Digital Directions: The Semantic Web
As the vision unfolds, software still can’t surf.
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Tim Berners-Lee, director of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), outlined a strategy for the future of the Web in a series of papers and articles published between 1998 and 2001. He observed that while there was a wealth of information available for people to explore on the Web, computers had difficulty extracting information from it. The Web consists largely of free-form text, and computers have great difficulty understanding human language. While search engines can index the Web, a human being is required to interpret the search results. You may be able to surf the Web, but your computer can’t. The value of the World Wide Web is significantly compromised, Berners-Lee argued, without the ability for systems to interpret its content.
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