3.7: Semantic Web Technologies

Support Semantic Web technologies.

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Semantic Web technologies can provide a huge development in the way the Internet is thought and used. Take for instance, the process of booking a flight with current technologies: access a search engine to locate a couple of online travel agencies access some of them using a Web browser, and using their HTML Web interfaces, gain access to the information, compare the results, and book the flight. If all the information could be stored in a single relational database, the task could be automated with a series of SQL queries. However, given the distributed nature of the Internet, this kind of automatization is not directly possible with current technologies. Semantic Web technologies could provide a means of implementing such a solution in the Internet space. The Semantic Web provides a common framework that allows data to be shared and reused across application, enterprise, and community boundaries [SW-ACT] and there are several technologies [SW-FAQ] that allow to describe, model and query these data.

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