Shivalingaiah, D; Naik, Umesha(INFLIBNET Center, February 25, 2009)
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Abstract:
The WWW is the largest single information resource humanity. Unfortunately, despite its dependence
on computers to operate at all, most of the information is only understandable by humans and not by
computers. While computers can use the syntax of HTML documents to display in a web browser,
Web computers can’t understand the content the semantics. Human beings are capable of using the
Web to carry out tasks such as finding the information. However, a computer cannot accomplish the
same tasks without human direction because web pages are designed to be read by public, not
machines. The semantic web is a vision of information that is understandable by computers, so that
public can perform more of the tedious work involved in finding, sharing and combining information
on the web. The paper emphasizes the semantic tools available.