A Framework for Web Science

Date: September 2006

Author: Tim Berners-Lee, Wendy Hall,James A. Hendler, Kieron O’Hara,Nigel Shadbolt and Daniel J. Weitzner

 

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Semantic web is an attempt to bring together data accross the Web so as to create a vast database transcending its components, which makes possible applications that infer across heterogeneous data.

 

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All that, while still preserving the relation between the invariants of the Web experience and the particular context of an individual’s use that empower him or her to claim a corner of cyberspace and begin to use it as an extension of personal space. Given that, on the Web, the relevant information is likely to be highly distributed and dynamic, personalisation is expected to be one of the big gains of the Semantic Web, which is pre-eminently a structure that allows reasoning over multiple and distributed data sources.

 

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