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June 01, 2001The Semantic WebIn "The Semantic Web," by Tim Berners-Lee, James Hendler and Ora Lassila (Scientific American 284(5), May 2001, pp. 35-43) -- how XML systems of tagging content for its meaning can be (will be?) extended publicly via ontologies that would work much as CSS does today -- publicly readable files would define the usage of each tag for a given industry or site. Agents could then use these definitions (see Resource Description Framework, or RDF, in the article) in complex multi-site searches and comparisons. If, for example, all physical therapy providers used the same ontology (supplied by an association of physical therapists, say), then all searches for a physical therapy provider would compare the same kinds of data for services, fees, locations, office hours, etc. This makes sense -- in a way that all the hype about XML tagging to date has NOT. The use of a public ontology "style sheet" is the crucial component. Comments
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