- From: Dan Brickley <danbrickley@gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 27 Dec 2006 19:27:19 -0300
- To: "Jim Hendler" <hendler@cs.umd.edu>
- Cc: www-archive@w3.org
I got an error when i posted this, so emailing... feel free to publish. You could probably persuade TimBL or others on w3t to wind back cvs to show us earlier versions of the 98 doc I mention below... --- I remember arriving at W3C MIT late summer 1999, and I think in Oct/Nov that year contrib'd to a draft of the charter for a "Semantic Web Activity" building on the previous "Metadata Activity" that gave us RDF. So the phrase was already in use in the corridors of MIT in last months of 1999. It's from before my time. The key reference at the time was http://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/Semantic.html and that doesn't seem to have been edited recently, if the CVS ID in there is reliable. It mentions "Semantic Web" in the title. The phrase was also used by a russian chap whose name escapes me, possibly earlier (1997 or so). It was the same basic concept but I think an independent usage. Sadly he died some while ago, ... I think I put an archive of his page in the www-archive@w3.org list somewhere. I can't get to google or yahoo search right now so I'll give up by now. I think the domain might have been lucifer.org or .com, not sure. I also recall ILRT folk from the DESIRE project had a poster at WWW 2000 with "Semantic Web" in it, though them was less machine reasoning, and more Metadata, human cataloguing of Web pages. The WWW94 slides from TimBL that we mutated into the SWAD-Europe t-shirt I think might have mentioned Semantics, ... but not not SemWeb. I don't have link to hand tho...
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