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Spinning the Semantic Web

Bringing the World Wide Web To Its Full Potential

by Dieter Fensel, James Hendler, Henry Lieberman and Wolfgang Wahlster

		Publisher: MIT Press Pub. Date: 2003 ISBN: 9780262062329 No. pages: 479 Category: Industries

In this summary you will learn

Why it seems increasingly difficult to extract specific information from the World Wide Web
How the Semantic Web could manage data better
What changes in programming language and standards would be involved

Why you should read Spinning the Semantic Web

This book is relevant to all those who suspect "WWW" stands for "World Wide Wait." If you don’t understand the Internet’s shortcomings, just type "antidisestablishmentarianism" into the Google search engine and try to make sense of the 5,890 returns you get. Currently, there are three billion pages of information on the Internet, but within the next year that number will double. The question is how to manage the data while still increasing the functionality of the Web, continuing its transformation from a place where you "find something" to a place where you "do something." To accomplish those tasks, you have to go beyond "meta-tags" - those invisible headlines that tell search engines what any given page is really all about. This volume outlines the Semantic Web approach, which offers answers to those questions. A word of warning: this somewhat technical book will be of greatest interest to programmers, Web designers, specialists and motivated visionaries. getAbstract.com recommends it highly - if you fit into one of those categories.

About the Authors

Dieter Fensel is an associate professor of mathematics and computer science at the University of Amsterdam. Henry Lieberman is a research scientist at the MIT Media Laboratory. James Hendler is director of Semantic Web and agent technology at the University of Maryland Information and Network Dynamics Laboratory. Wolfgang Wahlster is director and CEO of the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence, and a professor of Computer Science at the University of Saarbrucken.

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