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Figure: The Semantic Web Layer Cake (Berners-Lee, 2000).

The Semantic Web is an extension of the current web.

  1. It aims to give information a well-defined meaning, thereby creating a pathway for machine-to-machine communication and automated serives based on descriptions of semantics.

  2. XML files and web resources capture objects and classes.

  3. RDF describes relationships between objects and classes.

  4. Ontologies provide a formal conceptualization (semantic representation) of a particular domain shared by a group of people.

  5. Ontology-based applications will be built on top of the Semantic Web infrastructure (i.e., XML, RDF and ontologies)

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