Spinning the Semantic Web

Bringing the World Wide Web to Its Full Potential

MIT Press

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Fensel, Dieter

Hendler, James A.

Lieberman, Henry

Wahlster, Wolfgang

Weitere Mitwirkende

Berners-Lee, Tim

Fachgebiete

• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Digital Lifestyle Internet, E-Mail, Social Media
• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Informatik

Über Autor(innen)

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

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

Lieberman, Henry
Henry Lieberman is Research Scientist at the MIT Media Laboratory.

Wahlster, Wolfgang
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.