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Semantic Web Metadata

by Dan Corwin, 06/09/08
As the link above illustrates, XML metadata has many uses. It foreshadows a knowledge-based future web, and the fast emerging standards below are actually what will enable it. Keep your own goals bounded, and even in today's early forms they offer you vastly smarter, more effective enterprise web apps:

Resources - W3C Standards on RDF
Gentle Intro - Overview of RDF technology
Topic Maps - Modeling associations in XTM
Business case - Moving relations to the web
W3C Ontologies - OWL is flapping its wings
CTM Ontology - Conceptual Graphs in XTM, RDF
IEEE's SUO - Seeking standard base concepts
Roadmaps - Multiple Viewpoints at DARPA
Web Services - Is modeling them the killer app?
Recent News - Semantic Web Activity News
HCLSIG List - on Healthcare & Life Science users


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