Spinning the Semantic Web: Bringing the World Wide Web to Its Full Potential

Dieter Fensel, Wolfgang Wahlster, Henry Lieberman, James Hen

ISBN 10: 0262062321 / ISBN 13: 9780262062329

Published by The MIT Press, 2002

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Spinning the Semantic Web: Bringing the World Wide Web to Its Full Potential
• Publisher: The MIT Press
• Publication Date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0262062321
• ISBN 13: 9780262062329
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Good
• Book Type: book

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Synopsis

As the World Wide Web continues to expand, it becomes increasingly difficult for users to obtain information efficiently. Because most search engines read format languages such as HTML or SGML, search results reflect formatting tags more than actual page content, which is expressed in natural language. Spinning the Semantic Web describes an exciting new type of hierarchy and standardization that will replace the current "web of links" with a "web of meaning." Using a flexible set of languages and tools, the Semantic Web will make all available information -- display elements, metadata, services, images, and especially content -- accessible. The result will be an immense repository of information accessible for a wide range of new applications.This first handbook for the Semantic Web covers, among other topics, software agents that can negotiate and collect information, markup languages that can tag many more types of information in a document, and knowledge systems that enable machines to read Web pages and determine their reliability. The truly interdisciplinary Semantic Web combines aspects of artificial intelligence, markup languages, natural language processing, information retrieval, knowledge representation, intelligent agents, and databases.

About the Authors

Dieter Fensel is Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science at the University of Innsbruck, Austria

James Hendler is Director of Semantic Web and Agent Technology, Maryland Information and Network Dynamics Laboratory, University of Maryland.

Henry Lieberman is Research Scientist at the MIT Media Laboratory.

Wolfgang Wahlster is Director and CEO of the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence and Professor of Computer Science at the Universität des Saarlandes, Saarbrücken.