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1. Slide 1:The semantic web or how I learned to stop worrying and love metadata… Richard Ashby, communications team July 2008 r.ashby@leeds.ac.uk www.leeds.ac.uk/comms
2. Slide 2:The semantic web “I have a dream for the Web [in which computers] become capable of analyzing all the data on the Web – the content, links, and transactions between people and computers. A ‘Semantic Web’, which should make this possible, has yet to emerge, but when it does, the day-to-day mechanisms of trade, bureaucracy and our daily lives will be handled by machines talking to machines. The ‘intelligent agents’ people have touted for ages will finally materialize.” Sir Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web 1999 Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic_Web
3. Slide 3:The semantic web Mostly flat information Some databases but