Semantic web

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The semantic web (SW) is an extension, in progress, to the World Wide Web (WWW), designed to allow software processes, in particular artificial agents, as well as human readers, to acquire, share, and reason about information. Whereas the WWW consists largely of documents, which are generally created for human consumption, the SW will be a web of data, making them more amenable for computers to process.[1] The data will be processed by computer via semantic theories for interpreting the symbols (hence: semantic web). In any particular application, the semantic theory will connect terms within a distributed document set logically, and thereby aid interoperability.

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O’Hara, K., & Hall, W. (2011). Semantic web. In Understanding Information Retrieval Systems: Management, Types, and Standards (pp. 325–343). CRC Press. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429425240-169

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