- From: <DPawson@rnib.org.uk>
- Date: Mon, 21 May 2001 09:50:45 +0100
- To: wai-xtech@w3.org
Sean: > [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.<delete> 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".</delete> 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. Since definitions are sought, I've marked a section as a candidate delete from the above, rationale being that how it works is partly redundant for a definition. Does that clarify? I certainly think its a fair working definition. I wonder what tbl would think of it! Regards DaveP
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