Some Ideas Concerning the Semantic Web

1998年,WWW协会发起了一个创新性研究,该研究致力于:为WEB提供语义和从WEB实施知识抽取.语义W eb是WEB创始人Tim Berners-Lee对WEB发展的愿景.在可扩展标记语言XML、资源描述框架RDF、本体互换语言OIL和其他新出现的标准的帮助下,语义Web有可能对已经存在的Web数据提供更多的结构和意义.这将会引导WWW发展到一个新的全球性网络:语义Web在这个网络上可以发现很多有效的信息.很明显,语义Web的实现将会对下一代的数字图书馆产生巨大的影响.

In 1998 the World -Wide Web Consortium (W3C) inaugurated a research initiative centred on the idea of providing semantics for and facilitating the extraction of knowledge from the WWW. The Semantic Web is a vision of Tim Berners - Lee, the creator of the WWW. With the help of XML, RDF, OIL and other emergent standards it will be possible to give more structure and meaning to existing web data. This will lead to a universal network where all available information can effectively be found: the semantic web. Clearly, the realisation of the semantic web will have a huge influence on the way digital libraries will be conceived.