"Semantic Web," or semantic webs?
October 20, 2003
Microsoft's Catherine Marshall and Texas A&M's Frank Shipman have written one of the more cogent assessments to date of the great fuzz-ball of hyperbole that has become "The Semantic Web":
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What we are left with then is the Semantic Web's potential in the realm of the particular, especially its ability to weave together specific resources well motivated by business ... or institutionally-supported digital libraries... In these cases, resources may be available to perform the kinds of knowledge engineering, cataloging, and librarianship that is called for.
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It may be that - at least in the short term - that there are many semantic webs rather than The Semantic Web; they may - even in the long term - take us where we need to go.
File under: Semantic Web
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