The Emerging Semantic Web

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       selected papers from the first Semantic web working symposium

Edited by Isabel Cruz, Stefan Decker, Jérôme Euzenat, and Deborah McGuinness
Volume 75 in the Frontiers in artificial intelligence and applications series,
IOS press, Amsterdam (NL), 2002
300pp., hardcover, ISBN: 1 58603 255 0 (IOS press)

The World Wide Web has been the main source of an important shift in 
the way people get information and order services. However, the 
current Web is aimed at people only. The Semantic Web is a Web 
defined and linked in a way that it can be used by machines not just 
for display purposes, but also for automation, integration and reuse 
of data across various applications. Facilities and technologies to 
put machine understandable data on the Web are rapidly becoming a 
high priority for many communities.

In order for computers to provide more help to people, the Semantic 
Web augments the current Web with formalized knowledge and data that 
can be processed by computers. It thus needs a language for 
expressing knowledge. This knowledge is used to describe the content 
of information sources, through ontologies, and the condition of 
operation of Web services. One of the challenges of the current 
Semantic Web development is the design of a framework that allows 
these resources to interoperate.

This book presents the state of the art in the development of the 
principles and technologies that will allow for the Semantic Web to 
become a reality. It contains revised versions of a selection of 
papers presented at the International Semantic Web Working Symposium 
that address the issues of languages, ontologies, services, and 
interoperability.

web page: http://www.inrialpes.fr/exmo/papers/emerging/
online ordering: http://www.iospress.nl/site/html/boek-1381825766.html

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