl.org/net/sbp/> .
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