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The Semantic Web standards follow the design principles of the Web in order to allow the growth of a planet-wide collection of semantically-rich data. The key element of this design is the use of Web addresses (URIs) to name things. Because the meaning of a term in a language without central control becomes established by its consistent use to achieve the same effect, and URIs are used around the World to access web pages, the Web is used to establish globally-shared meaning for URIs in the Semantic Web. (This is what people mean when they say RDF URIs are “grounded” in the Web.)
As with the Web in general, this approach allows the Semantic Web to grow and evolve without any central control or authority, but while still maintaining as much consistency and authorial control as needed for particular applications or particular enterprises. The techniques for doing all this are still evolving, but ideally whenever anyone sees a Semantic Web URI they can use it in their browser and see authoritative documentation about its use. Moreover, whenever some software encounters a URI in a Semantic Web context, it can dereference it and find an ontology which precisely specifies how the term is related to other terms. The software may thus learn and exploit new terms which are synonymous with terms it already knows, or related in more complex and useful (but logically precise) ways.
All this results in the ability to find and correctly merge data from multiple sources, sometimes even when they are provided with different ontologies.
“In the Semantic Web, it is not the Semantic which is new, it is the Web which is new” Chris Welty, IBM
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The Semantic Web standards follow the design principles of the Web in order to allow the growth of a planet-wide collection of semantically-rich data. The key element of this design is the use of Web addresses (URIs) to name things. Because the meaning of a term in a language without central control becomes established by its consistent use to achieve the same effect, and URIs are used around the World to access web pages, the Web is used to establish globally-shared meaning for URIs in the Semantic Web. (This is what people mean when they say RDF URIs are “grounded” in the Web.)
As with the Web in general, this approach allows the Semantic Web to grow and evolve without any central control or authority, but while still maintaining as much consistency and authorial control as needed for particular applications or particular enterprises. The techniques for doing all this are still evolving, but ideally whenever anyone sees a Semantic Web URI they can use it in their browser and see authoritative documentation about its use. Moreover, whenever some software encounters a URI in a Semantic Web context, it can dereference it and find an ontology which precisely specifies how the term is related to other terms. The software may thus learn and exploit new terms which are synonymous with terms it already knows, or related in more complex and useful (but logically precise) ways.
All this results in the ability to find and correctly merge data from multiple sources, sometimes even when they are provided with different ontologies.
“In the Semantic Web, it is not the Semantic which is new, it is the Web which is new” Chris Welty, IBM
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