By Jeremy J. Carroll, MultiLingual Computing and
Technology
The author gives a brief introduction to the
Semantic Web and describes difficulties -- and occasionally
solutions -- related to building multilingual Semantic Web sites
and applications. The initial drivers for the Semantic Web came
from metadata about web pages. Who wrote it?
When? Who owns the copyright? And so on.
Conveying such metadata requires agreement about the key terms such
as author and date. This agreement has been reached by the Dublin
Core community. For example, they have an agreed definition for the
term creator, generalizing author for use in metadata records. The
Semantic Web does not, however, draw a sharp distinction between
metadata about the page and data contained within the page. In both
cases, the idea is to provide sufficient structure around the data
to turn it into information and to connect the concepts used to
express such information with concepts used by others so that this
information can become knowledge that can be acted upon.
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See also W3C Semantic Web:
http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/